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I really like the idea of Jujutsu and was really keen to try it out but when I looked at it several months back I found it really hard to get going with it and ended up just ditching it. This article looks to be a explanation to some of the concepts of `jj` and how to use it in a little more depth than some of the other tutorials I have seen out there. Definitely keen to give it another try at some point

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On the flip side, I expected it to be a bigger migration than it was. But I was using it effectively as a complete git replacement the very first day.

I still had a few things I didn’t know how to do optimally, but it was close enough to be productive. Within a week I’d closed basically all of the gaps.

It’s been three or so months and I’m never going back. It’s been so transformative I can barely remember all the innumerable frustrations and papercuts I used to put up with daily. Rebase conflicts. Juggling the stash. Ugh.

I say this as someone who considered themselves extremely proficient with git. I mean, I wrote a compatible Ruby implementation of it over a decade and ago.

If it gains momentum, jj has a better chance than anything I’ve seen at finally dethroning git.

"New VCS, but Git is a first-class backend" is an amazingly smart decision. It's the only chance you actually have of supplanting git. It's a new VCS with enough workflow benefit to be worth making a user switch (in contrast to most git alternate command lines) but provides an easy migration path where you don't have to make a "whole repository" decision. It's an individual engineer decision, that still allows using your existing servers (Github/lab).

Same here, exact same here !

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