How to serve your Bitbucket Server repo without using Bitbucket Server

Platform Notice: Data Center Only - This article only applies to Atlassian products on the Data Center platform.

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Summary

Provide access to your Bitbucket Server repo over git protocol for testing purposes, e.g. to test clone speed.

Solution

Windows

  1. Start the git daemon: git daemon --export-all

  2. Clone your repo by using the git protocol and reference the path to the bare repo folder on disk. For example, if your repo is located here:

    C:\atlassian\Bitbucket Server\3.10.2\data\shared\data\repositories\3

    Clone your repo using this command:

    git clone git://<hostname>/atlassian/Bitbucket Server/3.10.2/data/shared/data/repositories/3

Updated on April 8, 2025
Platform
Data Center only
Product
Bitbucket Data Center
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