Source Control Using Atlassian Bitbucket

What is Bitbucket?

Bitbucket is a web based hosting service that distributes source code and development projects. They are offering free accounts for up to five members in a single team and we can create an unlimited number of private repositories. We can upload the source code from GitHub and Visual Studio.

Features

• Pull requests with code reviews and comments
• Merge code checks
• Tracking
• Wikis
• More add-ons
• Team monitoring

Step 1

Create new account on Atlassian Bitbucket site from here. For signing up, you can use a social network also. After login page, it should appear like the below picture.

Step 2

Create your new project team from navigation header -

Teams> Create Teams.

Add team members using Bitbucket username or mail address and manage the groups.

Step 3

Create your new projects from navigation header

Projects> Create project.

Select your team or account user name on Owner List. This project can be accessed only by your team. For that, click privacy check.

Step 4

Create your new repository on navigation header -

Repositories> Create repository.

Make sure to select repository owner and project in the list. If you need more features, click “Advanced settings” and it should expand the page like below picture.

Once you have checked the Issue tracking checkbox, if there are any issues on developing project stage, you can follow the team member suggestion and comments. It may reduce the dependency on external tracking tools.

Step 5

If you have already build the source code in GitHub, click import repository or you may goes on to navigation header -

Repositories> Import repository