[ForHackernews]

Isn't Bitbucket owned by Atlassian? Nobody uses any of their products by choice. They sold some enterprise contract to your boss's boss.

[doix]

Bitbucket is not bad. It has features I miss in GitHub, particularly the larger selection of PR merge strategies so I can satisfy my git history OCD.

Probably the Atlassian product I hate the least.

[dilyevsky]

Yes it’s also been rewritten since acquisition which was when hg support was dropped afaik

[jamesfinlayson]

Why was it rewritten?

[dilyevsky]

If i recall correctly the server/enterprise version was completely separate product written in java (as opposed to python which powered original bitbucket.com). I think the java eventually subsumed the cloud product but not too sure of that