How to Connect Visual Studio Code with Bitbucket

This article will tell you how to connect Visual Studio Code with Bitbucket and the benefits of using it in your work environment.

Bitbucket Installation Process

With an official Bitbucket extension for VS Code, you can use it on Windows. Before you start, you’ll need to collect some information:

1. Your username and email on the Bitbucket server.
2. Decide what will be the local path to store code.
3. Your account has to have the permission to modify repositories on the Bitbucket server.
4. The path to your store code.
5. Your account needs to have permission to modify repositories on the Bitbucket server.
6. Add a project name.
7. Add a repository name.
8. Get the URL of the repository.
9. Make sure your Visual Studio Code is updated.

The Installation Process

The first thing you’ll have to do is download the Windows installer and choose “Visual Studio Code” when you need to state the editor’s integration. The next thing you need to do is make sure your email and name match Bitbucket servers’ information. Then, follow these steps:

1. Go to the folder that you intend to clone and run the command: git clone.
2. Now you’ve created a subfolder on the local.
3. Open your Workspace on VS Code.
4. Go to “File,” then “Add folder to Workspace.”
5. Open the folder you’ve copied.
6. Now you’ve integrated both platforms.

Bitbucket Features

To enable Bitbucket Git repositories, you’ll first need to download Visual Studio Bitbucket Extension and make use of all of its features. Here are some of the best ones:

1. “Create” is the option that allows users to make a git repository on Bitbucket.org and to synchronize it with a local version.
2. “Clone” is an extensive list of all existing Bitbucket repositories that users could clone.
3. “Publish” lets all users publish all their local repositories and share them with everyone on Bitbucket.
4. View all /Create/Modify a new pull request.

What Is Bitbucket?

Bitbucket is a code management tool for project planning and collaboration on code deployment. It’s integrated with platforms like Trello and Jira, where all kinds of teams can promptly execute a new project and complete it with precision and on time.

For their customers, Bitbucket is also offering different hosting options like Bitbucket Cloud, Bitbucket Servers, and Datacenter.

Bitbucket Interface

Once you start working in the Bitbucket interface, there are some key features you need to get familiar with:

Your Work Dashboard

On Your Work dashboard, you’ll be able to see all the requests that you’ve got as a reviewer and to access requests you’ve created. This is the first thing you’ll see, and if you want to customize it to access certain types of requests, you can do it by using a filter.

Repositories

In SVN, each developer gets a working copy that refers to a central repository. In Git, every developer has their repository with the history of changes.

Repositories are the place where you can see the last updated repository from your current projects on top of the list. If needed, you can search for repositories or filter them according to projects.

This way, you can quickly scale your development team, and in case of breaking the production branch, someone else can continue without delaying work for other developers.

Projects

Projects work like folders for repositories so you can easily find and manage them. Every project has all its repositories on display to keep track of all the changes.

Pull Requests

Source management tools like Bitbucket can improve Git functionality. With pull requests, you can ask other developers to merge some of your branches into their repositories. That’s how a project lead keeps up with all the changes and start discussions when necessary.

When it’s time to review your code and debug it, that’s when you need Pull Requests to view to see which parts of code need another pair of eyes. When any of the developers get stuck, they can always pull a request and ask for help from everyone else in the team.

Issues

Once there’s a new repository on the Bitbucket Cloud, it gets an issue tracker attached to it. This way, you can always be in the know when it comes to project bugs, reports, other tasks, and any other project requests.

Community

For many developers, Git is a commonly used control for new projects. It’s also quite popular for open source projects since it supports a more agile work organization.

Just Go with the Code

A majority of software projects rely on Git to provide them with high-quality version control. Git offers excellent performance, flexibility, and security for every team and all their software projects.

Now that you know how to connect Visual Studio Code with Bitbucket repositories, you’ll be able to improve your workflow and efficiency. Have you been using Bitbucket? What are your impressions?

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