Git and Bitbucket

Premaranjan Dilujan

4 min readApr 20, 2023

What are Git and Bitbucket?
Installing the Git repository tool in the local machine
Creating a project in bitbucket and adding users to the respective project in Bitbucket
Configuring user credentials in developer machine
Creating development projects and connecting with Bitbucket
Managing Git branches and keeping track of different versions
Add changes to the remote repository
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1 — What are Git and Bitbucket?

Git

Git is a distributed repository management tool (version control tool).
It contains a set of commands in order to manage the project repository.

Bitbucket

Bitbucket provides a service to host the repository in the cloud/physical server that configures Bitbucket.

Git and Bitbucket work together in order to manage the repository

2 — Installing the Git repository tool

Click download and install — https://git-scm.com/

3 — Creating a project in bitbucket and adding users to the respective project in Bitbucket

Sign up or Log in to the bitbucket account.
Create a project and repository.
Adding users who will work in the repository with permissions.

4 — Configuring user credentials in the developer machine

open the git bash and follow the commands,

note: Use the user name and email which were integrated with Bitbucket.

git config — global user.name ‘user_name’
git config — global user.email ‘user@testmail.com’

To see all the global parameters: git config — list

5 — Working with the remote repository(clone repo)

after the Git bash opens the following steps in the bash,

i - clone the repository to that folder.

git clone https://user@bitbucket.org/user/test_repo.git

If you facing any authentication issues, watch this video.

Managing Git branches and keeping track of different versions

6 — Managing Git branches and keeping track of different versions

Note: The default branch is the master.

Optional steps are done by the project admin,

i — Create a new branch

note: change the directory (cd test_repo) into the git repository that was cloned.

git branch br_dev1

in the project, each developer has their own branch which is used to push changes in the project that was done by the specific developer.
When we create a new branch from a previous branch, it takes the copy of the previous branch. for example, in our case we create a new branch br_dev1 from the master branch, therefore br_dev1 branch takes the copy of the source code from the master branch.

ii — Switch into the created branch

git checkout br_dev1

ii i— Initialized the created branch in the remote repository.

Every branch has two copies of the branch.

a— local copy/repository (master, dev1) — The version maintains in the local machine

b — remote copy/repository (remotes/origin/master) — The branch maintains in the remote server.

It is important for which branch is updating work with the project.

git push -u origin br_dev1 — create br_dev1 in the remote repository and push everything in the local branch into the remote branch.

7 — Add changes to the remote repository.

now I’m in the br_dev1 branch.

i — Make changes in existing files from local the machine.

ii — git status

show all the changes.
in our case add, and modify files available in the local project file(local uncommitted changes) not in the br_dev1 branch.

iii — git add .

adding those changes to staging area.

iv — git commit -m “this is my first commit”

commit all the changes into the local repository of the particular branch(br_dev1 branch).

v — git push

push all the changes in the local repository into the remote repository of the particular branch(br_dev1 branch).

vi — merge the changes that are available in the remote repository of the particular branch(br_dev1 branch) into the master branch.

git checkout master — first, switch to the master branch.
git merge origin/br_dev1 — merge local master branch from changes available in remote br_dev1 branch
git push — push all the things available in the local master branch into the remote master branch

8 — How next developer get the updated code form repository?

i — git clone https://user@bitbucket.org/user/test_repo.git

clone the repository of the particular project into a particular local directory (one time enough).

ii — navigate into the respective cloned project

iii — git branch br_dev2

create a new branch done by admin (one time enough)

iv — git checkout br_dev2

switch into particular branch

v — git push -u origin br_dev2

create br_dev2 in the remote repository and push everything in the local branch into the remote branch.

vi — git pull origin master

Pull the update from the master branch