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Bitbucket vs Phabricator: What are the differences?

## Introduction
Here are the key differences between Bitbucket and Phabricator:

1. **Integration**: Bitbucket integrates seamlessly with Jira, allowing for easy management of issues, agile boards, and workflows together. Phabricator, on the other hand, offers integration with a wide range of tools but may require some configuration for seamless synchronization.
2. **Code Review Process**: Bitbucket provides a simple and straightforward code review process with the use of pull requests. Phabricator offers a more advanced and customizable code review process with features like Herald rules, which automate specific actions based on certain conditions.
3. **Workflow Customization**: Bitbucket's workflow customization capabilities are limited compared to Phabricator, which allows extensive customization through the use of Maniphest, allowing teams to create custom workflows tailored to their specific needs.
4. **Continuous Integration**: Bitbucket offers native integration with Bitbucket Pipelines for continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. Phabricator requires the use of external tools like Jenkins for setting up CI/CD pipelines.
5. **Documentation**: Bitbucket provides basic documentation features such as wikis and README files within repositories. Phabricator offers a more comprehensive documentation engine called Phriction, which allows for rich text editing and the creation of detailed documentation pages.
6. **Permissions and Access Control**: Bitbucket has a more straightforward permission and access control system, allowing for easy management of user roles and permissions. Phabricator offers a more granular control system with the use of audit and authentication policies for added security and compliance.

In Summary, the key differences between Bitbucket and Phabricator lie in integration capabilities, code review processes, workflow customization, continuous integration tools, documentation features, and permissions/access control systems.
Decisions about Bitbucket and Phabricator
Elmar Wouters
CEO, Managing Director at Wouters Media · | 7 upvotes · 565.9K views

I first used BitBucket because it had private repo's, and it didn't disappoint me. Also with the smooth integration of Jira, the decision to use BitBucket as a full application maintenance service was as easy as 1, 2, 3.

I honestly love BitBucket, by the looks, by the UI, and the smooth integration with Tower.

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Weverton Timoteo

Do you review your Pull/Merge Request before assigning Reviewers?

If you work in a team opening a Pull Request (or Merge Request) looks appropriate. However, have you ever thought about opening a Pull/Merge Request when working by yourself? Here's a checklist of things you can review in your own:

  • Pick the correct target branch
  • Make Drafts explicit
  • Name things properly
  • Ask help for tools
  • Remove the noise
  • Fetch necessary data
  • Understand Mergeability
  • Pass the message
  • Add screenshots
  • Be found in the future
  • Comment inline in your changes

Read the blog post for more detailed explanation for each item :D

What else do you review before asking for code review?

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Weverton Timoteo

One of the magic tricks git performs is the ability to rewrite log history. You can do it in many ways, but git rebase -i is the one I most use. With this command, It’s possible to switch commits order, remove a commit, squash two or more commits, or edit, for instance.

It’s particularly useful to run it before opening a pull request. It allows developers to “clean up” the mess and organize commits before submitting to review. If you follow the practice 3 and 4, then the list of commits should look very similar to a task list. It should reveal the rationale you had, telling the story of how you end up with that final code.

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Pros of Bitbucket
Pros of Phabricator
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    Free private repos
  • 397
    Simple setup
  • 349
    Nice ui and tools
  • 342
    Unlimited private repositories
  • 240
    Affordable git hosting
  • 123
    Integrates with many apis and services
  • 119
    Reliable uptime
  • 87
    Nice gui
  • 85
    Pull requests and code reviews
  • 58
    Very customisable
  • 16
    Mercurial repositories
  • 14
    SourceTree integration
  • 12
    JIRA integration
  • 10
    Track every commit to an issue in JIRA
  • 8
    Deployment hooks
  • 8
    Best free alternative to Github
  • 7
    Automatically share repositories with all your teammates
  • 7
    Source Code Insight
  • 7
    Compatible with Mac and Windows
  • 6
    Price
  • 5
    Login with Google
  • 5
    Create a wiki
  • 5
    Approve pull request button
  • 4
    Customizable pipelines
  • 4
    #2 Atlassian Product after JIRA
  • 3
    Unlimited Private Repos at no cost
  • 3
    Also supports Mercurial
  • 3
    Continuous Integration and Delivery
  • 2
    Mercurial Support
  • 2
    Multilingual interface
  • 2
    Teamcity
  • 2
    Open source friendly
  • 2
    Issues tracker
  • 2
    IAM
  • 2
    Academic license program
  • 2
    IAM integration
  • 33
    Open Source
  • 29
    Code Review
  • 25
    Supports Git/Hg/SVN
  • 18
    Bug Tracking
  • 17
    Audit Source Code
  • 11
    Unlimited Repo Support
  • 10
    Software Engineering Platform
  • 10
    Super fast task creation
  • 9
    Flexible Project Management
  • 8
    Project Management
  • 5
    Self hosted
  • 4
    Building Better Software
  • 2
    Best Integration with Gitlab
  • 2
    Complete set for collaborating on software development
  • 1
    Powerful, Complete, Fast, Reliable and Open Source
  • 1
    Straightforward code review process
  • 1
    Workflow
  • 1
    Very effective system, does all PM & code org needed

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Cons of Bitbucket
Cons of Phabricator
  • 19
    Not much community activity
  • 17
    Difficult to review prs because of confusing ui
  • 15
    Quite buggy
  • 10
    Managed by enterprise Java company
  • 8
    CI tool is not free of charge
  • 7
    Complexity with rights management
  • 6
    Only 5 collaborators for private repos
  • 4
    Slow performance
  • 2
    No AWS Codepipelines integration
  • 1
    No more Mercurial repositories
  • 1
    No server side git-hook support
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    What is Bitbucket?

    Bitbucket gives teams one place to plan projects, collaborate on code, test and deploy, all with free private Git repositories. Teams choose Bitbucket because it has a superior Jira integration, built-in CI/CD, & is free for up to 5 users.

    What is Phabricator?

    Phabricator is a collection of open source web applications that help software companies build better software.

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