Read FAQs about Bitbucket Cloud

A repository slug is a URL-friendly version of a repository name, automatically generated by Bitbucket Cloud for use in the URL.

Match the email address you commit with locally with a validated email address on your account.

Learn the limits we enforce to prevent use that adversely impacts performance.

Bitbucket Cloud generally keeps up to date with recent versions of Git and Mercurial.

A DVCS does not rely on one central server.

You can use Bitbucket to host a static website which would be accessed at <workspaceid>.bitbucket.io.

A repository can be in 'read-only' mode for a number of reasons. Check them out here.

You can't edit or remove an existing redirect URL in the UI. Contact support to edit or remove the redirect URL for you.

VPN access to the Bitbucket Cloud servers is limited to our engineers. Find where to track uptime and reliability.

Bitbucket runs the git gc command on its hosted repositories automatically on a regular basis based on a variety of triggers.

We take daily snapshots of your data, replicate them to an offsite data center, and maintain them in both locations for seven days.

We test against and support latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE 11 (excluding Pipelines), and Microsoft Edge.

Yes, you can push multiple heads to the same branch.

To receive an academic subscription, you must have a valid and reachable academic email address set for the account's primary email.

You can refer to Bitbucket Cloud issues, requests, and users directly from a comment, an issue, or a commit message.

We won't give away another user's account for any reason.

No. While Bitbucket Cloud takes backups regularly, these backups are only for site-wide disaster recovery purposes.

Get valid IP addresses for bitbucket.org, api.bitbucket.org, altssh.bitbucket.org, and Pipelines here.

Check out the list of 3rd party libraries Bitbucket uses.