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Jujutsu for everyone

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434 points Bogdanp | 2 comments | 31 Aug 25 15:31 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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marcuskaz ◴[31 Aug 25 16:14 UTC] No.45084298[source]▶
> Jujutsu is more powerful than Git. Despite the fact that it's easier to learn and more intuitive, it actually has loads of awesome capabilities for power users that completely leave Git in the dust.

Like? This isn't explained, I'm curious on why I would want to use it, but this is just an empty platitude, doesn't really give me a reason to try.

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1. jennyholzer ◴[31 Aug 25 16:16 UTC] No.45084316[source]▶
I agree. I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt to some extent because existing Git UIs are pretty poor in my opinion. But I'd like to see some more meat on the bone, in particular a demonstration of why this is easier/more powerful/more convenient to use than the alternatives.
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2. tcoff91 ◴[31 Aug 25 17:08 UTC] No.45084835[source]▶
The main thing that makes it more powerful imo is that you can accomplish insane rebases with 1 command that would be really difficult with git.

Like let’s say you have 4 separate PRs in review that have no dependency on each other. You then work on new stuff on top of an octopus merge of all 4. You are exploring different approaches to a solution so you have several anonymous branches where you have tried different things. You want to rebase on master, so you just run jj rebase -d master. All 4 PR branches, the octopus merge, the anonymous branches, they all get rebased with that 1 command. If there are conflicts the first class conflicts mean that you can fix the conflicts whenever you want. If one of your experimental anonymous branches is in conflict but you are unlikely to go with that approach, just leave it in a conflicted state unless you change your mind that you want to actually go that direction.