Introduction to BitBucket

BitBucket is more than just a repository hosting service; it is a complete DevOps solution. It allows developers to manage their source code repositories, collaborate with team members, and automate the software development lifecycle from a single platform. BitBucket supports both Git and Mercurial, although it is primarily used with Git in recent times.

Creating Your BitBucket account

Creating an account on BitBucket is very easy. One can start by following the given steps:

Step 1: Visit bitbucket.org and sign up. Enter your email account, name and password. Verify your email by clicking on the link given in your inbox. Step 2: After completing the verification, you have to create a unique username for BitBucket Cloud. Step 3: Create your first repository or import a repository. You can add a readme file by clicking on the checkbox (With a template or with a tutorial). Then click on Create Repository. Now you can add new files, manage notifications, download repository, share repository and a lot more.

Features of BitBucket

• Code Review System Bitbucket has a super-fast code review system that helps the developers and the reviewers to review the pull request in very less time.
• Powerful JIRA Integration JIRA is one of the best tools to track bugs within the code. This tool can easily integrate Bitbucket and JIRA.
• In-line Discussion In-line Discussion can be used to add inline comments and threaded conversations within the code snippet. Thus, making the reviewers and developers interactions better.
• BitBucket Cloud & Server BitBucket provides two different services as per the need of the users. If your team size is small (1-5) then you can opt for Bitbucket cloud or you can opt for BitBucket Server for big teams.
• Built-In Issue Tracker Issues can be easily tracked in BitBucket with it's Built-in system. This tracker is flexible, easy to use and has a number of configurable fields like version, milestone, etc.
• BitBucket Interface BitBucket interface is quite simple to use and one can easily search for repositories, pull requests, branches, usernames, other features of the tools, etc.

Advantages of BitBucket

• Query Management System: The query management system provided in BitBucket makes the work easy by providing an integrated system.
• Authentication via Github: BitBucket allows the user to authenticate and add social media via Github.
• Integrated JIRA Tool: BitBucket also supports BUg tracking tool JIRA. It automatically detects bugs in the code and updates the information when a new commit is performed.
• Import Repositories: We can also import old repositories from third-party services.
• Pricing: BitBucket is free for small teams (0-5). You can use an unlimited number of free private repositories. The students and teachers can also get the free benefits of BitBucket.

Disadvantages of BitBucket

• BitBucket doesn't have the same simplified PR management tools as other competitors.
• The private repositories are free for a team of 1 to 5 members. If the team is larger than 5, you have to pay for each additional team member.
• Sometimes integrated applications like SourceTree perform strange errors, causing loss of time.
• Bitbucket does not capture the details about the force push. There should be some way to capture the details of force push as force push deletes the history.
• There are some search-related issues when finding a particular file. First, you need to launch the repository and find it locally. It's a bit long process.