Bitbucket.org Announces Git Support

[JWPlatt]

When we first laid out our repo plan during preparations for open source, Bitbucket.org was in that plan. It was not realized at first, but with some "inspiration" (that's a code word for constructive criticism) from the development community to get it in gear, we recently restructured the repos to include Bitbucket mirror synchronization as we had originally intended.

Our intentions were based upon these two important things: 1) Our choice of Atlassian tools for Foundry, and 2) The acquisition of Bitbucket by Atlassian in 2010. The Atlassian tools on Foundry provide an enterprise class code management system so that we can be ready for something big. Bitbucket gave us the kind of "social" collaboration development environment that is becoming popular and easy to use - a "Facebook" for software developers.

When Atlassian acquired Bitbucket, they wrote in their press release that they "will remain agnostic towards version control systems and will continue to support Subversion, CVS, Perforce, ClearCase, Mercurial and Git in its products." It is that statement from a well-established company with a quality product that gave us the faith to put our trust in the future of what Bitbucket was promising. Freedom of choice is a great asset and we liked where Bitbucket was headed.

Bitbucket recently gave developers the ability to make comments on changesets. While inline code comments would also be nice, Bitbucket has said the implementation of changeset comments will enable the development of inline comments.

Now today, one year after the Bitbucket acquisition, in a move that justifies our long term faith in Atlassian and Bitbucket to deliver, Bitbucket has announced Git support, including a GitHub importer:

http://blog.bitbucket.org/2011/10/03/bi ... rocks-git/

[Hoikas]

Nothing like competition to spur innovation... We'll see if BitBucket can catch up to github