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PorciiVorbesc • yesterday at 10:28 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

>I switched to jj a few years ago and had the majority of the annoying rebase issues go away

jj? what's that?

I wish better names would be chosen by the tech industry, that would make search engine discoverability easier.


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filoeleven • yesterday at 11:31 PM

I hadn't heard of this either, but they have an interesting reason for the name:

> The command-line tool is called jj for now because it's easy to type and easy to replace (rare in English). The project is called "Jujutsu" because it matches "jj".

https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj

mjdiloreto • yesterday at 10:36 PM

Jujutsu, another VCS. It is popular enough to not require introduction on HN, or so the parent must have thought.

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