Transfering ownership of bitbucket repository

Question

I am responsible for taking over a react-native application as a freelancer from a previous freelancer.

What is the best way to go about doing this?

Once the previous freelancer transfers the ownership of the repo to me, should I then change passwords related to database, API keys etc?

Answer 1

should I then change passwords related to database, API keys etc?

Only if those credentials were part of the repository itself, in which case:

• not only should you change them post-haste
• but you should make sure to purge the history of the repository of said credentials (using the new tool git filter-repo which replaces BFG and git filter-branch.
• and establish third-party external referentials to store/access those credentials (like a Hashicorp Vault)

If said credentials were not part of the Git repository, then rotating/refreshing them is orthogonal of any ownership transfer.
It is simply a good practice, but not tied to the repository itself.