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by rob74 550 days ago
Yes, but the usefulness of "something new that replaces Git" would be severely limited by the fact that, well, everybody uses Git. And taking on Git is a task as daunting as, let's say, launching a new mobile OS and wanting to compete with iOS and Android. Jujutsu is gaining traction precisely because it can work on top of a Git repo, so people you are collaborating with don't even have to know that you are using it. Maybe Git experts don't need it, but I am an expert in programming who doesn't want to have to know every idiosyncrasy of the VCS tool I have to use in order to do my job...