Bitbucket is a web-based hosting service for projects that use either the Mercurial (since the origin) or Git (since october, 2011)revision control systems.

Bitbucket is written in Python using the Django web framework.

Features

Unlimited Private Repositories

• Host, manage, and share Git and Mercurial repositories in the cloud.

• Free, unlimited private repositories for up to 5 developers give teams the flexibility to grow and code without restrictions.

Work as a Team

• Built with small teams in mind.

• Consolidate user management.• invite members, and automatically share repositories with all your

teammates.

• Get your team working as one.

Pull Requests and Code Reviews• Pull requests make it easy to review changes on branch.

• Discuss the change, make modifications, get your colleague's approval and merge your changes with the push of a button.

• In-line comments let you hold discussions right in the source code.

Source Code Insight

• Filter your view by branch or tag to see what your teammates are working on.

• Use the commit history to track your project's activity.

• Or compare commits, files, branches or forks to see what's changed.

Comparison

Available version control systems

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SVN GNU

Bazaar

TFS Arch GIT Mercuri

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Bitbucket No No No No No Yes Yes

Assembla No Yes No No No Yes No

Github No Yes No No No Yes No

CodePlex No Yes No Yes No Yes Yes

Google

Code

No Yes No No No Yes Yes

Popularity

Users Projects

Bitbucket 1 000 000 93 661

Assembla +800 000 + 60 000

Github 5 200 000 10 900 000

CodePlex 151 782 36 472

Google Code Uknown + 250 000