
Many of us use distributed version control systems on a daily basis, the most popular of which are now Git and Mercurial. For greater flexibility in the work source codes for projects under the control of such systems are often not stored locally, but on closed servers of companies or in cloud services like
Github or
Bitbucket . These services provide software developers, designers, writers, and people from other professions whose responsibilities include creating content using computers, working together on their tasks, accessing a shared wiki and task scheduler, and exploring other users' work products that are publicly available. repositories.
Different cloud services have different approaches to the issue of payment for their services. So, probably the most popular at the moment service “social coding” GitHub allows for free to work on any number of open source projects, but working with closed repositories is possible only for paid accounts. BitBucket service from Atlassian, a well-known Australian provider of collaborative development systems, is still not so popular, but its policy in attracting new customers is more flexible. In BitBucket, you can create any number of repositories closed for viewing for free, but no more than five people can take part in the work on your free closed projects. If you need to increase their number, you will have to buy paid access to the service.
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While many of the projects can be quite freely distributed to the public, of course there are those that need to be kept away from prying eyes, but work on them with large teams. The most appropriate way out here is to purchase a tariff plan on one of the cloud services or install a version control system on your local server. If for some reason you still want to get a completely unlimited access to BitBucket, similar to the purchase of a $ 80 per month tariff plan (at least to just enjoy it, as you rejoice at a 3.5% free fifty-gigabyte account on Dropbox ), please under the cat.
As it was accidentally discovered, BitBucket gives unlimited access to its services to students who verified their email address on the university server. That is, you just need
to go through a small quest and get the coveted box in the zone .edu, which you then enter in your BitBucket account. Although many already have it.
As a result, in the Plans and Billing section in the user profile, you can admire such a pleasing image:
