Edit your code in the cloud with bitbucket

[planckscnst]

I'm really hoping they give us a way of organizing our repositories next.

https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/2323/create-a-way-to...

[planckscnst]

Also related: https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/128202/is-there-a-wa...

[mixedbit]

I don't find such feature very useful. Without a way to execute code or run tests it seems too easy to break something.

[rschmitty]

It is nice at least for editing .md files to update readme/instructions/etc.

Sometimes I want to do a quick edit without having to cd directory, make sure I'm up to date, edit file, add/commit/push just for a md file in the repo

[blktiger]

One major reason for this feature is that it's used to edit the wikis. Wikis are git projects in bitbucket so you can check them out and edit them locally, or edit them in bitbucket. For the less technical users collaborating on a project, I'd say that this feature is a big win.

[daigoba66]

I have a CI server which polls for the latest. It compiles and executes tests. If something fails I get notified (e-mail, etc).

As long as you have something like this in place, it doesn't matter how the change gets committed to the repository.

[jval]

It's just a start, I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult to add these features in future for popular languages if there is demand for it. It's pretty exciting IMHO.

[Alphasite_]

IF you had it hooked up to something like heroku, then it could be pretty useful, not the best option, but still useful sometimes.

[notatoad]

bitbucket can ping a web hook on every commit. set up a hook that pulls the code to your test server and runs your test suite.

[bluedino]

Deploy to staging or test environment.

[pearjuice]

For the life of me I cannot comprehend why they din't use a CSS & HTML based button with native text for the "Create a free account" button. Or is it supposed to look that cheap?

[zackbloom]

They probably use a CRM which only allows for image-based CTAs.

[tonetheman]

This is great if you are stuck somewhere needing to change something. I really like bitbucket, about the only thing I miss on their site is a "gist" like functionality.

[hayksaakian]

I want them to open an API for this, maybe I want to make edits my own way, or write a tool for others?

[geehsien]

Seems like a good alternative for online pairing or even interviews!

[drivebyacct2]

I was hoping they'd leapfrog GitHub and allow you to stage actual commits and use something like CodeMirror to edit.

[planckscnst]

Isn't that exactly what they did?

[lucisferre]

I still find Bitbucket less usable than Github. The price is right, I suppose.

[swombat]

Sweet! So the NSA can find holes in your code even before you release it!

[ceejayoz]

Are we really going to do this on every comment thread?

[defuzz]

I fail to understand why I shouldn't use my favorite editor, I'd call it a non-feature (useless, not available from the competion because it is useless).

[mcrittenden]

I know that I've used GitHub's online editor a few times in situations where I see a quick typo I need to fix or want to make a one line change without the hassle of opening up the right directory, pulling the latest code, opening up an editor, etc etc.

[columbo]

I don't believe we'll ever see developers tossing out their IDEs to edit things through the web, but this as an API this is a huge open ended solution towards automated testing.

You are doing some clojure work, you commit it, the unit tests run and fail. Clojure can tell you exactly what function failed with what data and it could commit a file for you to execute in your repl.

Using the ability to edit/create files through a webservice means the CI server running the Clojure tests could dynamically add or edit files showing the real failure over some pretty-print error message. You could check into the branch and open up user_104_error.clj and see the data that caused the problem.

When you solve the problem the CI server could automatically delete these files from the git repository, or maybe keep them around just to keep testing them.

Automated code modification into the version control system really could be interesting new ground in continuous integration and testing.

That and just last week I committed a file with the javascript url hardcoded to http://localhost/sit/js/api.js and wanted to change that back before anyone noticed.

[laurent123456]

When I want to quickly update a readme file or comment, I find it convenient to be able to do it directly in Github (and now Bitbucket).

[elithrar]

> "not available from the competition..."

GitHub has this feature, FWIW.

[drivebyacct2]

Please. make. new. accounts. read-only.