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Introduction - Steve's Tutorial on Jujutsu, an alternative front-end to git (steveklabnik.github.io)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Jujutsu is essentially an alternative front-end or "porcelain" to git, both magnificiently simplified and powerful.

I tried it after using Emacs Magit for about six or seven years, and jujutsu is really easier to use than git and useful if one wants a tidy public history of changes (with "tidy" and "public" as Linus Torvalds recommends). Plus it is fully compatible to git as backend - other contributors will not even note you are using it.

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[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 7 points 23 hours ago (9 children)

other contributors will not even note you are using it.

Ooooh, that's interesting.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Technically true - but it looks like jj does a lot of history re-writing which would require a lot of care to be taken when working on a shared codebase.

The page on remotes has some cautions in it.

We need the --allow-backwards flag to set the trunk branch to the previous commit because it is a dangerous operation: if we had pushed trunk, things would get weird when we try and push now. We've kept it all local, so there's no issues with doing this.

[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

jj by default refuses to change any commits on published branches such as a master branch that has been pushed. The details are configurable.

BTW that's why I linked Linus Torvalds mail on when and why to rewrite history - it is good advice.

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