arxanas/git-branchless on Hacker News

…the push I needed to finally give both jj and tangled a proper try and likely move stuff over. [1] https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless [2] https://mergify.com

comment by brw · 2025-12-20 · in Graphite is joining Cursor

git-branchless implements revsets for git https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/wiki/Reference:-Re...

comment by exclipy · 2025-09-01 · in Jujutsu for everyone

I tried it for a bit and went back to git-branchless ( https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless ). git-branchless is just a better set of tools for working on a git repo so local tools like the JetBrains git integration will work just…

comment by exclipy · 2025-07-22 · in Jujutsu for busy devs

…notes from both sides and fails to invalidate the cache? - This is how my `git test` command works https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/wiki/Command:-git-... --- I've also seen use-cases might prefer to use/add other things to the…

comment by arxanas · 2025-06-22 · in Git Notes: Git's coolest, most unloved feature (2022)

…it that helpful. I think it's unfair to call it a "thin UI layer". My own project git-branchless https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless might more legitimately be called a "thin UI layer", since it really is a wrapper around Git. jj…

comment by arxanas · 2025-02-12 · in JJ Cheat Sheet

…by `HEAD`), or if you want to determine a global ordering between events from different reflogs: https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/wiki/Architecture#... In contrast, jj snapshots the entire repo after each operation (including the…

comment by arxanas · 2025-02-12 · in jj: a Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful

…cases; when the number of jobs is a power of 2, this partitions the search space evenly.) [1]: https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/wiki/Command:-git-...

comment by arxanas · 2024-12-11 · in Ask HN: Git Alternatives – Sapling vs. Jj

…can do that jj/Sapling can't, one example being its (somewhat opinionated) `git test` command: https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/wiki/Command:-git-...

comment by arxanas · 2024-12-10 · in Ask HN: Git Alternatives – Sapling vs. Jj

…has a link to this article explaining some things that can't be undone in the Git model via reflog: https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/wiki/Architecture#... - https://blog.waleedkhan.name/in-memory-rebases/ — It's non-trivial to…

comment by arxanas · 2024-12-10 · in Ask HN: Git Alternatives – Sapling vs. Jj

…wrappers, that's OK! But there's a lot more underneath the surface if you scratch at it a bit. [1] https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless [2] The main developer of git-branchless also is a Jujutsu contributor, so these ideas and the…

comment by aseipp · 2024-12-10 · in Ask HN: Git Alternatives – Sapling vs. Jj

From the git-branchless wiki: https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/wiki/Concepts#anon... > Normally, only commits which are reachable by a branch are visible in stock Git. But this is not true: a "soft" tag suffices to keep a…

comment by everybodyknows · 2024-09-09 · in Creating a Git Commit: The Hard Way

…just makes everything a bit less arcane. The whole 'branch-dance' gets really old real fast. [1]: https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless

comment by hbogert · 2024-07-15 · in Working with stacked branches in Git is easier with –update-refs (2022)

…work on top of Git, like more intuitive UI/patterns ( https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit , https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless ) and smart merge resolvers ( https://github.com/Symbolk/IntelliMerge ,…

comment by armchairhacker · 2023-12-10 · in Ask HN: Can we do better than Git for version control?

…tools a try. (1): https://github.com/facebook/sapling (2): https://github.com/martinvonz/jj/ (3): https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless

comment by sluongng · 2023-06-28 · in Meta developer tools: Working at scale

Other similar projects are https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless and https://github.com/martinvonz/jj .

comment by martinvonz · 2023-03-30 · in Show HN: Gut – An easy-to-use CLI for Git

…multiple features on top of. I routinely do this as part of rapid prototyping, as described here: https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/wiki/Workflow:-div... `git undo` shows a list of operations it'll execute, which you have to…

comment by arxanas · 2023-01-09 · in Branchless Workflow for Git

It is not! See https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/wiki/Architecture#...

comment by arxanas · 2023-01-09 · in Where are my Git UI features from the future?

…like that are dismissed over the old You Just Have To Understand The Model talking point. [1] https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/

comment by avgcorrection · 2023-01-08 · in Where are my Git UI features from the future?

…see the `git-branchless` column in the table for comparison with the other clients. - git reword: https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/wiki/Command:-git-... - git move will perform the magic "see all downstream conflicts", but…

comment by arxanas · 2023-01-08 · in Where are my Git UI features from the future?

…enough workflows. Here's some features I've implemented which improve on `git rebase` in general: https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/wiki/Command:-git-...

comment by arxanas · 2023-01-08 · in Where are my Git UI features from the future?

…to run tests on commits without checking them out, you might want to try my `git test` command: https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/discussions/643 You can use `sl fold --exact` to combine arbitrary commits without including the…

comment by arxanas · 2022-11-15 · in Sapling: A new source control system with Git-compatible client

To use a similar featureset but in the same Git repository you normally use, you can try my https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless . Then, you can use your usual staging workflows if desired, or use regular Git commands directly. Its…

comment by arxanas · 2022-11-15 · in Sapling: A new source control system with Git-compatible client

"git undo" tool: https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/wiki/Command:-git-...

comment by cakoose · 2022-11-10 · in Idiot Proof Git

…the each chunk should belong to and amends it to the right commit You also need git branchless https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless as it lets you move up and down the stack without needing to remember so much git arcana.

comment by WookieRushing · 2022-10-08 · in Show HN: Maiao, Stacked Diffs for GitHub

…looking at these for reference. - https://jg.gg/2018/09/29/stacked-diffs-versus-pull-requests/ - https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless - https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_pr - https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/discussions/45 -…

comment by allen-munsch · 2022-08-27 · in Bash script uses gh CLI to open patch stack

