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3 reasons most meetings are pointless
Between pointless meetings and email it’s exceedingly difficult to get work done while you’re actually at work. Time is scarce when your calendar looks like a game of Tetris, but you’d at least hope that all the time spent in meetings is put to good use. Unfortunately, that’s just not the case, and the fact of the […]
3 reasons email hurts your productivity
One of the turning points for communication in the workplace was the invention of email. Historically it’s been the easiest way to make contact in any business relationship – short, pointed conversations with the teammates you work closest with, or quick messages to people you’re communicating with for the very first time. You could say it […]
All the ways to use Google drive with Trello
You already love Google Docs, the online productivity suite that lets you create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations and easily share them with others. Google Drive is the new home for Google Docs, but lets you store all your files — documents, photos, videos, music… anything — and gives you access to them anywhere.
Smart branching with SourceTree and Git-flow
Note: for brevity this article refers to Git and git-flow, but SourceTree supports exactly the same concepts in Mercurial via Hg Flow too. In early 2010, Vincent Driessen wrote an article called “A successful Git branching model” which recommended an approach called git-flow to use git branches in your development cycle. The idea was to standardise branching and merging […]
Deployment Keys Now Available on Bitbucket
We’ve received a lot of requests for this feature, and our recent Innovation Week has given us the time to follow through on this request. We’re pleased to introduce Deployment Keys for Bitbucket. Deployment keys allow users to clone/pull source from a repository over SSH using Git and Hg without having to use up one […]
Introducing: Repo Transfers
A couple weeks ago, we launched our new Teams feature to make it easier for our users to collaborate on Bitbucket. Today, we’re happy to introduce Repo Transfers to make it easier to share repositories amongst your team. Repo Transfers allow you to change the ownership of a repository to another team or user account. Transfer any […]
Team Up with Bitbucket
UPDATE: Since we released this feature, we’ve also released a way to transfer your individual repositories to your team. Check out our documentation for full details! It’s finally here! Bitbucket Teams makes it dead simple to create a shared account to consolidate your team-owned repositories and organize your group’s work. Create team-owned repos that everyone can access […]
You can copy boards now. Finally.
To do so, click the “Options” button in the board sidebar and select “Copy Board”. Give your new board a name and you’re good to go.
Meet the newest Atlassian product. Hello, IRKD.
The last few months have seen a blitzkrieg of announcements from Atlassian HQ. We released Jira 5 with a new REST API, acquired Hipchat, a collaboration service for group chat, and launched Bamboo 4, our continuous integration and deployment server with more features for DVCS users. But the biggest news we saved for today – a brand new product. […]
The pomodoro technique for better productivity
Editor’s note: This guest post is by Francesco Cirillo, the creator of the Pomodoro Technique. It’s a short introduction to a relatively simple and yet powerful method for getting more work done with less stress.
Git vs. Mercurial: why Git?
This is a guest blog post by Charles O’Farrell, a developer at Atlassian, that will focus on the reasons a team may choose Git as their DVCS of choice. Charles is focused on coding in any DVCS and has spent some time switching users over from ClearCase to Git. In our previous blog we explored […]
Atlassian Acquires Hipchat, Group Chat and Collaboration Service
Supercharges Collaboration with Private Instant Messaging for Teams of All Sizes SAN FRANCISCO & SYDNEY, March 7 2012 – Atlassian, the leading provider of collaboration software for product teams, today announced it has acquired San Francisco-based Hipchat, a hosted private chat service for companies and teams. Hipchat has more than 1,200 customers including Groupon, HubSpot and WIRED. Atlassian will incorporate […]
Mercurial vs. Git: why Mercurial?
This is a guest blog post by Steve Losh focusing on the primary reasons a team may choose Mercurial as their (distributed) version control system. Check out Steve’s projects to see some of the cool things he has worked on around Distributed Version Control, or jump over to his Bitbucket account and fork one of […]
Label your SSH keys
We are happy to announce that you can now add labels to your SSH keys. This makes managing multiple SSH keys much simpler. Lets be honest, this blog should have happened a while ago and for that we say, thanks for your patience. If you want to update your existing keys just hit the edit […]