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by mcepl 297 days ago
I didn’t mean to be pedantic. My experience with Jujutsu was as bad as with Mercurial (and hg-git, I believe?) … after couple of hours working with my repo (https://git.sr.ht/~mcepl/m2crypto), looking at it with git, I got incomprehensible mess of destroyed multiple unmergeable heads (especially for Mercurial), and completely destroyed other branches, where I was not planning to work (Jujutsu). The only resolution in both case was export my work to plain patches, rm -r the checkout, clone again with git and forget anything about those other VCSes.

So, I claim that Jujutsu actually doesn’t work well with git repositories (and forges) very well, and I would like to see a native one.
2 comments
stavros 297 days ago
It works fine for my use case, all my Github repos are in the state I'd expect, and I sometimes use git in my local repos as well, and that works fine. Hell, sometimes I use jj to fix a mess I made in git.

The only issue is being in detached HEAD all the time, but in practice it's not a big problem for me.

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steveklabnik 297 days ago
I am very confused as to what happened to you here, that’s not usual.

Most of jj’s stuff is purely local. I woke on GitHub with jj just fine, the only thing people notice is that my autogenerated branch named are a bit odd.

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