GitKraken Desktop allows you to authenticate with Bitbucket Data Center, which will help you find repos on Bitbucket Data Center when cloning or adding your remotes.
Benefits
- Create repositories on Bitbucket Data Center including .gitignore and license
- Easily generate an SSH key pair and copy to clipboard to add to Bitbucket Data Center
- Save authentication into profiles
- Clone from Bitbucket Data Center repo list
- Add remotes for Bitbucket Data Center repos
- Create and view Pull Requests
Connecting to Bitbucket Data Center
Note 📝 – GitKraken Desktop supports any version of Bitbucket Data Center released within one year.
To authenticate with Bitbucket Data Center, navigate to the upper right corner to access Preferences Integrations
Or alternatively if you are in the New Tab view, click on See all the integrations under Integrations.
From the Integrations window, select Bitbucket Data Center. Enter your host domain URL and then click the Generate a token on Bitbucket Data Center button. Note the permissions that need to be assigned to the token on your Bitbucket Self-Hosted server.
This opens a web browser where you will log in with your Bitbucket Data Center credentials and create an access token.
Copy the token and paste it into GitKraken Desktop, then click the button.
Generating SSH keys for Bitbucket Data Center.
Note 📝 – GitKraken Desktop uses your SSH key defined in Preferences SSH for git operations unless you set up a BitBucket-specific SSH key, or enable your local SSH Agent.
Once your Bitbucket Data Center account has been connected to your GitKraken Desktop, you may then generate an SSH key and add it to your Bitbucket Data Center account from Preferences Integrations
Click and follow the toast prompt to add the key to your Bitbucket Data Center account. If you miss the toast pop-up or need to copy the public key later, you can use the link as well.
In your Bitbucket Data Center SSH keys page, click .
Paste your key and click .
OAuth integration with Bitbucket Data Center
GitKraken’s integration with Bitbucket Data Center provides handy information about your repositories.
First, you may search through your existing repositories when cloning:
Next, GitKraken Desktop presents a list of forks of the current repository when adding remotes:
Of course, you still have the option of manually entering repo URLs.
Connecting to multiple Bitbucket Data Center accounts
GitKraken connects to one Bitbucket Data Center account at a time. However, with GitKraken Pro’s multiple profile support, you can easily switch between profiles that each have their own associated Bitbucket Data Center accounts.
Bitbucket Data Center Pull Request Reviewers
Bitbucket Data Center supports pull request reviewers. GitKraken Desktop will display the list of reviewers for a pull request. In order to view the list of reviewers, you must have Project Admin permissions and connect using a token with Project Admin and Repository Admin scopes.
