Bitbucket Browse Code Plugin

Inspiration

Bitbucket is a great SCM tool, but browsing the source to a specific commit was a little bit hard.

What it does

This plugin is a fork and rework of the former "Stash Browse Code Plugin". It was updated to enable it with the later 4.+ versions of Bitbucket Server (Stash is now Bitbucket Server). This plugin adds a "Browse Code" Link which navigates the user to a view of the repository at a certain point in time - specifically the status of the repo from the selected commit's point of view. In other words: This is some kind of a time machine cause its reverting back to a different point in time of what the repo looked like at the time of that commit. Simple solution but very helpful and effective in programmers daily work.

How I built it

Version 1.0.0 was written by Charles O'Farrell, https://bitbucket.org/cofarrell/stash-browse-code-plugin My Version 2.0.0 started as a fork and ended up in an updated version to work with the latest Bitbucket Servers. You can find it here: https://bitbucket.org/teufelm/bitbucket-browse-code-plugin. Here you can download the plugin-jar which you can directly install into your Bitbucket Server. Yeah !

It is available at the Atlassian Marketplace now. Take a look at this: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.teufel.bitbucket.plugin.bitbucket-browse-code-plugin/server/overview

Challenges I ran into

Learning and understanding Soy, get a deeper look into how Atlassians APIs work

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

The first time I fixed and improved code from another guy. And in case of winning something here in this competition (i dont think this will happen but its worth a try) I will share everything with Charles O'Farrell because of his wonderful idea and his first version which was originally written for the Stash Product renamed into Bitbucket Server now.