…would be reasonable for me. (For example, here, I have 11 finished commits and 3 in progress: https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/pull/451 — but I don't actually use stacked PRs on Github, particularly if no one is reviewing my code.…

comment by arxanas · 2022-07-24 · in In Praise of Stacked PRs

…Happy to answer any questions about stacked PR workflows here or on GitHub discussions https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/discussions or Discord https://discord.gg/caYQBJ82A4 .

comment by arxanas · 2022-07-24 · in In Praise of Stacked PRs

Try out the linked tool git-branchless ( https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless , I'm the author). It should help you restore Phabricator-like workflows. In particular, check out the `git sync`, `git restack`, and `git move` commands…

comment by arxanas · 2022-07-24 · in In Praise of Stacked PRs

…are unavoidable, but it can be nice to do branchless development as part of rapid prototyping (see https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/wiki/Workflow:-div... ). Another term you could use is "anonymous branching". This is not…

comment by arxanas · 2022-07-24 · in In Praise of Stacked PRs

The linked tool git-branchless handles this pretty well ( https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless , I'm the author). You basically run `git checkout <branch>`, `git commit --amend`, and then `git restack`. This will rebase all dependent…

comment by arxanas · 2022-07-24 · in In Praise of Stacked PRs

…`git-branchless` (I am the author) also supports `git prev 3` followed by `git commit --amend`. See https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/wiki/Command:-git-...

comment by arxanas · 2022-07-24 · in In Praise of Stacked PRs

This is one of the big features from git-branchless ( https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/wiki/Command:-git-... ) which is recommended in the article; moving a stack (sub-tree) of commits instead of just one branch. Might be useful…

comment by theptip · 2022-07-24 · in In Praise of Stacked PRs

My project https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless does this. Use `git undo -i` to get a graphical view of where branches were at an arbitrary previous point in time. It's worth noting that, in principle, there are cases where the reflog…

comment by arxanas · 2022-07-21 · in Things I wish everyone knew about Git (Part II)

You might be interested in my project git-branchless https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless or the Git-compatible Jujutsu SCM https://github.com/martinvonz/jj , both of which have version control for commit history via an operation log.…

comment by arxanas · 2022-07-05 · in What comes after Git

Items 2 and 4 are addressed by my git-branchless project: https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless . You can undo with `git undo`, and merge conflict resolution never starts unless you specify `-m`/`--merge`. There's a UI for item 3…

comment by arxanas · 2022-05-18 · in Grit: A non-existent alternative interface to Git

Check out https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless for `git undo` (and more)! (arxanas shared a link to my project elsewhere in this thread :))

comment by martinvonz · 2022-03-27 · in Fossil

…to post a comment on the article, so I'll post here. Regarding performance concerns, my own project https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless is designed to work very fast at monorepo scale. It primarily supports a patch-stack workflow,…

comment by arxanas · 2022-01-16 · in How I Use Stacked Git at $Work

…here, but there's also my own tool ( https://github.com/martinvonz/jj ) and git-branchless ( https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless ).

comment by martinvonz · 2022-01-01 · in Ask HN: Do we need an easier Git?

Asciinema is used for docs-ish in git-branchless's readme: https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/blob/master/README... It does have formal docs, but I didn't fully understand the program after reading them. I didn't enjoy sitting…

comment by nyanpasu64 · 2021-11-30 · in 4x Smaller, 50x Faster

…has `git undo` while gt has `git repo sync`. (Tracking issue for git-branchless's sync: https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/issues/174 ) git-branchless integrates more directly with Git, so you don't need to learn any new commands if…

comment by arxanas · 2021-11-18 · in Stacked changes: how FB and Google engineers stay unblocked and ship faster

What is the difference between stacked changes and branchless? https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless based off of the branchless Mercurial workflows at large companies such as Google and Facebook

comment by password4321 · 2021-11-17 · in Stacked changes: how FB and Google engineers stay unblocked and ship faster

Thanks for the feedback. I also received this request today to document a relevant workflow: https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/issues/210 . If you want to be notified when I write the documentation (hopefully today?), then you can…

comment by arxanas · 2021-11-11 · in Make your monorepo feel small with Git’s sparse index

> I'm working on improving monorepo-scale Git tooling at https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless I'm intrigued by this but the readme could maybe use some work to describe how you envision it being used day-to-day? All the examples seem…

comment by stormbrew · 2021-11-11 · in Make your monorepo feel small with Git’s sparse index

…their way into Git proper. Shameless plug: I'm working on improving monorepo-scale Git tooling at https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless , such as with in-memory rebases: https://blog.waleedkhan.name/in-memory-rebases/ . Try it out if…

comment by arxanas · 2021-11-11 · in Make your monorepo feel small with Git’s sparse index

You might be interested in my project https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless , which is intended to replicate such a workflow.

comment by arxanas · 2021-11-06 · in Why SQLite does not use Git (2018)

https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless is worth a look as well. Currently alpha, and "designed for use in a repository with a single main branch", but offers extended undo and rebase functionality.

comment by password4321 · 2021-10-22 · in Magit, the magical Git interface (2017)

Why is that? There's some evidence that the name is intuitive: https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/discussions/45#dis...

comment by arxanas · 2021-10-18 · in Fast rebases with git-move

…contains other helpful tools, such as commit graph visualization and a commit graph undo feature: https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless

comment by arxanas · 2021-10-18 · in Fast rebases with git-move

…people don't use and don't see the value of tree-based development. See this feedback from a user: https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/issues/6 So I decided to focus primarily on features which everyone understands, such as…

comment by arxanas · 2021-10-18 · in Fast rebases with git-move

Have you seen the rest of the https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless project? It includes commit graph visualization and an undo feature, which works with rebases.

comment by arxanas · 2021-10-17 · in Fast rebases with git-move