J. Ryan Stinnett
jryans.bsky.social
J. Ryan Stinnett
@jryans.bsky.social
Exploring how to make programs more malleable and computing more humane | My communities: Malleable Systems, Matrix, Mozilla | He/him
I've been making plans for something like this for a while now... 🤓 We'll see if I ever actually build it! 😇
October 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I don't think the argument "everyone else liked it" is going to work for me personally. 😝
August 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
From what I've read so far, I'm not seeing enough value in jj to make it worth learning a new thing when I already have something that works well for me.
August 18, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Sounds a bit strange to my Git brain, but I guess it's just accomplishing a similar thing in a different way.
August 18, 2025 at 11:40 AM
For example, if I've got several changes in my working copy, but I don't want to commit them all right away, I'll `git add -p` and commit the parts that are ready to go. IIUC, jj would commit the whole lot, and then I'd have split it up again later.
August 18, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Hmm. Perhaps the root of it is: I'm fine with Git's several orthogonal concept. They work for me. Others don't really see it that way, so they are excited for something new.
August 18, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Some of the things in the Git comparison (jj-vcs.github.io/jj/latest/gi...) sound negative to me. Why auto-commit the working copy…? Why get rid of the index? These Git features make sense to me, so changing them sounds bad.
Git comparison - Jujutsu docs
jj-vcs.github.io
August 17, 2025 at 12:18 AM