Crucible and FishEye

This page gives an overview of the joint installation of Crucible and FishEye. Both Crucible and FishEye are Atlassian products.

• FishEye allows you to extract information from your source code repository and display it in sophisticated reports.
• Crucible allows you to request, perform and manage code reviews.
• Both of these products can run in isolation. If you are using Subversion, Git, Mercurial, CVS or Perforce you can significantly enhance your Crucible experience by also using FishEye.
  • See What happens if I decide to stop using Fisheye with Crucible? to learn more.

Purchasing and installing Crucible/FishEye

• If you install Crucible, there is no need to do a separate installation of FishEye.
• Upgrading Crucible to also use FishEye requires only a simple licence change in the admin screens.
• When upgrading to Crucible when you have an existing FishEye installation, you can either keep the original FishEye installation or install Crucible and FishEye as a fresh install. Refer to the guide on upgrading from FishEye to Crucible.

The <FishEye home directory> and FISHEYE_INST

Throughout the Crucible documentation, references are made to the <FishEye home directory>, which refers to the location of the FishEye application. Because most Crucible users also run FishEye, we use a single value for the sake of simplicity and consistency with the FishEye documentation.

Crucible also makes use of this FishEye environment variable:

• FISHEYE_INST – the location of the FishEye data.

Refer to the FishEye documentation for more about the environment variables.

Installing the Crucible binary files

See the following for Crucible install instructions:

• Installing Fisheye on Windows
• Installing Fisheye on Linux and Mac

Setting up a repository for use with stand-alone Crucible

For complete instructions, see Configuring repositories.

Setting up a Repository for use with FishEye and Crucible

• If you intend to use Crucible and FishEye with Subversion, please read Supported platforms, Subversion client setup, and granting permission to FishEye to scan your repository.
• If you intend to use Crucible and FishEye with Git, please read Supported platforms and Git Client setup.
• If you intend to use Crucible and FishEye with Perforce, please read Supported platforms and Perforce Client setup.
• If you intend to use Crucible and FishEye with CVS, please read Supported platforms and CVS Client setup.
• If you intend to use Crucible and FishEye with Mercurial, please read Supported platforms and Mercurial Client setup.

Detailed Documentation

You can find more information in:

• Crucible Getting Started
• FishEye Getting started