Bitbucket: a developer's guide

Today I am going to start with one more repository platform, a "Bitbucket". Let's get started;

Introduction to Bitbucket:

Bitbucket is a Git-based web-hosting repository that was first developed by the Atlassian company. Bitbucket offers free account subscriptions as well as commercial plans. The main functions of Bitbucket include are managing source code repositories, collaborating with teams, and completing a guide to code development workflow. It also supports the software development life cycle process, and there are various Bitbucket tools available they are; Bitbucket cloud manager, Bitbucket data center, and Bitbucket Server. The major differences between the Bitbucket and Git are as follows; 

Git is a distributed version control repository management platform whereas Bitbucket is a web-based version control repository management platform. Each project saved state is known as “version”.  Bitbucket repository tool was first developed by Jesper Noehr in 2008. 

Key features of Bitbucket: 

The Bitbucket platform supports the following features they are;

• Bitbucket helps to pull the requests with code review and comments given by the users or developers.
• Bitbucket consists of pipelines and offers a continuous delivery service.
• User login into the Bitbucket requires a two-step verification process.
• Bitbucket offers IP (internet port) whitelisting.
• Merge checks are also available.
• Bitbucket provides a code check analysis feature.
• It also provides a larger data storage capacity to store Git files.
• Documentation is also possible that includes automatically rendered README files in a Markdown file format.
• Issue tracking is also possible with Bitbucket.
• Bitbucket enables users to the creation of Wikis.
• Add-on and integration features are also available with Bitbucket.
• Bitbucket helps REST APIs to build third-party web applications which are used by any programming language.
• The snippet feature in BitBucket allows developers to share the code files or segments with external users.
• Offers smart mirroring features.

Advantages of Bitbucket:

The following are the few advantages of Bitbucket;

• Bitbucket is a more flexible platform than Github:

Bitbucket comes up with a few built-in features, they allow users to create their own workflow. Whereas Github also consists of valuable features but when compared with Bitbucket in terms of flexibility, Bitbucket stands first. 

 Bitbucket allows users to import their source code files from various sources such as Git, Google Code, Source Forge, Code Plex, and SVN. 

• Bitbucket has better pricing than Github or Gitlab:

Bitbucket subscription is free for up to 5 users. This subscription offers benefits like unlimited private repository usage, and in a few cases, you can access the public repository it depends on the file size and source code.

• Bitbucket is a trustworthy platform:

Most of the engineers prefer to use the Github platform because of its immense advantages and its popularity over the years. But Bitbucket is also a user-friendly repository and offers easy-to-use features. 

•    Bitbucket offers semantic search option:

  As we know that little things always matter like that Bitbucket offers semantic search to query the data, Crawl the syntax to find the definition rather than just giving the variable names.   

• Bitbucket has powerful JIRA integration benefits:

Bitbucket is a product of Atlassian company, JIRA is also an Atlassian product. But JIRA has a feature of bug tracking/ issue tracking. Bitbucket integrates with the JIRA tool if you wish to use both the tools together, you need to set the code commit option to update the issues on JIRA automatically. 

    Disadvantages of Bitbucket:

The following are the disadvantages of Bitbucket;

• Issue tracking: Looks like the Bitbucket platform does not build to handle issue tracking while software project development.
• Lack of third-party support: You can see there are a lot of third-party vendors who are unable to integrate with Bitbucket even if they offer the Github kind of integration. This is one of the biggest drawbacks of the Bitbucket. 
•  The configuration seems not easy sometimes like with other tools.
• Bitbucket creates the pipeline within the applications.

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