Now with Code Commenting and Mentions

By Justen Stepka, Product Manager on August 22, 2011

Two months ago we revamped our pull request feature to help teams using DVCS and Bitbucket increase their productivity. One bit was missing though; the ability to easily have a conversation around code changes.

This is why we are excited to announce threaded commenting for pull requests and changesets!

Below is a screenshot of a recent pull request conversation we had when building the new @mentions feature for code commenting – oh yeah, we added a new email notification so that when someone needs your attention you will be sure to notice.

Adding comments

Have something to say? Simply click on any ‘Add comment’ link and start typing.

When commenting, you might have a few code suggestions of your own to make – to make these comments easy to read, we support syntax highlighting for code snippets. Additionally, there is a commenting tool bar for issue and changeset linking.

Repository owners and contributors will receive an email notification of your comment. Knowing that you already have enough email to deal with, email threading has been improved for those of you using Gmail.

Feedback

Thanks to everyone who has provided feedback since we revamped pull requests earlier this summer.

We want to make code collaboration even better for small teams. Let us know how we can make your team even more productive!

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Glenn

it would be good to see the comment icon also appear on the overview screen when it lists the latest 5 commits – this only appears on the commits page currently.

http://www.bitbucket.org Justen Stepka

Great suggestion — we deployed an update a few minutes ago with your suggestion.

Glenn

it would be good to see the comment icon also appear on the overview screen when it lists the latest 5 commits – this only appears on the commits page currently.
Glenn

it would be good to see the comment icon also appear on the overview screen when it lists the latest 5 commits – this only appears on the commits page currently.
Cadious

I would like to see commenting options in source code browser.

Luciano Longo

That is an excellent idea.
I think it would be even better to have the ability to comment on specific lines of code in a diff, this would be really useful.

Cadious

I would like to see commenting options in source code browser.
Cadious

I would like to see commenting options in source code browser.
Anonymous

Sounds great, however we really need inline code comments. This is one of the reasons we are thinking about switching to Github.

http://twitter.com/elehack Michael Ekstrand

+1. I would like to replace ReviewBoard with pull requests in our development flow, but in order to do that inline commenting is necessary.

http://www.bitbucket.org Justen Stepka

Great suggestions — this is something we know we need to add.

With the comments framework in place it will be easier for us to expand the functionality in the future.

Jon Langevin

Hopefully the near-future…
Rajsingh

Justen, when can we get the inline comments feature working? Our developers are asking us to switch to github because of that.

http://davidchambersdesign.com/ David Chambers

The feature is several months away, Rajsingh. We are eager to use it ourselves, so we don’t lack motivation.
Arild Langtind

several months later…

What’s the status on inline comment?
http://davidchambersdesign.com/ David Chambers

I’m no longer on the Bitbucket team, so I’m not sure. Hopefully Justen will chime in on this.

paragarora

2 years gone. Whats the status?

Niels Sandholt Busch

Sounds great, however we really need inline code comments. This is one of the reasons we are thinking about switching to Github.
Anonymous

Sounds great, however we really need inline code comments. This is one of the reasons we are thinking about switching to Github.
Robert Kluin

Are inline code comments for pull-requests on the roadmap? We chose github over bitbucket due to the lack of this feature.
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http://twitter.com/elehack Michael Ekstrand

+1. I would like to replace ReviewBoard with pull requests in our development flow, but in order to that inline commenting is necessary.
http://twitter.com/elehack Michael Ekstrand

+1. I would like to replace ReviewBoard with pull requests in our development flow, but in order to do that inline commenting is necessary.
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That is an excellent idea.nI think it would be even better to have the ability to comment on specific lines of code in a diff, this would be really useful.
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That is an excellent idea.
I think it would be even better to have the ability to comment on specific lines of code in a diff, this would be really useful.
http://www.bitbucket.org Justen Stepka

Great suggestion — we deployed an update a few minutes with your suggestion.
http://www.bitbucket.org Justen Stepka

Great suggestion — we deployed an update a few minutes ago with your suggestion.
http://www.bitbucket.org Justen Stepka

Great suggestions — this is something we know we need to add.nnWith the comments framework in place it will be easier for us to expand the functionality in the future.
http://www.bitbucket.org Justen Stepka

Great suggestions — this is something we know we need to add.

With the comments framework in place it will be easier for us to expand the functionality in the future.
Jon Langevin

Hopefully the near-future…
Jon Langevin

Hopefully the near-future…