Switch to Jujutsu Already: A Tutorial
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Switch to Jujutsu Already: A Tutorial
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Re: Switch to Jujutsu Already: A Tutorial
#2I have been trying Jujutsu for a few weeks. It's cool and I like trying new things. I wouldn't say that it's so much better than git, though; there is nothing that I miss in the projects where I use git.
On the other hand, I have issues with Jujutsu, one of which completely prevents me from using it in some projects:
* No support for git submodules. One can dislike submodules as much as they want, if I need to contribute to a repository using them, I can't use Jujutsu.
* The signing support is very annoying with a security key. Even if I configure 'sign-on-push', it will access the security key every time it tries to check the signature, which is pretty much every `jj st` or `jj log` after something has changed locally. I don't need to check my own signatures, IMO they should be checked on fetch and on push.
* There is no way to configure a 'defaultKeyCommand' like in git, which I now rely on (because I have multiple security keys).
Re: Switch to Jujutsu Already: A Tutorial
#3I have been trying Jujutsu for a few weeks. It's cool and I like trying new things. I wouldn't say that it's so much better than git, though; there is nothing that I miss in the projects where I use git. On the other hand, I have issues with Jujutsu, one of which completely prevents me from using it in some projects: * No support for git submodules. One can dislike submodules as much as they want, if I need to contri…
Yeah, it sounds like you have specific requirements that don't let you use jj until it gets support for those. That's fair.
Re: Switch to Jujutsu Already: A Tutorial
#4I really loved jujutsu for the few weeks that I used it.
However, I did find all my tools that rely on Git (eg Gitlab CLI that can open merge request from the current branch) breaking because JJ operations result in detached head in Git.
In addition, mixing Git and JJ will result in your repos becoming really slow when you do need to run some Git operation.
Re: Switch to Jujutsu Already: A Tutorial
#5I really loved jujutsu for the few weeks that I used it. However, I did find all my tools that rely on Git (eg Gitlab CLI that can open merge request from the current branch) breaking because JJ operations result in detached head in Git. In addition, mixing Git and JJ will result in your repos becoming really slow when you do need to run some Git operation.
Hm, I can't speak to the tools, I imagine you're right. I haven't found any slowness, though. Why would jj slow git down?
Re: Switch to Jujutsu Already: A Tutorial
#6> Jujutsu, in contrast, is more like playing with Play-Doh. You take a lump, cut it into two, shape one piece into something, give it a name, change your mind, give it another name, take a bit of the second piece and stick it on the first piece, and generally go back and forth all around your play area, making changes.
I love this description and it describes how I work with git. When I’m doing things locally I’m constantly committing small wip commits. When I get something the way I like it I’ll interactive rebase/just back it all up, and then create the perfect little boxes. I guess I should try jujutsu since it sounds like it might be even more for me. Although if you can’t get to the perfect boxes at the end I don’t know if I’d like it.
Re: Switch to Jujutsu Already: A Tutorial
#7> Jujutsu, in contrast, is more like playing with Play-Doh. You take a lump, cut it into two, shape one piece into something, give it a name, change your mind, give it another name, take a bit of the second piece and stick it on the first piece, and generally go back and forth all around your play area, making changes. I love this description and it describes how I work with git. When I’m doing things locally I’m con…
I'll say that Jujutsu makes the way to get to the perfect boxes really friction-free.
Re: Switch to Jujutsu Already: A Tutorial
#8I just don't have enough pain points with Git to move to something new. I don't have a problem remembering the ~5 commands I need most on any given workday. Between stashes, branches, temporary commits I later rebase, and recently worktrees, I don't lack for anything in my usage. It's universally used across both my public and corporate life, and neither does anyone need to learn a new tool to interact with my code base, nor do I need to deal with possible inconsistencies by using a different frontend on my end.
It's cool that it exists, and it's impressive that it is built on top of git itself. If you (like the author) want to use it, then more power to you. But I have yet to be convinced by any of these articles that it is worth my time to try it since nearly all of them start from a point of "if you hate Git like me, then try this thing".
If anyone has a link to an article written from the point of view of "I love or at least tolerate git and have no real issues with it, here's why I like JJ," then I'd be glad to read it.
Re: Switch to Jujutsu Already: A Tutorial
#9I just don't have enough pain points with Git to move to something new. I don't have a problem remembering the ~5 commands I need most on any given workday. Between stashes, branches, temporary commits I later rebase, and recently worktrees, I don't lack for anything in my usage. It's universally used across both my public and corporate life, and neither does anyone need to learn a new tool to interact with my code b…
I don't hate git, I like it fine and, until recently, used it exclusively on all my projects (I still use it non-exclusively). Here's an article that's written from that viewpoint:
https://www.stavros.io/posts/switch-to-jujutsu-already-a-tut...
That having been said, I didn't hate Subversion either. It was fine.
Re: Switch to Jujutsu Already: A Tutorial
#10I just don't have enough pain points with Git to move to something new. I don't have a problem remembering the ~5 commands I need most on any given workday. Between stashes, branches, temporary commits I later rebase, and recently worktrees, I don't lack for anything in my usage. It's universally used across both my public and corporate life, and neither does anyone need to learn a new tool to interact with my code b…
I don't hate git, I like it fine and, until recently, used it exclusively on all my projects (I still use it non-exclusively). Here's an article that's written from that viewpoint: https://www.stavros.io/posts/switch-to-jujutsu-already-a-tut... That having been said, I didn't hate Subversion either. It was fine.
Yeah I definitely hated Subversion, which helped push me to try Git back in the day. Actually, back then I was an `hg` guy. That battle was lost long ago though.
I think you linked to the same post as OP, though?