Why can I not have 2 repositories with the same name even if they are in different projects?

[Giancarlo Franchi]

Say I have the following project / repo hierarchy:

java

|----- my-first-repo

python

|----- my-first-repo

When I try to create the my-first-repo in the python project I get an error saying I already have a repo with the name my-first-repo.

Seems like I should be able to create repos with the same name if they are in different projects.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

It's because the repo name is part of the path.  Think of what goes on the disk - how would ./mygitwork/bob get distinguished from ./mygitwork/bob ?

[Giancarlo Franchi]

Makes sense, but then why not have the project name also be part of the path.

[Caroline R]

Hi, @Giancarlo Franchi,

We already have the following feature requests to include the project ID to the repository URL, which would allow you to create two repositories with the same name in different projects: 

• Option to include project ID in repo URLs

• Use project name in repo path instead team name

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Caroline

[Giancarlo Franchi]

Thank you Caroline!

[Erez Maadani]

Do the projects have different keys? 

BTW, I just tried to create a repo with same name on different project and it worked great - on bitbucket cloud 

[Giancarlo Franchi]

Odd.

I have a the following projects:

Java --> Key = JAVA

Python --> Key = PYT

In java I have a repo called minesweeper.

I'm re-writing it in Python. So i go to create new repo. I select my workspace. Then project Python and try to create repo minesweeper.

It gives me the error that a repo with that name exists (I don't have a minesweeper repo in the python project).