For a while I was a bit worried that GitHub had just ran away with the prize and no one else was bothering. It is pretty obvious that Google isn't interested in improving Google Code and that Sourceforge hasn't aged a day (that's not really fair, but it feels like it).<p>I think there is still a chance for BitBucket to make a splash, but I think its going to be hard to win anymore. That's fine, 2nd place makes a lot of money too (not counting places 1-10 for enterprise source control, which basically print money, and of which GitHub is chasing too).
To the bitbucket team:<p>Please keep on doing what you are doing. Your service and this new redesign is awesome, and my team and myself wouldn't be where we are without you.<p>We're a small team of young developers working on a startup for the past few months. We haven't launched yet so we're obviously not profitable, but the fact that you've enabled us to make it as far as we have also ensures that when we are in a position to pay for software development tools they will come from a brand we know, trust, and love: Atlassian.<p>Also, you should update the Atlassian Store with t-shirts and other swag.<p>Once again, great job, thank you, and keep on keepin' on.
I know its not the elephant in the managed source code hosting space, but I like BitBucket better then Github. I like the option to use Mercerial for projects and I like the way they ask me to pay for things ( pay for private shared repositories ).
For me the experience of managing open source repositories gets worse with recent bitbucket updates to the point that I'm in process of moving my open-source to github.<p>How one is supposed to find what have bitbucketer done? Visit e.g. Ian Bicking's account: <a href="https://bitbucket.org/ianb" rel="nofollow">https://bitbucket.org/ianb</a> . Is it easy to find out why are so many people following Ian? What repositories are interesting? "bbdocs" with 4 followers? From the first page of Ian's repositories I know "dozer", did Ian wrote it? Click. Oh, it's an outdated fork.<p>Just compare the direction Github took at its recent redesign. GitHub folks made user profiles act like resume. The repositories are visually big, it is clear what repositories are popular, what repos are active, etc. It is also clear what a person is into: repositories are sorted by 'last modified' date. There is "Explore" section with trending repos (bitbucket's Explore is a joke) and so on.<p>Bitbucket instead removed follower counts and fork counts from the repositories list; repositories are sorted alphabetically now; there is no way to see who the user follows or who user is followed by.<p>I was missing important ticket updates at bitbucket several times because the newsfeed is not "infinite"; "Inbox" messages count stops working sometimes, etc.<p>There are things bitbucket is better at: e.g. github links to source code lines are awful (they don't contain changeset information in URL by default and so easily become outdated); there is no way to specify repo language in github (one of my recent Python repos was in a "Top followed this week" for a C language, that's great of course but..)<p>Don't get me wrong, bitbucket becomes nicer and nicer, I'm still a heavy bitbucket user and we use a paid account at work; but it seems that the open source support (code discovery and presentation) is not their priority right now, or at least they act so.
I'm having trouble thinking of reasons why bitbucket is used so much less than github - or at least why it seems that way.<p>It's looking pretty damn good to me right now!
The design is very clean and appealing. I'm glad to see they're still investing significant effort. I want to see Bitbucket get more visibility and success.<p>I prefer Mercurial. Among other things, it has better cross platform support. Bitbucket added Git a while ago. I wish Github would add Mercurial.<p>Bitbucket also offers unlimited private repos. That means I only use Github for OSS projects. I use Bitbucket for everthing else. Consequently, I always recommend them to friends and companies looking for hosted repos.
I wrote a blog post on BitBucket workflow (obviously now it's outdated) and the BitBucket team sent me a free tshirt!<p><a href="http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/blog/1267/entry-3659-visual-studio-2010-mercurial-bitbucket-complete-workflow-tutorial/" rel="nofollow">http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/blog/1267/entry-3659-visua...</a><p>I love their website and how you can create free private repos. Good business practice: Unlimited private projects, limited contributers on private projects. Win-win<p>Github is just greedy.
Yay! Github's UI has been slowly getting worse over the last year, and their paid account options are terrible (limits on the <i>number</i> of private repositories, as opposed to the disk space). I've been a paying company for years and years, but I recently scaled back from four paying accounts to one.<p>I don't want to have to organize my private git repositories around GitHub's idiotic account restrictions, so I'm going to give BitBucket a try with some personal repos and see if the UI works for me. If it does, you've got a new customer. :D
I generally version all the things, and end up with lots of small private repos. Bitbucket's pricing model is perfect for hosting that kind of thing. Really liking the new UI.
Awesome, I think this just heavily strengthened the future of Mercurial. I'm not trying to start any version control wars here, but personally, I found Mercurial to be the most "intuitive" approach (unlike Git/SVN, but again, that's <i>my</i> opinion).<p>I've extensively used Bitbucket in the past, especially for personal projects. I love what I see here, and will continue to use the service as such. Long live Bitbucket! :)
Lovely work. From peeping the source, looks like an interesting hybrid use of Backbone.js as well. If you're interested in getting the new Bitbucket listed on the Backbone homepage, just email me a brief paragraph, and I can set it up.
