alt Hacker NewsI wouldn't say it's that people are not able to find their way with Git. I was a competent Git user and would carefully and squash my commits. It's just easier and nicer with Jujutsu.
The way all changes (except those in the ignore file) are automatically incorporated into the current commit means I don't have to faff about with stash when I need to pivot and then try to remember which commit to pop against. I can just hop around the tree with gay abandon. That alone is invaluable.
Then add in the fact that a change to history gets rippled down the descendent commits. And the fact that conflicts are recorded in the history and can be dealt with at your leisure. Or the fact that `jj undo` is a thing.
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> Then add in the fact that a change to history gets rippled down the descendent commits.
This sounds interesting. Could you go into a bit more detail?
I have 3 branches off of a single commit, update that commit, and all branches automatically rebase? Or?
There must be some kind of split in how people work or something. I’ve never had the desire to jump around the git tree. I never squash commits. I basically never stash changes. All the things that people say jj makes easier are things I never even want to do. Not because they’re not easy with git, but because it sounds hard to keep straight in my head.