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by thiht 614 days ago
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.

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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.
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.

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