Jujutsu: Different Approach to Versioning

Jujutsu: Different Approach to Versioning(thisalex.com)

12 points by indeyets 1 year ago | 2 comments

7bit 1 year ago |

The part I really liked is that the change ID is pre-defined. This makes it easy to reference it in the code that is about to be "committed"--something that git can't do because the commit's ID is the same as the content hash.

Other than that, using a different versioning system than git isn't really helpful for me personally, when the entire world uses git. Doesn't matter if Jujutsu even would be objectively better in all points.

indeyets 1 year ago | |

Well, jj is actually very nice in this regard, because:

1. it works on top of git — you keep using all the same infrastructure (GitHub, etc.) 2. in your local repositories you still have access to git-tools, as jj maintains git and its own states in sync.

After all of these months with jj I still find myself using GitUp when I need to review a long chain of commits or do some quick repo-archeology. And, from time to time, I even use Idea's merge tools because their "magic wand" saves a lot of time.

I mentioned this in the first part of series