Summary

This article goes over setting repository privacy at the project level to prevent a repository from being set to public.

Solution

Workspace and project admins can set all existing projects to private so that users cannot change the repository privacy (public/private).

1. Navigate to your workspace (https://bitbucket.org/yourWorkspaceID/workspace/overview/)
2. Click Projects
3. Choose a project and Navigate to the Project Settings.
4. Enable the option Private project* and click Save Project.

By making the project private, the repository privacy for new and existing repositories cannot be changed at the repository level. This can help safeguard a repository from accidentally being set to public.

*Please note that all repositories in the project must be independently set to private before the project can be set to private.