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My understanding is that `git history` was started after seeing jj, yes. I don't have a citation for you though, I could be wrong, that's just what I remember.

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> “That moment when you realize that a tool simply fixes all the UI issues that you had and that you have been developing for the last 20 years was not exactly great." He had two options: despair or learn from the competition. He chose to learn from it.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1057561/ which goes on to explain that this was the motivation for git history.

"He discussed the workflow for splitting a Git commit, which involves seven separate commands with Git's current UI. Most users do not know how to do this, he said. The goal is to add several ""opinionated subcommands"" that make more modern styles of working with merge requests, such as stacked branches, much easier."

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