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Bitbucket vs GitHub vs GitLab<p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #273239; font-family: urw-din, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.2025px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://bitbucket.org/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-weight: 500; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">Bitbucket</a><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #273239; display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: urw-din, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.2025px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Bitbucket was launched in 2008 initially supporting Mercurial Projects. In 2010, it was acquired by Atlassian and from 2011 it also started to support Git hosting.</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">It supports the Mercurial VCS(version control system) in addition to Git</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">It is not open source but by buying the self-hosted version the full source code is provided.</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Bitbucket is written in Python and uses the Django web framework.</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">We get free private repositories on Bitbucket</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">It offers both commercial plans and free accounts. It offers free accounts with an unlimited number of private repositories</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Imports existing Git projects from Excel, Github, etc.</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Some remarkable features of Bitbucket are<ol style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Issue tracking</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">REST APIs to build third party applications which can use any development language</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Code search is possible</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Pull requests with code review and comments</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Snippets that allow developers to share code segments or files</li></ol></li></ul><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #273239; font-family: urw-din, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.2025px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://github.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-weight: 500; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">GitHub</a><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #273239; display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: urw-din, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.2025px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">GitHub was launched in 2008. It is git based repository hosting platform.</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Is only hosts projects that use the Git VCS</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">It is free for public repositeries and for private one it is paid.</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">GitHub is written using Ruby and Erlang</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">It has something called Gists(a way to share code snippets)</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">It comes with its own Wiki and issue tracking system.</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Here, we can decide if someone gets a read or write access to a repository.</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s the largest repository host with more than 38+ million projects</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">It has size limitations. The file size can’t be more than 100 Mb while the repository can host 1Gb of information.</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Some remarkable features of GitHub are</li><ol style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Commit History can be seen</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Graphs: pulse, contributors, commits, code frequency, members of it.</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Pull requests with code review and comments</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Issue Tracking</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Email notification</li></ol></ul><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #273239; display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: urw-din, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.2025px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li><a href="https://gitlab.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-weight: 500; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">GitLab</a></li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">GitLab was launched as a project in 2011 providing an alternative to the available repository management solutions. But the site GitLab.com was launched in 2012</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">It do almost everything that GitHub does, so it is like Github, but here we have free private repositories that github doesn’t</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">GitLab Community Edition is free and open sourced.</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Here we can set and modify people’s permissions according to their role.</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">In this, you can attach any file to any issue. You can’t do this inside GitHub.</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">The source code of GitLab Community Edition is available on their <a href="https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">website</a></li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">It has relatively slow interface</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">It supports Git import</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Some remarkable features of GitHub are<ol style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Issue Tracker</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Commit graph and reporting tools</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Create new issues from the Issue Board</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-black); line-height: 1.58; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Ease of migration from other providers</li></ol></li>Now which one to chose and when? If you want to just contribute to other open source projects then use GitHub. These days GitHub acts as online portfolio for a person, where one can upload some of his own projects and mention the GitHub account in his resume. Having a active GitHub account helps to distinguish one from others, and shows how much he has worked for open source.While GitLab is a decent solution, especially for Digital Ocean and GitLab is free for private repositories while GitHub charges. Many organizations uses GitLab while they want there codebase to be private. Bitbucket restricts you to work with only 5 people for free, GitLab.com is completely free. So if you want to work with Digital Ocean then GitLab is best and when you want to You want to host your 1000 repositories and 100 colleagues somewhere then GitLab.com is the solution.Bitbucket is one of the most popular while it comes at organization’s point of view. More organizations host their projects in Bitbucket compared to GitLab, due to its user friendly interface. Bitbucket Cloud has Mercurial support. Bitbucket also offers free private repositories so only members can access the codebase. So if you are a organization and want to host your project, then go for Bitbucket, and even you can individually host some projects there too, apart from organization.</ul>

Bitbucket vs GitHub vs GitLab

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