[oofbey]

Thanks for that context. Why would I want to use it instead of git?

[gpm]

Because it's nicer tool to use. To borrow someone else's descriptions (paraphrased), it's simultaneously simpler than git and more powerful than git. Some things that were a source of friction in git (e.g. any non trivial rebase) just stop being so.

[WolfeReader]

Easier CLI, deferred conflict resolution, megamerge workflow, an "undo" command which is like a gift from the gods.

[steveklabnik]

Here's what I wrote about it eight days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45673808

Lots of other opinions in that thread too.

[thibran]

auto rebase, simple undo (jj undo), no staging area, easy splitting and merging

[stonogo]

Because you work for Google, or because you don't want to wait for official git to be rewritten in Rust.

[jeffbee]

As I recall, git5 was such a piece of junk that they deleted it so nobody could use it any more. It had its fans but they were all deluded. It was a demonstrated fact that git5 users were less productive than normal g4 users.

[gpm]

What is/was "git5"? Git the vcs is only about to release version 3.0... Googling only reveals some gene that happens to be named that...

[jeffbee]

It was a way to pretend that you were using git when you were in fact using piper.

[bugsliker]

it’s an old google internal interface over google’s vcs piper that let you use git to manage your changes

[skirmish]

The big problem with it was that you had to specify upfront which directories you will be editing, and only those were cloned locally. Later if you wanted to add a quick debug printout somewhere else, you would spend 20 minutes tracking more directories and merging / rebasing branches. All because git choked on the huge monorepo.