We need a local copy of the hosted bitbucket git repository to satisfy our escrow agreements.

Colin Griffiths

You FAQ details that "Backups are managed by the Bitbucket team. You will not have to do anything yourself" but this is an issue for us because we need a copy for our escrow deposits. Is there a way of us getting and maintaining our own copy of the repository. Under SVN we used synsync to download newer revisions, is there any equivalent we can use for git?

Colin Griffiths

Raise support call with Atlassian and got the following response:

Good day to you. Well, since BitBucket is using Git & Hg, whatever your repository is, you can always clone it to a local directory for safe keeping, or for simply doing changes locally before pushing them to your BitBucket repository, here's a page that explains Forking repository and cloning it locally, you can also keep that local copy of yours sync with your BitBucket repository by doing pull requests, all that explained here:

• https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BITBUCKET/Forking+a+Repository

Hope this clarifies some of the doubts you had, feel free to ask more questions.