| URL | bitbucket.org |
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| Slogan | We're here to serve. |
| Commercial? | Yes |
| Type of site | collaborative revision control |
| Registration | OpenID |
| Available language(s) | English |
| Owner | Atlassian |
| Launched | 2008 |
| Current status | online |
Bitbucket is a web-based hosting service for projects that use either the Mercurial or Git revision control systems. Bitbucket offers both commercial plans and free accounts. It offers free accounts with unlimited numbers of private repositories (which can have up to five users in the case of free accounts) as of September 2010[update],[1] Private repositories are not shown on profile pages - if a user has only private repositories, the website will claim "This user has no repositories". The service is written in Python.[2]
It is similar to GitHub, which uses only Git. In a 2008 blog post, Bruce Eckel compared Bitbucket favorably to Launchpad,[3] which uses Bazaar.
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Bitbucket was previously an independent startup. On September 29th, 2010, Bitbucket was acquired by VC-funded Atlassian.[4] Initially, Bitbucket only offered hosting support for Mercurial projects. On October 3rd, 2011, Bitbucket officially announced support for Git hosting.[5]
The symbol on the sticker on the bucket is the alchemical and planetary symbol for Mercury, and refers to Bitbucket hosting Mercurial repositories. The contents of the blue bucket is mercury metal.
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