Edit your code in the cloud with bitbucket

Re:Edit your code in the cloud with bitbucket by rschmitty on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @09:01AM (#5867819)

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

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Re:Edit your code in the cloud with bitbucket by otherdave on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @09:12AM (#5867864)

I've used GitHub's online edit for this very reason, but mostly for other people's repos. If I'm reading a README or docs to figure out if I like a library or want to use it I'll submit pull requests from my browser to fix typos or unclear/incorrect sections.

It wasn't a critical update, but one that wouldn't have happened if I had to fork/clone/push/pull-request it.

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Re:Edit your code in the cloud with bitbucket by inthewind on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @09:11AM (#5867861)

If using the web interface feels better for something like that, it shows just how bad the alternative is. It's not nice when something like source control feels like it gets in the way, but it could be mitigated by having better/easier client tools.

I totally get why you'd want to do that.

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Re:Edit your code in the cloud with bitbucket by estebank on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @10:11AM (#5868148)

So you are saying git gets in the way? I'm curious about why that is the case.

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Re:Edit your code in the cloud with bitbucket by inthewind on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @10:31AM (#5868253)

I didn't know if they used git or hg, and I wasn't necessarily having a go at either. The poster obviously thought that there was less friction to an online edit, so you have to ask yourself why that is?

Perhaps they don't like fiddling about on the command line, their IDE is too klunky, file managment is a pain, their version control interface is convulted, or they are not sitting at their computer with their codebase - who knows!

Either way they appear to find it easier that way.

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Re:Edit your code in the cloud with bitbucket by tudborg on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @11:07AM (#5868470)

Or maybe the issue tracking system is a web tool that links to the file in the repository and you could fix it with a click to edit instead of pull,open file,fix,commit,push.

Documentation or fixes to comments in code is an obvious usecase for online edits cross-language.

If you'd really rather do the pull,open,fix,commit,push i would argue that you are too stuck in your own ways.

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Re:Edit your code in the cloud with bitbucket by pbreit on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @07:50PM (#5871479)

Uh...you have to clone a whole project to make a simple little edit?

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Re:Edit your code in the cloud with bitbucket by kmfrk on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @10:15AM (#5868169)

Exactly.

It's only a useless feature, if you think people who don't think a service by BitBucket will ever be used by people unfamiliar with git and programming.

I for one am very pleased with the opportunity for crowd-sourcing fixes and improvements to open-source websites and projects - especially for people whose interest in them is not grounded in the programming aspect.

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Re:Edit your code in the cloud with bitbucket by metaphorm on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @11:30AM (#5868590)

how many non-programmers are poking around in code repositories?

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Re:Edit your code in the cloud with bitbucket by recursive on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @12:07PM (#5868805)

I don't really know how to use git, but I am a programmer. I use github a little bit though. To me, this is great.

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Re:Edit your code in the cloud with bitbucket by vitriolix on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @12:40PM (#5869019)

many. PMs on several projects I work in do regularly

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