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Comment by dotancohen

3 days ago

Bit Bucket had a git-related tool called Stash? I love Bit Bucket, but I'm glad I did not know about that.

There was a locally-hosted Git server platform called Stash. Atlassian bought it, rebranded it as "BitBucket Server" (positioned similarly to GitHub Enterprise or self-hosted GitLab) and gradually made it look and feel like BitBucket (the cloud product), even though they're actually completely separate codebases (or at least used to be).

  • But why was it ever called Stash? The word stash has particular meaning in git, and it's been that way since a very early git version.

  • That explains why it doesn't suck nearly as much as Jira and Confluence...