What is a BitBucket project?

[Lars Bo Wassini]

When creating a new repository, I have to select a project. Why would I need to select a project as the repository name has to be unique to the workspace and not the project?

What is projects used for? The url never includes the project anyway?

E.g.
I have a project and below this I have repositories for "Documentation", "Backend", "Frontend", "Settings", "Database".

Anther project would have the same - but it is not possible.

Or a MCU project with "Arduino", "ESP32", "STM32". Same app but different processors.

And again - now it is not possible to add repositories with these names to another project.

[Ulrich Kuhnhardt _IzymesCo_]

We use projects as a configuration layer between workspace and repository for branching model and default reviewers. This way repos can inherit the project setting or override it.