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by Kye 48 days ago
I assume you don't mean Tangled is an expert martial artist. Can you translate this to not-a-dev-but-uses-git?
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DauntingPear7 48 days ago
They’re referring to the Jujutsu VCS https://docs.jj-vcs.dev/latest/
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siarune 48 days ago
Jujutsu is a git-compatible version control system
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whereistejas 48 days ago
oopsie; should have added links.

`jj` is a wrapper around git and offers a much better dev-ex for managing changes.

it has features like:

- conflicts are first class citizens

- `rebase` is the default mode; there is no need for an interactive rebase mode.

- all descendant changes automatically rebase

- a much more intuitive version of `git reflog`. in `jj`, we have `jj op log`

- cheap branching: branches in `jj` are just tags (or bookmarks) that can be moved around

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d12bb 45 days ago
> `jj` is a wrapper around git and offers a much better dev-ex for managing changes.

You are mistaken there: Git is just one (of currently two) backend of the jj version control system. It’s far from being a wrapper.

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whereistejas 41 days ago
Just because `jj` wraps around git doesn't mean it cannot have another backend. My comment doesn't imply that it only wraps around `git`. More importantly, the other backend which `jj` offers is (afaik) exclusively used at Google. Unless you are a Googler you will be using `jj` with `git`.

Also, the comment was aimed at a person who is obviously very invested in `git`. I was doing my best to offer them a description of `jj` they could swallow.

PS: pedantic people are annoying.

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jakelazaroff 48 days ago
jujutsu is a different version control system: https://www.jj-vcs.dev/
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