Jujutsu For Busy Devs | maddie, wtf?!
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“Jujutsu (jj) is a version control system with a significantly simplified mental model and command-line interface compared to Git, without sacrificing expressibility or power (in fact, you could argue Jujutsu is more powerful). Stacked-diff workflows, seamless rebases, and ephemeral revisions are all natural with jj […]”

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  • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.orgOP
    11·
    6 days ago

    jujutsu changes a lot of the affordances to manage changes and I understand that many people will be reluctant to use such a changed interface - for one, after they have spent so much time with learning the git CLI, and also because there are dozens of alternative git UIs and VCSes which claim to offer something simpler.

    But: jujutsu offers about similar power and flexibility as git, while requiring much less UI complexity. The proof for this is the much, much smaller amount of required documentation as well as practice before one can work productively with it.

    All the changed elements give a very orthogonal and cohesive whole, which is very rare for software of that complexity.

    Will this work for everyone? Probably not, that happens extremely rarely.

    Will many people pick it up on a whim? No, change does not happen that way. In the ideal case, a kind of logistic function but adoption will be very unlikely to be as rapid as git’s adoption.

    Will experienced git users drop the work they have to do and spend half a day to try a new tool? Some do, and this is good. Some don’t, and this is also good.

    So, no, I don’t have a problem. People have time and decide to look at something or they don’t. Both is fine.

    • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      11·
      5 days ago

      jujutsu changes a lot of the affordances to manage changes and I understand that many people will be reluctant to use such a changed interface

      You lost all credibility when you just blamed my criticism on “stockholm syndrom”. Sorry buddy.

      • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.orgOP
        1·
        5 days ago

        BTW there are two configurations / new commands that could be helpful for you:

        • there is a configuration option (auto-track='none()', already mentioned by other commenterd here) to switch off auto-adding of new files
        • there is an alias command, tug that automatically advances branches / bookmarks to the current commit / change.
      • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.orgOP
        1·
        5 days ago

        Oh, I was referring to people who do not want to believe at all there could be something easier to use than git. Probably not the best way to express this.

        I don’t know whether it fits your use case. You decide that.

        Also, jujutsu is still immature and has many rough edges.