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Jujutsu for everyone

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idoubtit ◴[] No.45085587[source]
I've now seen a dozen of articles that explain that jj is wonderful and better than Git for everything. This tutorial is of the same kind. Now that I've read extensively about the good part, I'd be more interested by the bad and the ugly. Because my experience with jj was more balanced.

When I tried jj, I found a few pain points that made me return to Git. For instance, I was sharing a branch with a co-worker where we were just piling commits as soon as they were ready (after `pull --rebase` if necessary). Since jj doesn't have names branches, that workflow was easy with git and tedious with jj – even with the `tug` alias. The process in the "Tracking remote bookmarks" chapter of this tutorial still doesn't look nice to me.

Another pain point was that jj could not colocate with light clones, like `git clone --filter=blob:none`. Maybe that's fixed now.

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1. caspar ◴[] No.45089721[source]
Another major caveat is that JJ doesn't work with Git LFS yet - though some progress is being made: https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj/issues/80