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Congrats! Before GitHub had free private academic repos, I used Bitbucket and was really pleased. I'm out of school now, and I think I'll continue to use Bitbucket for private stuff. Great product!
Mercurial is a better tool than Git in almost every aspect. It's easy to learn and gets out of your way. I chose it over git a few years ago and sticked with it ever since and used Bitbucket to host most of my stuff. You don't get the community that Github has, but the hosting is great.
But it has nothing, NOTHING as good as git rebase -i
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Hmmm..how does synchronization work without a server or direct connection?
There's obviously a direct connection between the machines. Synchronization works exactly as it does when you synchronize with GitHub. It's just SSH.
I love bitbucket but I would like to be able to create clusters of related BitBucket projects, by language, tool, etc. Right now there isn't even a search feature, let alone any browse capability.
Justen - Bitbucket product manager
If you're wondering how they can offer free private repositories (awesome!), it's probably because they also offer a ton of other tightly integrated services such as Crucible, JIRA, etc. JIRA is pretty sweet to keep things in order.
Kidoteca uses Bitbucket, because for us our GIT serving is free :) Also I use their SourceTree GUI GIT tool, it is really nice too. Now this is looking like a ad for Atlassian, I should charge them :P
SourceTree is great and it has both a Mac and Windows version which makes it easy for me to switch between my Mac and other PCs around the house.
Github has the social aspects nailed down, but for small teams or personal projects, I don't hesitate to use bitbucket. Particularly now that you can use HipChat for free on small teams, hosting with bitbucket and managing your project exclusively through Atlassian is fantastic. I like issue management in bitbucket much more than github, as well (personal opinion, no great foundation here).
What does "social aspects" mean? Number of users and/or something else?
I don't have any experience with Bitbucket yet other than making an account and poking around with the interface, so I don't really have a frame of reference, but GitHub does seem to do the above things quite well in my relatively limited experience.
Github has the social aspects nailed down, but for small teams or personal projects, I don't hesitate to use bitbucket. Particularly now that you can use HipChat for free on small teams, hosting with bitbucket and managing your project exclusively through Atlassian is fantastic. I like issue management in bitbucket much more than github, as well (personal opinion, no great foundation here).
What does "social aspects" mean? Number of users and/or something else?
GitHub is much more organized around community and public feedback (search, stars, comments, etc.), than BitBucket. IMO, neither is claiming to be something they aren't. It just happens that for private repos and hosting where the focus isn't discoverability or community-driven, BitBucket seems like an easy choice. However, if you want to integrate with communities or popular open source groups/code - GitHub is probably a better option.
They're both great overlays for Git, it's just important to keep in mind where their core focus is. For GitHub, community is clearly a front-runner. BitBucket is more focused on private repo options and process management/tools.
I put some sweeping claims in this comment, but there's a lot of really good data in this post to supplement.
For company/private repos I always use bitbucket, for OSS I use github. The prices are right, it's flexible and you can have the comfort of serviced repos off your local. It is great for remote teams or getting companies to open up to remote access to repos.
I started using bitbucket when it was primarily python focused (github started ruby focused) and liked Mercurial since it was Python based and better supported on Windows back in the day for many windows clients. But they have definitely kept up and after Atlassian bought it they haven't dropped the ball. I also use SourceTree before they bought it and Atlassian knows good tools when they see them, bought that and opened it up (with a windows client in beta).
Congrats to bitbucket from a happy customer for a long time.
Bitbucket is an especially awesome resource for students. (Yes, I know GitHub offers free student accounts.) But the unlimited free private repositories makes it easy to back up tons of homework projects (as opposed to the small GitHub offering), without worrying about clogging your quota, or having your work available to the public.
I wouldn't be surprised if this has a lot to do with the latest growth. I've taken one or two Coursera courses (eg. [1]) where Bitbucket was specifically recommended for the private repositories. It would be a hassle to get counted as a student by Github without an edu email, and it would be too much for them to individually approve tens of thousands of people. [1] http://www.coursera.org/course/scicomp