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jj is a pretty nifty VCS - certainly worth looking in to. A lot of the concepts run parallel to Maiao I _think_, I'm still learning jujitsu myself.

A couple questions:

1) what's the name about? 2) does this get wicked messy if I'm the only one on my team using Maiao?

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1. It's explained in the README [1]. Tl;dr: Maiao is a "remote, sparsely populated volcanic atoll in French Polynesia"

2. I don't think so. The main difference from maiao to other stacked diffs projects is that it _progressively enhances_ GitHub. At the end of the day you just get PRs with branch #3 -> branch #2 -> branch #1 -> main. So, a bit of automation and rebases to do this. Because teams rarely can choose their forge, the intent is to not force org-wide change — e.g., change the VCS to jj — nor introduce more API/UI surface. You can be the only one doing stacked diffs in your team. Nothing breaks.

1 - https://github.com/runetes/maiao/#why-maiao

jj can work with git as its storage, so all of its commits are git commits, so a jj-local and git-remote flow is fully supported. I use it, and as far as I know I'm the only one on my team doing so.

Thanks! Sorry about 1, I was worried I had missed it in the readme, I was hopping all over the docs pages before coming back to the post lol

Very cool stuff, will be trying it out

jj support doesn't force an org-wide change. jj is compatible with git. It's just that the mental model is more aligned to Gerrit and stacked PRs.

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