Author Archives: Justen Stepka, Product Manager
SourceTree – Git & Mercurial client for Windows and Mac updates
Since the public release of SourceTree for Windows a little over a month ago, we’ve been working hard to expand and improve our Git and Mercurial clients for Windows and Mac. Windows client adds Git Flow support Our Git Flow support in SourceTree for Mac turned out …
Beautiful and relevant notifications
Staying up to date on code activity in Bitbucket just got easier. As part of our on-going notifications improvements we have completely redesigned the email notification experience. More control, more options and new HTML emails give you the information you want, when …
Introducing SourceTree for Windows – a free desktop client for Git
The SourceTree team is thrilled to announce the latest addition to our family Atlassian distributed version control system (DVCS) family – SourceTree for Windows. For some time now many Windows developers have been requesting a native counterpart to the SourceTree Mac …
Pull Requests now with Reviewers and Smarter Notifications
Pull requests provide an easy way for developers to review changes on a branch, discuss changes, and merge the branch into the main development branch. The goal is to be fast and simple. Today we are adding two new capabilities to pull requests that will make your workflow …
SourceTree for Windows beta signup
“SourceTree makes Git a pleasure to use and we need it on Windows.” You asked, we listened! SourceTree, our powerful Mac client for Git and Mercurial distributed version control systems, is coming to the Windows platform in the next few weeks and we want you …
Improved User Profiles
Today we’re rolling out a new profile page that is more in-line with the larger site redesign we did in October. At a glance you can now see a more detailed list of repositories for a user, with the most recently active repositories displayed at the top. You can …
Feature branches just got better
The Bitbucket team uses Git’s branch and merge features religiously with pull requests for code review. At any given time we may have a dozen open pull requests for code that is looking to be merged into our staging branch, which later gets promoted to our production branch …
Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket
It’s a big day here at Bitbucket HQ. The Bitbucket team is unveiling a brand new, redesigned Bitbucket. Our goal for this huge release was to rethink and rebuild the Bitbucket web experience from the ground up. Today, we’re are excited to introduce the new Bitbucket …
Post mortem on our availability earlier today
Earlier today at 2am San Francisco time Bitbucket experienced about three hours of 500 error page responses for users attempting to access the user newsfeed and repository overview pages. The outage was caused by a kernel panic on our Redis server, which is responsible …
Refer a friend to Bitbucket for free users!
Want more than 5 private collaborators for free? All you need to do is get your friends on Bitbucket. For each friend you invite who joins Bitbucket, we’ll upgrade your free 5 user personal account by 1 additional user. You can do this up to 3 times for the chance …