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snthpy ◴[] No.40913276[source]
I saw a youtube talk on this a year or two ago and it looked promising. I've been waiting to see more people take it up and sing its praises. This is the first HN post I've noticed since then.

Any experiences of anyone trying it out and switching over to it?

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1. stouset ◴[] No.40915927[source]
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 now 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.