GitHub vs Bitbucket: Which is Right for Your Development Team?
Choosing the right source control platform for your team is one of the most important decisions you’re going to make. There’s a good chance that you’ll choose Git for the version control software (VCS) itself, but the platform where the code lives is equally important. Many times, it comes down to Bitbucket vs GitHub. Over the years the two have grown strong communities and userbases. In this post we want to take a look at both platforms to see which would better serve your development team’s needs. GitHub vs Bitbucket: The Basics If you are a newcomer to Git, GitHub, and Bitbucket entirely, you may want to have a look at our beginner’s guide to Git . It will walk you through the fundamentals and get you prepped for understanding just what is going on in this article. If you boil it down to the most basic and fundamental difference between GitHub and Bitbucket, it is this: GitHub is focused around public code, and Bitbucket is for private. Basically, GitHub has a huge ope...