How to push a local GIT repository to Bitbucket

Launch Bitbucket

Click on Repositary -> Create Repository

Enter your Repository name

Set the access level to This is a private repository

Set Repository type to GIT

Click on Create Repository

Using GIT on the command line, execute the next set of commands:

cd /path/to/my/repository
git remote add origin https://[email protected]/<username>/<repositoryname>.git
git push -u origin --all # pushes up the repo and its refs for the first time
git push origin --tags # pushes up tags