Snippets overview

Snippets help you share code segments or files with yourself, members of your workspace, or the world.

Snippets at a glance

• Built for collaboration or individual sharing.

• Syntax sensitive, making drag and drop quick and simple.

• Built on Git so revisions are tracked and you can clone and push. 

• Support multiple files, each snippet can have many files so you can share a single snippet without losing context.

• Have amazing API support so you can build snippets into your app or process.

How to use snippets

1. Select the Create button and select Snippet from the dropdown menu.

2. Paste some code or drag a file onto the page.

3. Select the owner of the snippet from Create in menu.

4. Set the permissions to either public or private.

5. Click Create snippet.

Permissions in snippets

Here's how permissions work for snippets:

Cloning snippets

Clone your snippet so you can work on it locally and push back up to Bitbucket Cloud. 

1. Select Snippets from the left nav menu.

2. Select the title of the 'snippet' you want to clone. 

3. Click the Clone button in the upper-right corner of the Snippets page.

4. Switch to the directory where you want to clone the snippet using the cd (change directory) command as shown in the following example:

   1 cd path/to/directory

5. Paste the clone link into your terminal.

6. Start working on your snippet.