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There are a few new features over the last 5 years...

  * Merge checks
  * Build status (finally...)
  * Audit logs
  * Inline editing
From: https://bitbucket.org/whats-new

Nothing that keeps it above Github, but they always seem to maintain feature parity.

/not a bitbucket shill

//just don't like inaccurate comments.



We're coming up on 6 years now and they still haven't released code search:

https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issues/2874/ability-to-sea...

That's incredible.


It's okay. It's just that I tried to use it a few months ago and saw they still don't even have syntax highlighting for diffs. It's pretty depressing and it makes it look like they have abandoned the service.


I've been using BitBucket for years and the lack of syntax highlighting for diffs has never even occurred to me.

Why would you want to use such a limited diff tool at all? Personally, I use the best diff tool that I can find and so far that's BeyondCompare from Scooter Software.


I'm with you. I use Araxis Merge. Stupid expensive, but considering I diff dozens of times a day ... worth every penny.


it becomes more important when you use this for code-review. Then reach diffs makes more sense. Once you start using them you don't want to go back :)


I do use diffs for code review. I simply use a much, much better native tool instead of a crappy web tool.


I'm sure guys who have paid for the enterprise version of BitBucket would rather not have to pay $60 for every developer for BeyondCompare on top of what they pay for BitBucket


Yes, nobody would rather pay for anything though - so what kind of argument is that really? It's like saying "Who would pay extra for higher quality tools?" - the answer is: Lots of people would.

Personally, I pay for the best tools because they're worth the money. For that tool in particular, I paid $60 over 3 or 4 years ago. It's practically nothing compared to some of the other tools that we use.


You can use BeyondCompare. I just use vimdiff.


we need to make the web ones get the same experience level then. It's great to have it all there. Were you leave your inline notes, there's a live communication part, all feedback from automated code checkers etc.


It looks like they have added it now.

I wonder if they were slow on updating their site because of Sourcetree, which I personally love (especially since it is a cross-platoform [Mac/Win] GUI client).


No they haven't... I just checked. No syntax highlighting for diffs.


Hmm, they show up for me [1]. That screenshot is an HTML file but I also looked at JS, Python and Markdown and all were showing syntax highlight in diff commits.

1. https://i.imgur.com/Av70r03.png


this isn't syntax highlighting, it's highlighting the diff add/removes.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b0b9b3df27d100a975b...

syntax highlighting would be like this, where keywords, function calls, and variables are all different colors.


Thank you for clarifying. I'm not sure why I didn't initially associate 'syntax highlighting' with what it is. I can see how this would be useful when dealing with a lot of information, especially when reviewing another's work.


You can't claim that Bitbucket has syntax highlighting and then post proof that isn't actually proof. Well you can, but why bother?

I just checked our Bitbucket. There's no syntax highlighting for any of our used languages for diffs. There is no option to enable or disable it. When you do a search for it, it's still an open issue in BitBucket's public issue tracker[0].

If you've got some wizardry working that isn't an external script, hook it up.

[0]: https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issues/8673/add-syntax-hig...


+1

We've added 4 big features just in the last 12 months

+ Pipelines + Git LFS + Smart Mirroring + Merge Checks

More here just from Oct 2016: https://blog.bitbucket.org/2016/10/12/scaling-in-bitbucket-c...

Not to mention other features like 2FA, Projects, Snippets, Bitbucket Connect, etc. in the last 2 years


When can I search code lol


Also Pipelines which is like Travis CI built into Bitbucket.




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