The new design is really great and in many ways better than GitHub’s. Now people unfamiliar with the services might actually be able to find a download button for once.<p>Another place where GitHub is really dropping the ball is in the social aspect of their service with <i>terrible</i> activity feeds I can’t believe anyone actually uses. I wrote a rant about it here: <a href="http://pygm.us/uGhNdcGU" rel="nofollow">http://pygm.us/uGhNdcGU</a>.<p>There are many, many ways Bitbucket can beat—and beats—GitHub, so this new design makes me a lot more optimistic about the continuing competition between the two and the improvements this will result in on both sides.<p>I will say that I’m not sure whether I like a grey as dark as the one you use in your new design, though. :)
A lot of people here are commenting on GitHub being 'overpriced' or 'greedy.' TPW did an interview a while ago that has insight into why their pricing structure is the way it is. It's a pretty interesting read:<p><a href="http://mixergy.com/tom-preston-werner-github-interview/" rel="nofollow">http://mixergy.com/tom-preston-werner-github-interview/</a><p>(search for 'which metrics') to skip to the pricing part).<p>Money quote: "That’s like buying a car based on how much it weighs. It’s irrelevant."<p>I may be biased since GitHub does a lot to foster the developer community in my area (I nabbed a sweet contracting gig at one of their drinkups), but I'm perfectly happy with their pricing.
The redesigned commits view is 100 times better than Github's ever was. <a href="http://cl.ly/image/300S2R3q2x0N" rel="nofollow">http://cl.ly/image/300S2R3q2x0N</a><p>So much more info, and even a graph like in gitx.
A few months ago, I convinced my startup to try bitbucket because of the free private repos. Over the course of a month or two, there were multiple times that I could not collaborate with my teammate because bitbucket was unreachable. We have since switched to github, pay a small fee per month, and have never had this issue.<p>How is everyone else's up-time experiences in the past few months? I'm setting up a few personal projects and would like to give them another shot if they've improved that one aspect.<p>I'm not affiliated with either company.
Surprised to not see GitLab mentioned here. GitLab is FOSS and already has almost all of these features, allowing me to host multiple private repos on a single cheap VPS. That is exactly why I chose it over Bitbucket or Github.<p>If Bitbucket wants to stay competitive, I think this is the least they can do -- unfortunately I don't see any <i>innovation</i> that puts them ahead of the other players in the market.
Switching markup from Creole to Markdown is very good news, and the preview being back in e.g. issues comments is a good thing as well.<p>Though I'd prefer the preview to be live...<p>The readme taking center stage in the "overview" page is nice. Though getting it again in the "source" page is weird
It's hilarious how difficult it is to get a non-programmer on Windows setup on Bitbucket (to clone a repo and then push a commit).<p>I don't blame this on Bitbucket, I blame the state of Windows Git applications.<p>My friend who is an artist (pretty technical too but he's not a programmer and never deals with SSH) is going to do some art for me for a game project I have in Bitbucket. I added him to my repo and told him to download Gitextensions, which seems to be, arguably, the best free graphical git app for Windows.<p>So, he downloaded it and set it up but when he started it up for the first time there was no option to clone from a source URL other than from Github.<p>First you have to figure out that you need to setup your SSH key and then clone the SSH url. I know that, but a non-programmer with no experience using git before would probably have zero clue.<p>You have to then setup your SSH key using Putty, and I'm sure we all know how awesome it is that SSH keys generated with Putty are in a different format than SSH keys generated with ssh-keygen, so pasting your public key into the Bitbucket site leads to nothing but problems. You have to erase some stuff, add "ssh-rsa" to the front, remove the newlines, etc. You can't just copy and paste the whole thing. If you aren't experienced with SSH keys you will not be able to figure it out. The bitbucket docs for this step assume you have an SSH key generated from ssh-keygen and not from putty, so they are of no help.<p>Once you get your ssh key straightened out then it's not too bad.<p>In short, it sucks. If Bitbucket wants to capture people other than programmers they need a better Windows app. For this reason alone I would be tempted to use Github instead since they have a dedicated Windows app.<p>Gitextensions is open source too so they it doesn't seem like it would be that difficult to just add support for Bitbucket just like they have for Github.<p>I've used SmartGit for Windows too but I'm not a fan of their products and I was looking for something free.<p>Does anyone have suggestions for getting non-programmers setup on Windows?
Looks great and the home page is very aesthetically pleasing, but it appears to lack any links to actual, in-use repositories.<p>If you look at Github's home page, the top half of the page is full of links to organisation pages and popular repositories (jQuery, rails, etc.) and there's a prominent "Explore GitHub" link with trending repos, etc.<p>BitBucket's home page looks like it's demoing a program they want to sell: loads of examples of how it looks and who uses it, but no links to an actual, well used repository. I had to Google for an example repository to examine since I much prefer to actually play with it rather than be told how it works.
