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Madeleine Mortensen: Jujutsu For Busy Devs (Part 1) (maddie.wtf)
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“Jujutsu (jj) is a version control system with a significantly simplified mental model and command-line interface compared to Git, without sacrificing expressibility or power (in fact, you could argue Jujutsu is more powerful). Stacked-diff workflows, seamless rebases, and ephemeral revisions are all natural with jj [...]”

Part 2 of the series is out and is here.

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[-] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

squash exists but it squashes commits.

The rebase command is a bit more flexible but a key difference is handling of conflicts: They represent as regions with conflict markers in the conflicted text regions and all following commits/changes, and they disappear once the conflict has been resolved. No weird interim stated and git rebase --abort. If you want the old state back, you only need to do jj undo and that's it.

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