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I see a future in jj

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bagxrvxpepzn[dead post] ◴[] No.45674167[source]
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sunshowers ◴[] No.45674208[source]
> There are no substantial technical or usability reasons to switch to JJ from Git [...]. This is a neutral impersonal opinion that is virtually a fact.

I respect your opinion, but I don't think it's a fact and I couldn't disagree any further with it. I wrote a whole testimonial about why I love jj (first one there): https://jj-vcs.github.io/jj/latest/testimonials/#what-the-us...

> it's impractical for most working programmers to switch

I don't know what you mean here. I think it's quite practical to switch to jj, and people switch over all the time. Some people are going to be earlier adopters than others, but the early adopters can bring others along (as I've been lucky to do at Oxide).

> focus on something whose main appeal is more than social

Steve and I both think that Jujutsu's appeal is far more than merely some bandwagon effect. I do think that social appeal is an important part of making a project succeed, and that projects without substantial technical merit win due to social appeal all the time, but Jujutsu has both! It's amazing!

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1. bagxrvxpepzn ◴[] No.45674760[source]
> I respect your opinion

Thank you for charitably responding to the substance of my comment and especially not whatever tone you may have perceived. I appreciate you.

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2. beaker52 ◴[] No.45676623[source]
Perhaps take a look at jj and give it a go. Maybe you’ll like it.

I know I did. The fact I can use it with git and it doesn’t interfere with any GitHub PR workflows means no-one needs to know I use it. I enjoy the jj model. Maybe you could too, and it’s not a crazy investment of time and energy. It’s an evening playing around with a code kata or something.

Then working with vcs becomes that little bit more enjoyable.