system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Is asking a fixed-cost project software freelancer to push code to our bitbucket unreasonable?

So we're looking into bringing on a remote freelancer to work on a project for us and we requested that we set up a bitbucket repo for the contractor to push code to throughout the project. Our thinking here was that our dev team can monitor progress and ask informed questions while the project is in dev. 

We got this response from the freelancer on our request: " Also as far as bitbucket goes, since it's an end to end project, i'm not comfortable if the intermediate versions of our code is monitored. We can push code to your bitbucket repository once a deliverable is completed, which is pretty much a standard practice in the industry."

Is our request unreasonable here? Are we really asking for something outside of industry practice?
gpt
If you aren't paying him 100% in advance, then you don't get code until it's paid for. You are allowed to see a working version to ensure it does what it is supposed to and meets your expectations, then you pay for it, then you get it.