MadCap Flare and Bitbucket

[Merve Nur Bas]

Hello lovely people, 

I wondered it there is any documentation on how to use MadCap Flare with Git via Bitbucket. Do any of you have experiences in that matter?

I would appreciate any help! 

Thank you and have a nice start to the week!

Regards,

Merve

[Ana Retamal]

Hi Merve, good day to you too!

We don't have any documentation on how to set up MadCap Flare with Bitbucket, I've done some research but I also couldn't find any useful information online. I'm not familiar with MadCap so I won't be able to give you any instructions or tips, but if you tell us where are you having difficulties, or if you're getting any errors, maybe we'll be able to help :) Sending some screenshots will also help. 

Let us know if there's anything we can do.

Kind regards,

Ana

[Merve Nur Bas]

Hey Ana, 

thanks for the response. Actually, I didn't try it yet. I just wanted to acquire information before I try to connect the tools. 

But if I get any errors, I will come back to this post again. 

Thanks again. Kind regards, 

Merve

[Merve Nur Bas]

Hey @Ana Retamal , well another, more high level, bitbucket-newby question then... Does every user have to locally install git in order to use Bitbucket? When the conneted tool is able to perform git commands, do each and every user still have to install git locally?

Many thanks in advance! Always great to see that the Atlassian Team cares :)

Regards

Merve

[Ana Retamal]

Hi Merve, we do care! Sometimes it's difficult to please all of our users, but we try :) 

In regards to your question, Bitbucket is made to work with content that has been versioned either with Git or Mercurial, so if those users will be interacting with the repositories (downloading them to their computers, making changes, etc), they'll need to have one of those installed on their machine. Note that the versioning systems are not interchangeable, so if a repository has been versioned in Git, all of the users working on it will have to use Git (technically, it would be possible to have different users using different version control systems on a same repository, but this adds a lot of complexity that I'd recommend avoiding unless extremely necessary).

If you're not using the command line to manage your code, let's say you're using some other software like for example Sourcetree, Git will still need to be installed in your computer. Normally, the application should have a built-in version, and in some cases you can also install a different version of Git and tell the application to use that one. 

Hope this answers your question, Merve. Let us know if something is not clear!

Best regards,

Ana

[Merve Nur Bas]

Hi Ana, 

thanks a lot for the answer! You  helped me a lot. 

Keep up the good work. Have a nice weekeend.

Cheers, 

Merve

[Ana Retamal]

:D 

So glad to hear that, Merve! Have a nice week and don't hesitate to reach out to us if you have any more questions.

Regards,

Ana

[Luciana Bola]

Hi @Ana Retamal ,

Maybe you already found an answer...but just in case...

I think you might find what you're looking for here:

https://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare2017r3/Content/Flare/Source-Control/Git/About-Git.htm

It helped me.

Cheers,

Luciana