[abc123abc123]

Interesting. I'm not a professional developer and also love fossil for toy/hobby projects. I find it fascinating that this well crafted, solid piece of software is so forgotten, and that git has just rolled over everything.

[otherme123]

Same here, the fact that it includes bug tracker, web UI and wiki/docs is a huge plus.

[thiht]

Honestly you could sell me the best alternative to Git that exists and I still wouldn’t switch, or even try it. I don’t care enough about my versioning system to use something else than what everybody uses. Ubiquity beats convenience.

What I care about is the tooling around it: GitHub and its ecosystem mainly. I also want my open source projects to be on GitHub specifically, and I don’t want to ask contributors to use something other than Git.

[steveklabnik]

Totally respect you wanting to not care about tools, but for the latter part, I do agree with you, which is why I like jj: it uses a git repo as its backing store, so your projects can live on GitHub and all the rest of your collaborators can use git. Nobody else needs to know or care.

[thiht]

Wow I’ve heard about jj multiple times before but didn’t realize it was compatible with Git. You got me interested in just 1 sentence, nicely done!

Well, guess I’m on my way to read the tutorial.

[steveklabnik]

Glad to hear it! It’s a killer feature, for sure.