Jujutsu vs Git: A Developer's Guide to Switching Version Control Systems
By
birdculture
7mo ago· 19 min readen
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Summary
This article is a tutorial and opinion piece advocating for developers to switch from Git to Jujutsu, a version control system. The author expresses frustration with Git's complexity and unintuitive commands, describing it as an 'inscrutable jumble of ill-fitting incantations.' The article serves as both a critique of Git's user experience and an introduction to Jujutsu as a more intuitive alternative for version control.
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As all developers, I've been using git since the dawn of time, since its commands were an inscrutable jumble of ill-fitting incantations, and it has remained this way until today
Needless to say, I just don't get git. I never got it, even though I've read a bunch of stuff on how it represents things internally
I've been using it for years knowing what a few commands do, and whenever it gets into a weird state because I fat-fingered something, I have my trusty alias, fuckgit
If you don't like Jujutsu, you're wrong
