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Bitbucket is a web-based hosting service

Shared web hosting service

A shared web hosting service or virtual hosting service or derive host refers to a web hosting service where many websites reside on one web server connected to the Internet. Each site "sits" on its own partition, or section/place on the server, to keep it separate from other sites...

for projects that use either the Mercurial

Mercurial

Mercurial is a cross-platform, distributed revision control tool for software developers. It is mainly implemented using the Python programming language, but includes a binary diff implementation written in C. It is supported on Windows and Unix-like systems, such as FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Linux...

or Git

Git (software)

Git is a distributed revision control system with an emphasis on speed. Git was initially designed and developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development. Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on...

revision control

Revision control

Revision control, also known as version control and source control , is the management of changes to documents, programs, and other information stored as computer files. It is most commonly used in software development, where a team of people may change the same files...

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) , 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

Python (programming language)

Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive...

.

It is similar to GitHub

Github

GitHub is a web-based hosting service for software development projects that use the Git revision control system. GitHub offers both commercial plans and free accounts for open source projects...

, which uses only Git

Git (software)

. In a 2008 blog post, Bruce Eckel

Bruce Eckel

Bruce Eckel is the author of numerous books and articles about computer programming. He also gives frequent lectures and seminars for computer programmers...

compared Bitbucket favorably to Launchpad

Launchpad (website)

Launchpad is a web application and website that allow users to develop and maintain software, particularly free software. Launchpad is developed and maintained by Canonical Ltd....

, which uses Bazaar.

History

Bitbucket was previously an independent startup

Startup company

A startup company or startup is a company with a limited operating history. These companies, generally newly created, are in a phase of development and research for markets...

. On September 29th, 2010, Bitbucket was acquired by VC

Venture capital

Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as...

-funded Atlassian

Atlassian

Atlassian is a software company based in Sydney, Australia which makes business enterprise software, targeted at software developers. On 1 September 2010, the World Economic Forum announced the company as a Technology Pioneer for 2011.- Products :...

.
Initially, Bitbucket only offered hosting support for Mercurial

Mercurial

projects. On October 3rd, 2011, Bitbucket officially announced support for Git

Git (software)

hosting.

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The symbol on the sticker on the bucket is the alchemical

Mercury (element)

Mercury is a chemical element with the symbol Hg and atomic number 80. It is also known as quicksilver or hydrargyrum...

and planetary

Mercury (planet)

Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the Solar System, orbiting the Sun once every 87.969 Earth days. The orbit of Mercury has the highest eccentricity of all the Solar System planets, and it has the smallest axial tilt. It completes three rotations about its axis for every two orbits...

symbol for Mercury, and refers to Bitbucket hosting Mercurial

Mercurial

repositories. The contents of the blue bucket is mercury metal.

History

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See also