I was a happy mercurial user until market forces and consulting needs made me, regrettably, use the inferior, more complex, more error-prone git.
I have used it already for a few years and can't for the life of me figure out how to solve problems with it. I just have a bunch of aliases that abstract away for the inconsistency of its commands.
Now, I switched to `jj` a month ago and basically, I have learned around 60%-ish of it. And more importantly, I have gotten out of a bunch of serious trouble (you can UNDO!!!!) already.
But if this rant is not enough:
* You can UNDO. Everything. That is the major thing
* You can switch from one `branch` to `another` and leave things incomplete, even conflicts, that is nice.
* The command made sense
* Nobody else knows you use `jj`, so no barrier to adoption.
* Rebases are not painful anymore. Stacking prs are finally nice to author, even of NOBODY ELSE KNOW IT!
The major troubles:
* Not yet support for major tools, ides for it. It stays in `detached head` which is not as nice as showing the current branch on IDEs, and when you are fixing conflicts some tools do not get the diffs.
* No mature UI tool. I use `gg` which is fine enough
But the above is just temporal problems. Git will never be `fixed` or improved, so is pain forever.
I have used it already for a few years and can't for the life of me figure out how to solve problems with it. I just have a bunch of aliases that abstract away for the inconsistency of its commands.
Now, I switched to `jj` a month ago and basically, I have learned around 60%-ish of it. And more importantly, I have gotten out of a bunch of serious trouble (you can UNDO!!!!) already.
But if this rant is not enough:
* You can UNDO. Everything. That is the major thing
* You can switch from one `branch` to `another` and leave things incomplete, even conflicts, that is nice.
* The command made sense
* Nobody else knows you use `jj`, so no barrier to adoption.
* Rebases are not painful anymore. Stacking prs are finally nice to author, even of NOBODY ELSE KNOW IT!
The major troubles:
* Not yet support for major tools, ides for it. It stays in `detached head` which is not as nice as showing the current branch on IDEs, and when you are fixing conflicts some tools do not get the diffs.
* No mature UI tool. I use `gg` which is fine enough
But the above is just temporal problems. Git will never be `fixed` or improved, so is pain forever.