I just started using Bitbucket as a new service to host masters of my source code repositories using Git. If you develop with Grails (like I also do more often) and ever asked yourself how to create a Git repository out of an existing project, here is the solution. Prerequisits Of course you need to have Git installt locally on your machine. If you haven't here are instructions on how to do it (if your a Mac user, I find this Mac OS X installer very useful). Of course you also need an account for bitbucket.org . It's free and easy to set up. In addition to your account you need to create an empty repository. Follow the guidance on the Bitbucket site, it's quite easy. Prepare your grails project As you do not want to store all your files in the repository, you need to create a so called .gitignore file. To do so, you can use a grails command: > grails integrate-with --git Afterwards, the .gitignore file has been created. If you are using the Grovy & Gr