git is genuinely one of the best tools ever created. It is an extremely simple idea with crazy effectiveness and a reasonable UX that is a bit off putting at first but makes a lot of sense later on.
That said, I’d genuinely be curious what you think jj has improved upon git.
The command line of jj makes sense and is easy to understand. I have to use graphical git clients because I want to cry every time I have to use its CLI.
That’s interesting; I find the git CLI pretty intuitive especially for basic use cases most people would need, but I’ve also used git for 15 years now.
I have only been using it for ~ 4 years and the UX seems pretty logical even for not-basic cases.
Maybe because it was only my second VCS[1], it didn’t seem at all problematic to me. On the contrary, every time, I just found myself going “nice”, whenever I found a new feature.
When it comes to git restore ., well, you won’t use rm -rf * in your working directory, right?
I haven’t used git based GUIs much. Some of the functions that my IDE provides, I use now and then.
Being able to see the git blame for a file, right in place, scrolled to the same line as I was looking at the code, helps quite a bit (and so does the git based annotations).
But for things like commit, restore, pull, push, rebase and things that will write something, I just use the CLI, because I feel like I know what is going to happen ad that gives me confidence.
git is genuinely one of the best tools ever created. It is an extremely simple idea with crazy effectiveness and a reasonable UX that is a bit off putting at first but makes a lot of sense later on.
That said, I’d genuinely be curious what you think jj has improved upon git.
The command line of jj makes sense and is easy to understand. I have to use graphical git clients because I want to cry every time I have to use its CLI.
That’s interesting; I find the git CLI pretty intuitive especially for basic use cases most people would need, but I’ve also used git for 15 years now.
You might be the first person to ever say that! How do I delete a remote branch?
I have only been using it for ~ 4 years and the UX seems pretty logical even for not-basic cases.
Maybe because it was only my second VCS[1], it didn’t seem at all problematic to me. On the contrary, every time, I just found myself going “nice”, whenever I found a new feature.
When it comes to
git restore ., well, you won’t userm -rf *in your working directory, right?I haven’t used
gitbased GUIs much. Some of the functions that my IDE provides, I use now and then. Being able to see thegit blamefor a file, right in place, scrolled to the same line as I was looking at the code, helps quite a bit (and so does the git based annotations).But for things like
commit,restore,pull,push,rebaseand things that will write something, I just use the CLI, because I feel like I know what is going to happen ad that gives me confidence.the first one being folders with timestamps ↩︎