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New comment by drsouth in "The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC"

drsouth — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:24:00 +0000

> And for a chain of commits that all have conflicts, chances are fixing the first conflict automatically resolves all other conflicts in the chain, thanks to the auto-rebasing feature.

What happens if one is unlucky and the conflicts are not automatically resolved from changes to the first commit? Does that potentially imply more work overall than if one was using a VCS that forced conflict resolution earlier, like git?

New comment by drsouth in "The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC"

drsouth — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:20:57 +0000

How does it compare to Mercurial? And why would it get more traction than Mercurial?

New comment by drsouth in "The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC"

drsouth — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:19:47 +0000

Do you happen to have or know of any good open source projects on any public platform like GitHub, gitlab or Codeberg, that uses Jujutsu/jj?

New comment by drsouth in "The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC"

drsouth — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:17:08 +0000

Will this have any chance if Jujutsu/jj doesn't get more traction? The effort to learn a new VCS is less than for a programming language, but many developers have not learned git in depth, and Mercurial and others have not gained a lot of traction.