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The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC

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Re: The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC

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post #35

jj is one of the few new devtools I was quite frustrated with while starting out but could see the value so stuck around and man is it so nice. For anyone curious the big thing with jj is you can undo. Basically if you were running a rebase and bungled a commit sha or branch name, no worries undo your way out, if you forgot to push but abandoned a commit not issues undo it. Same with all jj commands. Delta db takes t…

Are you saying push + undo = unpush?

Re: The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC

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post #41

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Without having tried JJ, as a hype chaser, I can say it's both worth it and not worth it.

I run NixOS, work with Kubernetes, code Rust, use a 40% split, layered keyboard with Dvorak layout and open source firmware, kaj mi parolas Esperanton.

They're just hobbies that, once you've sunk the hours in, they're awesome.

I don't actually type faster. Or maybe I do type a little faster because it made me use all 12 fingers instead of the ad-hoc 7-finger system you taught yourself in primary school, but typing was never a bottleneck, and split keyboards actually hurt my wrists more.

Jujutsu is marginally better than git, but costs time. If you like to spend the time, it will probably make you a little better. If you care deeply about your time, and it's already being allocated for anything but arbitrary intellectual pursuit, it's not worth it. Some people grow businesses, plants, or sedentary habits.

Re: The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not so much that we will prevent individuals from using the product, we are just focusing feature development on the needs of companies and teams. Startups are hard, and you have to focus, and so that's where we are focusing first.

Will you prevent individuals from using the product by requiring a sales call for onboarding? (aka: decisions that have nothing to do with individuals at all, but merely rule them out by intrinsically not being something they can achieve)

As we initially roll out we will be doing that, yes. The reason is that our initial offering is enterprise shaped, and so won't have a self-service onboarding. Eventually we will not require the white gloves, but you have to start somewhere.

Re: The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC

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post #12

Someone will have to explain the value proposition to me... We have git. jujutsu works with git. git can do everything jujutsu can do (otherwise, jujutsu couldn't work with git). Thus, jujutsu is a UX / new steering wheel. ERSC is trying to be a GitHub competitor with what surplus value? Don't get me wrong, GitHub has a slew of its own problems, but I have not seen any commentary on how ERSC addresses any of the down…

We'll be saying more about this very soon, but the short version is this: we are not building a GitHub competitor in the way that SourceHut or Codeberg are. We are building infrastructure for enterprises, not a social coding site. While jj works with git, it doesn't have to. jj has the ability to work with many backends. Git is the popular one in the open source world, but that doesn't mean that other ones are not po…

Are you guys hiring? (Software Engineer that writes in Rust.)

Re: The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC

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post #42
post #35

jj is one of the few new devtools I was quite frustrated with while starting out but could see the value so stuck around and man is it so nice. For anyone curious the big thing with jj is you can undo. Basically if you were running a rebase and bungled a commit sha or branch name, no worries undo your way out, if you forgot to push but abandoned a commit not issues undo it. Same with all jj commands. Delta db takes t…

Are you saying push + undo = unpush?

AFAIKT it will revert the local state to "pending push".

Re: The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC

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Jujutsu is apparently the name of a version control system, for anyone else confused how the creator of a thousand year old martial art had joined them.

Thanks, I was trying to work it out in my head. I knew brazilian jiu jitsu was 20th century, and I was like "but wait, is jiu jitsu itself not that much older, that seems very surprising."
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