Off-topic: I found it very surprising the Logical Awesome website still works.
I'll be honest, I did too. No https cert makes it give a warning in Chrome, which I had expected to just be a 404, and was surprised when it actually worked!
I see a future in jj
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Re: I see a future in jj
#22Since JJ has technically git compat, I think there's 2 things needed for it to take off 1. A good vscode extension (there's two so-so ones that I'm not sure are being updated) 2. LLM knowledge. I ask gpt-5 about doing something in jj the other day, it didn't even recognize it at first. When I reminded it it was a vcs it hallucinated half the commands. I ended up figuring it out myself from the docs
You're kind of right about LLM knowledge but the implication is funny. We just cant be expected to learn new things without LLMs...
What a terrible world we're barrelling towards when "LLMs don't know about it" is considered a blocker towards something taking off. Read a blog post, read a man page (which GP says was indeed their solution), or just play with the dang tool, I assure you these things are still possible without the assistance of a predictive text engine helping you!
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#23At the risk of being unreasonably negative, stuff like this just makes me feel... tired. Git is... fine. I'm sure it doesn't solve every problem for everyone, and oh boy does it still have many rough edges, but it works and (as the article points out), git has won and is widely adopted. I've extensively used CVS and Subversion in the past. I touched Mercurial and Bazaar when I ran into a project that used it. I remem…
I used to think this, too. Tried jj a few times before it clicked.
It’s very liberating in some ways, in others it’s simply no worse than git. You can do everything you can do with git, but some of those things don’t require multiple steps or n repeats of the same action. jj rebase + commitable conflicts + jj undo = freedom and peace of mind.
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#24I’m just sad pijul doesn’t get the same attention or love from the community. It desperately needs an ability to colocate with git.
Re: I see a future in jj
#25Since JJ has technically git compat, I think there's 2 things needed for it to take off 1. A good vscode extension (there's two so-so ones that I'm not sure are being updated) 2. LLM knowledge. I ask gpt-5 about doing something in jj the other day, it didn't even recognize it at first. When I reminded it it was a vcs it hallucinated half the commands. I ended up figuring it out myself from the docs
I do think that GUI stuff is important, there's a lot of folks who have said "not interested unless there's a magit equivalent" which I totally understand. I'm not a big GUI person for VCS myself, so I don't feel the same pain. For LLMs, yeah this is hard for any new project. I use Claude Code, and it does a decent job with jj, it only tries to do git stuff sometimes. I haven't asked ChatGPT about it though, I'll hav…
Since they guy behind it works at Google, I wonder if gemini is better at it.
Re: I see a future in jj
#26At the risk of being unreasonably negative, stuff like this just makes me feel... tired. Git is... fine. I'm sure it doesn't solve every problem for everyone, and oh boy does it still have many rough edges, but it works and (as the article points out), git has won and is widely adopted. I've extensively used CVS and Subversion in the past. I touched Mercurial and Bazaar when I ran into a project that used it. I remem…
I used to think the same way about jj not too long ago. I even wrote a few comments here similar to yours, but since then I’ve changed my mind.
For me, the turning point was realizing that jj actually eased some of the frustrations I had with our rebase workflow at work. It took a while for it to click, but now I wouldn’t want to go back
Re: I see a future in jj
#27I guess I see what the author was trying to convey talking about Rust/Go at the start but I'll admit it confused the hell out of me when we got to Jj (horrible name IMHO but whatever). Jj is a VCS, it was not at all clear (to me) until I got further and I was very confused as to why we were talking so much about source control (I thought Jj was a language since the article started by talking about Rust/Go). Apparentl…
The full name is Jujutsu, but I think "jj" did come first. "j" is nice because on QWERTY keyboards, not only is it on the home row, it is one of the two keys that has a little tactile marker (bump) on it.
Re: I see a future in jj
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
So for me, the most compelling thing about jj is that it is somehow simpler than git, while also being more powerful than git. What I mean by simpler is, there's fewer features, which makes things easier to pick up, because these features fit together in a way that's more coherent than git's. By more powerful, I mean jj lets me regularly do things that are possible, but annoying and/or difficult in git. I loved git.…
As someone who loves git, has always thought the criticisms about its interface were overstated... but also feels like it maybe has too many incoherent ways of doing things, this is the best sales pitch I could've asked for (and I came to the comments to ask for a sales pitch). Thanks - I'll try jj out the next time I start a hobby project.
You're welcome, and feel free to let me know how it goes. There is an adjustment period, for sure, and (in another eerie parallel to Rust) some folks try it, bounce off, and try again later, and it sticks then.
The auto-commit behavior was one of my biggest concerns when starting, but it turns out that when combined with other things, I'm a huge fan now, for example.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I do think that GUI stuff is important, there's a lot of folks who have said "not interested unless there's a magit equivalent" which I totally understand. I'm not a big GUI person for VCS myself, so I don't feel the same pain. For LLMs, yeah this is hard for any new project. I use Claude Code, and it does a decent job with jj, it only tries to do git stuff sometimes. I haven't asked ChatGPT about it though, I'll hav…
Since they guy behind it works at Google, I wonder if gemini is better at it.
I don't think Google is best though of as a singular entity, I'd very seriously doubt that if it is, it's because of this.
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