we do not want projects, just the repositories

[Kay Likes]

We have a team in Bitbucket and we want to create repositories. If we choose the team, it will not let us create a repository without creating a project.

The project is already in Jira, and we just need a repository created.

[Mikael Sandberg]

Hi @Kay Likes 

Welcome to the Atlassian Community.

The project in Bitbucket is just a way to organize your repositories and to allow you to set permissions and other things on a project level instead of having to do it for each repository.

[Kay Likes]

Thanks Mikael. I was wondering if there was a way to create a repository for a team without the project being a required field. I understand that it is a way to group repositories, but for small teams this seems to add just another item they need to create and track.

[Mikael Sandberg]

No, once you create a team you have to create the project, there is no way around it.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

You can keep it really simple by having one project for each repository.  It does feel a little unnecessary, but once you have set up a project with a single repo, you don't need to do any maintenance on it.  Same for one project (with one or many repos) for a team - set it up that way and forget it.