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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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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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interroboink ◴[01 Sep 25 01:18 UTC] No.45088571[source]▶
Jujutsu has many Mercurial-style features, one of them being revsets[1] - a set-notation-style DSL for selecting changesets (eg: which ones to log, etc). I have never found anything as powerful as revsets in Git.[2]

[1] https://jj-vcs.github.io/jj/latest/revsets/

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22520751/what-is-the-git...

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1. capitainenemo ◴[01 Sep 25 01:22 UTC] No.45088581[source]▶
Yeah, I'm excited by the mercurial-style features as a mercurial user looking for something to transition to in a world where git has, sadly, become the standard. The revsets were definitely a joy to discover. The main thing I'm hoping they add is mercurial's diff format which, according to the jujutsu dev discussions, is considerably better than git's, and allows for cleaner "absorb" and, apparently, the clearness of mercurial's "hg fa --deleted".

And, well, it's silly, but I do like revnums. It's a compact way to compare changes over time, even if it's only useful for the local repo. Would be nice to have those too.