For students: you can get bitbucket's top tier (basically unlimited everything) for free with your *.edu email address:<p><a href="http://www.atlassian.com/software/views/bitbucket-academic-license.jsp" rel="nofollow">http://www.atlassian.com/software/views/bitbucket-academic-l...</a>
Just canceled my GitHub private subscription. I only recently found out a few weeks ago that Bitbucket offers git access; the last time I used them, it was Hg-only. Really happy to be using Atlassian products again, and I love the new redesign. Awesome stuff!
To the bitbucket team - one quick feedback.<p>Many of us, use github profile pages as resumes. Your redesign focus has been towards "repository landing pages" rather than user "user landing pages".<p>E.g. take a look at <a href="https://bitbucket.org/basho" rel="nofollow">https://bitbucket.org/basho</a> vs <a href="https://github.com/basho" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/basho</a>
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<a href="https://bitbucket.org/basho/riak-0.9.2" rel="nofollow">https://bitbucket.org/basho/riak-0.9.2</a> vs <a href="https://github.com/basho/riak" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/basho/riak</a> .<p>Please make the user pages a little richer and I shall be infinitely grateful. While we are on that, could you use a better Markdown parser please ?
I like the new look in general, but one drawback is pretty clear. The readme is now narrow and can't expand. I like narrow columns in general, but now all of my <pre> text is much too wide and showing scrollbars. Lots of work ahead. :(<p>I also see there is no whitespace around my h3s and not much around h1s, and h2s. Looks quite cramped. Still nicer on the whole. I guess I can try to hack in some line breaks manually.
It was very well said by gwf: This is a race to the bottom in terms of sustainable pricing. I love the free plan but who knows how it'll play long term.
This is an amazing redesign. I love Bitbucket for its support for Hg and Git, and it has free private repos. Always loved using it, now I have more and more reason to use it every day. I might move back to it for my open-source stuff, and just push stuff to github as a side thing. Or setup a hook on Bitbucket to just push for me.
Another great thing about bitbucket is that the basic code which handles the mercurial integration has been published as a Django application (on bitbucket of course). This has allowed us to create our own specialised code hosting platform. ( <a href="http://mbed.org/code/" rel="nofollow">http://mbed.org/code/</a> )
I'm loving all the various changes, but one thing I miss is the line in the footer that used to proudly proclaim the version/build of the various pieces of software (e.g., Django, piston, some oauth thing) that bitbucket runs on. Don't see it as a comment in the source either - was that moved somewhere else?
Am I the only one who couldn't find a easy way to explore all public projects hosted at Bitbucket?<p>(<a href="https://bitbucket.org/explore" rel="nofollow">https://bitbucket.org/explore</a>) redirects to (<a href="https://bitbucket.org/repo/all" rel="nofollow">https://bitbucket.org/repo/all</a>)
So how do I browse projects that are hosted on BitBucket? How can I search for projects by language?<p>All I see on the main page are screenshots and signup links. Why should I sign up if I can't even test drive the site by browsing existing projects?<p>Would be nice to have an "Explore" feature similar to GitHub.
Looks great. I've been using Bitbucket for a while and I've always hoped they redesigned their website. Now with the pull requests and all, it looks more usable. Although I find GitHub more beautiful and usable, I'd definitely recommend Bitbucket too.
Atlassian's business model is to draw in small companies with their $10 plan, and increase prices fast as the company grows. They're just following the same pricing model with Bitbucket. Free private repos for up to 5 users, paid accounts after that.
This is great. I continue to use bitbucket for all of my personal repos since they provide unlimited private repos for free. I would use github for my private repos but I have lot's of small repos that make private github cost prohibitive.
I never manage to figure out where is Bazaar and Launchpad in all this game...<p>every time I try to think of a more "friendly" git, it's Bzr that pops into my mind, not Hg, but... where does one "put it on the map" in the DVCS and related services world?
Yesterday I switched to Bitbucket after using Github for about a year.<p>Bitbucket is absolutely brilliant.<p>It's a really clean interface and the free private repos suit me perfectly.<p>Thanks for your work - a new customer here.<p>Only thing I'd add is the last commit details on folder names.
This interface looks great. I suggest that the landing page have several ways to get to prominent open source projects hosted on Bitbucket so people can easily see the live interface before signing up.
Have been using Bitbucket for over 9 months now and find it really as good as Github for the features I need.<p>The pricing is such a lifesaver for small companies or hobby programmers that want some private repos.
I've always disliked bitbucket, because the interface always seemed obtuse. This looks incredibly appealing! Well done, and I shall certainly be giving it a try (current, paying github user)
The old layout always makes me think that they don't give a damn to BitBucket. Seems that I was wrong. BitBucket is awesome and the new layout reflects this awesomeness
The thing that always bothered me about bitbucket (and sourceforge) is that the main page of any source code project should be the source code, not some overview page.
Choosing Bitbucket wasn't tough. I needed a private repo for the little sth (hobbyist) I was doing. Bitbucket gave it for free and there wasn't anything I missed from Github.<p>Oh, I forgot - I had started that in Mercurial, (/beginner/experiment/learning), though switched to Git later, and that was another huge reason.<p>I still have open repos on GitHub. I will either keep them mirrored at Bitbucket or might move altogether. Brining balance to the force is good :-)