Bitbucket upgrade goes toe to toe with GitHub

Giving GitHub a run for its money, Atlassian is upgrading its Bitbucket project hosting platform with improvements covering distributed teams, large files, and repository organization.

Supporting both the Git and Mercurial revision control systems, Bitbucket offers code collaboration and Git that "massively scales," according to Atlassian. The company is adding Smart Mirroring, Git LFS (Large File System), and a Projects capability, for organizing multiple repositories, to Bitbucket.

"Git gives you by default whatever you want, and we help apply a consistent workflow," Roger Barnes, Atlassian senior product manager, said in an interview. With Bitbucket, Atlassian sees "a huge opportunity for software teams to work faster," he said. Bitbucket also integrates with the company's Jira project management tool.

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