• @[email protected]
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    -521 days ago

    screwing up git commands

    You mean “using git.” It’s the only piece of software that I hate with Oracle. Jujutsu is a breath of fresh air and I can ignore that git ever existed.

    • Dark Arc
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      1620 days ago

      git is genuinely one of the best tools ever created. It is an extremely simple idea with crazy effectiveness and a reasonable UX that is a bit off putting at first but makes a lot of sense later on.

      That said, I’d genuinely be curious what you think jj has improved upon git.

      • @[email protected]
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        320 days ago

        The command line of jj makes sense and is easy to understand. I have to use graphical git clients because I want to cry every time I have to use its CLI.

        • Dark Arc
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          319 days ago

          That’s interesting; I find the git CLI pretty intuitive especially for basic use cases most people would need, but I’ve also used git for 15 years now.

          • @[email protected]
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            119 days ago

            I have only been using it for ~ 4 years and the UX seems pretty logical even for not-basic cases.

            Maybe because it was only my second VCS[1], it didn’t seem at all problematic to me. On the contrary, every time, I just found myself going “nice”, whenever I found a new feature.

            When it comes to git restore ., well, you won’t use rm -rf * in your working directory, right?

            I haven’t used git based GUIs much. Some of the functions that my IDE provides, I use now and then. Being able to see the git blame for a file, right in place, scrolled to the same line as I was looking at the code, helps quite a bit (and so does the git based annotations).
            But for things like commit, restore, pull, push, rebase and things that will write something, I just use the CLI, because I feel like I know what is going to happen ad that gives me confidence.


            1. the first one being folders with timestamps ↩︎

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            19 days ago

            I find the git CLI pretty intuitive

            You might be the first person to ever say that! How do I delete a remote branch?