Very basic SourceTree/remote repository question...

[rob_mt]

Please forgive the basic, non-programming question, but I'm stumped. I'm the non-programmer half of our small company, and we use bitbucket for our repositories. (While I'm not a programmer, I am technically competent, and can usually work my way through most issues…except this one, it seems.)

I watch the commits in our repositories to see what's going on, so I can keep up with documentation, user help requests, etc. I never commit or change code myself, so I just need to browse the repositories (the commit messages, in particular).

I'd like to use SourceTree to view the remote repositories, without cloning them to my Mac. It seems this should be possible, but I can't get it to work. When I have the Remote tab selected in the SourceTree browser, I only see a heading for "BitBucket" followed by my account name in parentheses—no repositories ever show up. I do see my online avatar in the Accounts section, so I'm pretty sure the connection is good.

I can also enter a URL for a specific repository and clone it. But I really don't want that, I just want to view the remote repositories, as I would in the browser. I've tried using Basic and Oauth auth types, and both SSH and HTTPS for the protocol on my account, with no luck.

There are a number of messages in Console, including some TIC TCP Conn Cancel ones that don't look very good, but I have no idea how to really troubleshoot this.

thanks!

-rob.

[jonlarsen]

Maybe I don't understand the situation fully but can't you just login to Bitbucket.com and view them online?

[rob_mt]

I can, but the point was to use the app, so I didn't have to work in a web browser. I decided to just clone them locally, giving up some drive space but giving access to what I need to see.

thanks;

-rob.

[jonlarsen]

 I see. 

- James

[rob_mt]

Thanks Craig and Manjunath ...

So the Remotes tab should show a list of all the repositories in our account? It's coming up blank for me (I only see the tab header), yet I can clone from a URL, which implies that my permissions are correct, doesn't it?

thanks;

-rob.

[Craig Castle-Mead]

Hey Rob,

Happy to be corrected by others, but after having a bit of a look through options - I don't think it's possible to directly achieve what you want.

The closest thought I have is to create an empty branch - you then checkout that branch (which has no files) and from there, you should be able to browse the other branches commits. To create an empty branch, it appears as if someone at least is going to have the code checked out to their system (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13969050/how-to-create-a-new-empty-branch-for-a-new-project) - this could either be yourself, or, someone on the development team who'd already have a checkout in place.

CCM

[Manju]

Hey Rob,

If you are just looking to list all repositories that you have access to either via a team membership, or the ones you created by yourself, you can do so in the remotes tab. If you want to see anything beyond that, you'd have to clone the repo to your Mac.

Thanks!