Martin (the jj creator) recently gave a talk at the Git Merge 2024 conference:
https://youtu.be/LV0JzI8IcCY?si=Pun7WJp4ZWvHq-3G
Steve's Jujutsu Tutorial
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#32One of my favorite people talking about my single favorite tool of the past 3+ years. Up there with (above, really) zellij and helix for changing my daily life.
Helix, the editor? How would you pitch it?
Zellij looks powerful but also a bit too complex, following the "kitchen sink" school of design :-). No biggie but its name is too close to IntelliJ imho. What kind of workflow do you use with it?
I used tmux a bit back in the day, but these days I feel like good old tabs and app windows cover my needs. When I want to multiplex processes in a single window, I reach for Overmind. [1]
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#33Came here for a martial arts tutorial, which I thought was a bit weird to see front page on HN, and now I see an alternative to git. I don't particularly like git and for personal projects use fossil instead. Without going through the whole tutorial, and doing a lot more reading, why should I consider using this over fossil?
Same. I miss the old times when people tried naming their projects sensibly. I mean, we're constantly telling ourselves how variable and function names should speak for themselves, but then we name our projects using random, completely non-descript names. It's a annoying.
Which old times are you referring to / what are "sensible" names?
I thought about it and I don't know what a better name would be. Off the top of my Head, I know Perforce, BitWarden, Subversion, fossil and git. And then the abbreviations CVS, RCS and SVN.
Do any of these qualify as a descriptive name?
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#34Came here for a martial arts tutorial, which I thought was a bit weird to see front page on HN, and now I see an alternative to git. I don't particularly like git and for personal projects use fossil instead. Without going through the whole tutorial, and doing a lot more reading, why should I consider using this over fossil?
Interesting. I'm not a professional developer and also love fossil for toy/hobby projects. I find it fascinating that this well crafted, solid piece of software is so forgotten, and that git has just rolled over everything.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same. I miss the old times when people tried naming their projects sensibly. I mean, we're constantly telling ourselves how variable and function names should speak for themselves, but then we name our projects using random, completely non-descript names. It's a annoying.
Which old times are you referring to / what are "sensible" names? I thought about it and I don't know what a better name would be. Off the top of my Head, I know Perforce, BitWarden, Subversion, fossil and git. And then the abbreviations CVS, RCS and SVN. Do any of these qualify as a descriptive name?
As a British national I like to think git is a very descriptive name, because git is a git to use and understand.
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#36It's my first time encountering your writing Steve, loved it! Time to give JJ another crack...
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#37One of my favorite people talking about my single favorite tool of the past 3+ years. Up there with (above, really) zellij and helix for changing my daily life.
Helix, the editor? How would you pitch it? Zellij looks powerful but also a bit too complex, following the "kitchen sink" school of design :-). No biggie but its name is too close to IntelliJ imho. What kind of workflow do you use with it? I used tmux a bit back in the day, but these days I feel like good old tabs and app windows cover my needs. When I want to multiplex processes in a single window, I reach for Overm…
> Helix, the editor? How would you pitch it?
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same. I miss the old times when people tried naming their projects sensibly. I mean, we're constantly telling ourselves how variable and function names should speak for themselves, but then we name our projects using random, completely non-descript names. It's a annoying.
Which old times are you referring to / what are "sensible" names? I thought about it and I don't know what a better name would be. Off the top of my Head, I know Perforce, BitWarden, Subversion, fossil and git. And then the abbreviations CVS, RCS and SVN. Do any of these qualify as a descriptive name?
At one point in my career, I used Microsoft SourceSafe, which is a pretty descriptive name. Seems like the exception here, though.
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#39> I also heard friends rave about "stacked diffs" but struggled to understand what exactly was going on there. Nothing I read or conversations I had have clicked.
I wonder what it is about descriptions of stacked diffs that doesn't land - it's literally just a rebase-centric workflow instead of the merge-centric workflow popularised by GitHub et al.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which old times are you referring to / what are "sensible" names? I thought about it and I don't know what a better name would be. Off the top of my Head, I know Perforce, BitWarden, Subversion, fossil and git. And then the abbreviations CVS, RCS and SVN. Do any of these qualify as a descriptive name?
As a British national I like to think git is a very descriptive name, because git is a git to use and understand.
For a US southerner it works too. We can use the tool to 'git' our code.