Introduction - Steve's Tutorial on Jujutsu, an alternative front-end to git (steveklabnik.github.io)

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Jujutsu is essentially an alternative front-end or "porcelain" to git, both magnificiently simplified and powerful.

I tried it after using Emacs Magit for about six or seven years, and jujutsu is really easier to use than git and useful if one wants a tidy public history of changes (with "tidy" and "public" as Linus Torvalds recommends). Plus it is fully compatible to git as backend - other contributors will not even note you are using it.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I have to admit that in spite of having used git for about 20 years, I never used reflog. And even with magit I did stuff like rebase rarely. I found it costing too much time to read the man pages again every time and meditate what would happen with "reset xyz".

[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

Fair, git’s documentation can definitely be too terse despite being very extensive and could really benefit from examples and common use cases sections. I only use a fraction of what git offers, but what I do use I use often, which definitely contributes to my happiness with git: I seldomly need to look things up

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Now, jujutsu covers almost the same with < 10% of that complexity and less than 10% of the documentation - simpler but the same power.

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