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As somebody not using this, it looks like the main obstacles to this getting popular (assuming it works as advertised and it's easy to use, I wouldn't know): - Work on the pitch and clearly state the problem this is solving instead of mainly talking about the competition. What makes this unique? Why should people care? - Make it easy to start using this for teams. My guess is that this is where a lot of developers fa…
This is a chicken and egg problem and I don't see a way out of it. Even if Pijul is better (not voicing an opinion here), it's not drastically better enough to replace Git in widespread use in the near term. The difference in day to day use is not huge. And it is better in handling certain merge situations that are painful in git, but most programmers don't run into these often enough to care. > What makes this uniqu…
Back when git had their chicken-and-egg problem, there were hundreds if not thousands of FOSS project members independently starting threads on mailing lists about how and/or when to move to git. Many of them were already using the git web server thingy and manually syncing with svn or whatever.
Some contrarians aside, the general consensus at that time was, "Yes, that clearly does solve some real pains we currently experience on a regular basis (branching, local branching, renaming files, etc.), but how do we practically move to it?"
Practically moving to it required the infrastructure. So you had a classic chicken and egg problem, until whatever broke it (sourceforge adding git compatibility? github?).
With Pijul you have a small number of adherents who have trouble explaining the pains that Pijul addresses, much less how common those pains are in the average git project. So you haven't yet arrived at the question of how to switch to Pijul-- you're still at the question of why anyone should.
Put another way-- you don't have any potential chickens longing to be incubated in an integrated Pijul hub/CI environment. If one poofed into existence, it might hatch chickens. Then again, it might go relatively unused. So I don't have a chicken and egg problem here.