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Pointing Bitbucket at an existing repository

Bill Wohler

We don't need a Git repository as we already have one. We just purchased Bitbucket (server) for its code review features. I was a little surprised to find that it doesn't appear to be possible to point it at an existing repository. It seems that we'd have to clone our existing repositories into Bitbucket and then abandon those repositories.

Is it true that Bitbucket only works with internal repositories? If so, why is that?

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Pramodh M

Hi @Bill Wohler

You have to understand how Git works here.

For any changes to be appeared in the Bitbucket server first create a repository, and wherever your repository is you can push the changes to your server by adding the remote link to your server.

I'm not sure what you mean by internal repositories, please let me know more on that.

Thanks,
Pramodh

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Pramodh M

Hi @Bill Wohler

You have to understand how Git works here.

For any changes to be appeared in the Bitbucket server first create a repository, and wherever your repository is you can push the changes to your server by adding the remote link to your server.

I'm not sure what you mean by internal repositories, please let me know more on that.

Thanks,
Pramodh

Bill Wohler

Thanks, Pramodh. Let's see if an example will help. Our external Git repository is at, say, git.domain.com and our Bitbucket server is at bitbucket.domain.com. I was referring to any repositories at bitbucket.domain.com as internal. I want the Bitbucket server to use the Git repository at git.domain.com. In other words, our developers want to keep developing on git.domain.com and view their code reviews on bitbucket.domain.com.

Pramodh M

Say what is this git.domain.com is? which is this external Git repository?

Could you please help me understand here?

And is bitbucket.domain.com Bitbucket Server

Bill Wohler

We've cloned from git.domain.com:

[wohler@host project (master=)]$ git remote -v
origin ssh://git.domain.com/GIT/project.git (fetch)
origin ssh://git.domain.com/GIT/project.git (push)

It would be preferable if this doesn't change for our developers.

Yes, bitbucket.domain.com is the Bitbucket server.

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