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We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

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Re: We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

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Post by pjc50 »

gyulai wrote: post #74
uwagar wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i am actually fine with how svn works.

> i am actually fine with how svn works. I came here to say precisely that. I was on svn before git was a thing, and I've never moved off it for any projects where I get to decide such things. To a first approximation, one could say that distributed version control is a problem nobody ever had, and nobody ever intends to have. (GitHub is the world's centralized monorepo.) Yet, distributed version control is the major…

Well, one person did: git exactly replicated the patch email system that Linus Torvalds was using.

Re: We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

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Post by KaiserPro »

pu_pe wrote: post #93

I actually believe we need to rethink Git for modern needs. Saving prompts and sessions alongside commits could become the norm for example, or I could imagine having different flags for whether a contribution was created by a human or not. This doesn't seem to be the direction these guys are going though, it looks like they think Git should be more social or something.

> I could imagine having different flags for whether a contribution was created by a human or not.

Only useful if it can be reliably verified, which is challenging at best.

The point of git is that it has strong authentication built into the fabric of the thing.

Re: We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

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Post by IshKebab »

tmountain wrote: post #125

I personally feel that: 1) Git is fine 2) I would not want to replace critical open source tooling with something backed by investor capital from its inception. Sure, it will be “open source “, but with people throwing money behind it, there’s a plan to extract value from the user base from day one. I’m tired of being “the product”. Critical open source tooltips by should spring from the community, not from corporate…

Git is fine. I would like something better than fine though, especially for dealing with rebase/merge conflicts where I would say Git is mediocre.

Re: We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

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Post by mi_lk »

justincormack wrote: post #151
dwb wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, it’s fantastic. I have a post-tool-use hook for Claude Code to snapshot the repository for every edit. It’s like the built in file history feature but native in my VCS and works for my edits too. Don’t want to froth too much but JJ is my favourite piece of software in a while, and the fact that it’s not VC-funded is a major plus point.

Its VC funded https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2076429/000207642925...

that's a company built on top of Jujutsu, not jj itself

Re: We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

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Post by IshKebab »

tiffanyh wrote: post #42

A lot of people seem confused about how they raised the money, but it’s actually a pretty easy VC pitch. - It’s from one of GitHub’s cofounders. - GitHub had a $7.5B exit. - And the story is: AI is completely changing how software gets built, with plenty of proof points already showing up in the billions in revenue being made from things like Claude Code, Cusor, Codex, etc. So the pitch is basically: back the team th…

They actually started before the LLM craze. The original pitch was just better Git.

Re: We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

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Post by reverius42 »

flomo wrote: post #142
reverius42 wrote: post #115

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Maybe you're not a parent. To me, this sounds like arguing against the existence of the dishwasher by saying "of all the major problems of society, washing dishes by hand isn't one."

What a ridiculous statement from an obviously over-privleged phony. You are actually doubling-down on being completely isolated. Kids face a lot of new problems these days. They also face some old one, like sorting their legos.

Sometimes you put the kids to bed before they've cleaned up the legos, because it's getting late.

Then you step on a lego.

Re: We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

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Post by piokoch »

fxtentacle wrote: post #15

I feel like I really need to learn how to raise money. For $17M, one could probably build a vacuum robot prototype that’ll also clean up all of the kids toys and sort LEGO bricks by colour and size. Parents worldwide would love it. But instead, we get a replacement for Git. And I didn’t even bother to click the link because I’m fine with how Git works. On the list of pain points in my life, “what comes after Git” has…

On the other side, people who were using, say, Perforce, also thought there can't be anything better. Still, BitKeeper appeared as an innovation in the area, eaten later by Git, created by angry Linus (because of BitKeeper licencing changes).

So, even though Git seems to be ok (people who store large binary files or who run huge monorepos would probably disagree), maybe we can do better.

Altavista was kind of okeish for search, yet Google managed to figure out something that was (at that time) way better.

Re: We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

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Post by globular-toast »

materielle wrote: post #89
ergocoder wrote: post #14

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Linus built git in 8 days or something.

No he didn’t. He built a proof of concept demo in 7 days then handed it off to other maintainers to code for real. I’m not sure why this myth keeps getting repeated. Linus himself clarifies this in every interview about git. His main contributions were his ideas. 1) The distributed model, that doesn’t need to dial the internet. 2) The core data structures. For instance, how git stores snapshots for files changes in a…

He did what needed to be done. Linux similarly has thousands of contributors and Linus's personal "code contribution" is almost negligible these days. But code doesn't matter. Literally anyone can generate thousands of lines of code that will flip bits all day long. What matters is some combination of the following: a vision, respect from peers earned with technical brilliance, audaciousness, tenacity, energy, dedication etc. This is what makes Linus special. Not his ability to bash on a keyboard all day long.
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