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Jujutsu for everyone

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434 points Bogdanp | 5 comments | 31 Aug 25 15:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.943s | source
1. hu3 ◴[01 Sep 25 00:13 UTC] No.45088275[source]▶
Personally I don't think adding a layer on top of git is a good idea.

I know it's hard to break git's hegemony but it would be much more powerful and less constrained to build on top of a new foundation.

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2. dcre ◴[01 Sep 25 02:24 UTC] No.45088871[source]▶
jj’s design is not constrained by git. git is one possible backend, but you don’t even need to use jj with git. I will eat a shoe if you can name something jj is prevented from doing by its relation to git.
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3. KingMob ◴[01 Sep 25 03:47 UTC] No.45089270[source]▶
You might be interested in pijul then, which has a theory of patches that is interesting.
4. hu3 ◴[01 Sep 25 07:15 UTC] No.45090291[source]▶
Interesting. How can I use jj without git?
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5. tfsh ◴[01 Sep 25 11:13 UTC] No.45091714{3}[source]▶
Right now there's no active public backends, there are a few prolific JJ contributors who are working on their own forge though (https://ersc.io).

At Google, JJ is natively supported for interfacing with the monorepo, this is where the proof of being backend agnostic comes from. Hopefully as the network effects catches on we'll see more and more of a desire for 3P forges.