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Jujutsu for everyone

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434 points Bogdanp | 1 comments | 31 Aug 25 15:31 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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quectophoton ◴[31 Aug 25 16:32 UTC] No.45084466[source]▶
Would it be accurate to describe Jujutsu as "a Mercurial-inspired frontend for Git"?

Also, another question I have for people who have used Jujutsu: Is it focused on interactive use, or is it also convenient to use for automatic/non-interactive use?

For example, situations like:

* A CI/CD pipeline that periodically adds stuff to the repo, or a pipeline that modifies files when triggered by specific events.

* Server setup scripts that clone a repo with common config and then make a new commit after applying patches for host-specific changes.

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1. paradox460 ◴[31 Aug 25 16:39 UTC] No.45084541[source]▶
Not really, but it's a strong enough description that people who know what both are would understand

JJ is a whole new VCS, that just so happens to be backwards compatible with git, and currently uses git as it's storage engine

It builds atop the knowledge we gained since mercurial and git were both new, not making mistakes that the others made, as well as knowledge from newer VCS systems like fig and sapling