Definition of Public vs. Private?

[Charles Gage]

I am trying to get a clear definition of "public" vs. "private" when it comes to Bitbucket Projects and Repositories.

Atlassian documentation states a public project and/or repo can be "seen by anyone."  

Does that mean "anyone in the world on the internet with a URL link" or only those who have access to my BB workspace?

My goal is to create a Project for my company, put Repositories subordinate to the Project and have all of this restricted to just our company and to users who have userids that I have added to Bitbucket.  I don't want this "open to the world."

Thanks for any clarification you may offer!

[Blue Ridge Consultants · Accepted solution]

Yes - anyone with the URL to the repo on the public internet can reach that repo via the web with no login required.

[Charles Gage]

Yikes!  I need to fix that!

Thanks for the update!

Chuck

[Pon Pricha]

Is it possible to create the public repositories under private project?

[Pon Pricha]

Yesterday, I've created a repository under private project. The default is private repository. Now I can't clone the repo on another machine without ssh key. While the old repositories are clonable without ssh key setting. This means the old repositories are public inside the private project. Then I've tried to update the repository to be public but it's grayed out which means I could not. Any help or suggestion on how to change the repository from private to public under the private project. Thank you. The is the error I had when cloning.

Unauthorized
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.