We performed a comparison between Bitbucket and GitHub based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Result: Based on the parameters we compared, GitHub comes out ahead of Bitbucket. Although both products have valuable features and can be estimated as high-end solutions, our reviewers found Bitbucket has a complicated deployment process.
"The solution is easy to use. If I need to check out my latest code or I need to send my local code to the depositories it is simple. Overall it is has been a good experience from my side using this solution."
"Bitbucket lets me create new projects in a few clicks and check out files in a seamless and integrated manner."
"The initial deployment is rather straightforward and only takes 30 minutes to an hour."
"The tool's automation helped because we onboarded a lot of projects and teams into Bitbucket. The product's automation helped us complete activities in two days which previously used to take around two weeks to complete. We have completely automated processes that were earlier manual. It has good integration with Jira and Jenkins."
"The setup of Bitbucket is simple."
"The most valuable thing we have found is the workloads are good in Jira and we are able to control the access."
"The most valuable feature of Bitbucket is you can see the differences between the fresh code and the old code before you merge. Additionally, the solution is easy to use and well-integrated."
"Bitbucket is feasible and friendly compared to Visual Studio DevOps on the Microsoft platform."
"The best feature is the ability to track the history of all code changes, and it's easy to use. Additionally, as it's open source, anyone can use that feature resulting in distributed development. This opens the door to collaboration with different code and developer, feature, and master branches of development."
"Even if I'm not in the office, I can access and work on my code from anywhere with my account credentials."
"During our use of GitHub, we have not encountered any problems and GitHub adds new features frequently."
"The code sharing and updated history are valuable features."
"The solution is scalable."
"The initial setup was easy."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it can support you for most of the road map and it can automate some tasks which works really well with collaboration with the teams. They are really interested in how they organize the history of the code itself which is good."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"I rate the support from Bitbucket a four out of five."
"The solution is not user-friendly. Right now, the solution is not so easy to understand. It needs to update its design and overall user experience."
"Bitbucket should consider having a CI/CD if they don’t have it already."
"There could be more AI features included in the product."
"Bitbucket could improve its security. For example, the user access security could improve."
"One of the areas the solution could improve on is when there is a merging conflict it is quite confusing. When I am having a merging conflict I get stuck on the page, then I need to search how to handle the particular problem. For example, finding what the commands are which can be used."
"Bitbucket's stability isn't flawless. It has crashed on me occasionally, but I haven't yet lost anything after a crash."
"There is room for improvement in the workflow. Other similar tools offer automation and more streamlined workflows, which Bitbucket currently lacks."
"Our firewall was blocking cloning and downloading with SSH."
"The UI is a little outdated, so that could be improved."
"GitHub should provide more integration in their next release, including integrating with Jenkins, CI/CD and Jira."
"They're improving the work items to track the progress of the team, but in my experience, Azure DevOps is better in this functionality. GitHub needs to improve the form to track the progress of the work done by a team."
"It would be good if there were training materials for junior developers."
"The ticketing system is not working."
"The descriptions within Github could be more user-friendly to show the trees of Gitflow."
"While using the solution when merging two code branches the code becomes a bit messy. This should be improved in the future."
Bitbucket is ranked 1st in Version Control with 42 reviews while GitHub is ranked 3rd in Version Control with 74 reviews. Bitbucket is rated 8.4, while GitHub is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Bitbucket writes "It's a good solution for storing code, but the usability and integration could be better". On the other hand, the top reviewer of GitHub writes "Beneficial version control and continuous integration, but guides would be helpful". Bitbucket is most compared with Bitbucket Server, AWS CodeCommit, Atlassian SourceTree, IBM Rational ClearCase and Liquibase, whereas GitHub is most compared with Snyk, AWS CodeCommit, Fortify on Demand, Atlassian SourceTree and Checkmarx One. See our Bitbucket vs. GitHub report.
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