A Jujutsu later

[2025-07-30]

What does the next generation of version-control-system look like...

After being in rooms where people struggled to understand git to its core or even adopt it in their daily workflow git might not be it.

Most people who "successed" with learning git, usually just know enough commands to push to github or get unstack. But in extreme cases of being stuck the repo is re-cloned. Skill issue? Maybe

But isn't technology supposed to bridge skill issue that is why it is "technology"

With git, we are in a state where most people simply parrot documentation and memorise a handfull of commands so much that they become second nature but most do not understand the metal and cannot justify why the internal design of the vcs is like that.

I thought this was what vcs was supposed to be like: something complex, I cannot understand so I thought this lack of knowledge was OK.

Then I tried Jujutsu!

All tech which is announced is crowned as "revolutionary". I have installed software flagged as revolutionary and it was all just someone reinventing the wheel, very minimal productivity gains. When jujutsu was mentioned 3 different times: by gregory, neovim core, Maddie on HN post and an old tweet by Mitchell, ghostty creator

I ended up on a conclusion that I tweeted:

This tweet made me feel like I made a professional opinion on a technology with zero skin in the game. I mean people do that but I felt off saying something so confidently without installing it on my PC.

The jujutsu docs do not do justice to the technology. During my skimming I stumbled on "TODO" sections, symbolizing undocumented content. This sprouted the idea that this is simply a toy project that might die off.

Extra skepticism, came from the fact that google has some of its hands in it. But the good news is this is not a google product. From the ReadMe Martin,the creator, stated:

Jujutsu is not mature enough to be used solo so you still have your favourite vcs,git. But here is the twist: It is simply a different workflow style, tapping in some play with mercurial type of workflow. Working branchless .Sometimes the best way to understand a tool is to use another tool.