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A Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful

240 mentions on Hacker News by 124 people: 43 stories, 197 comments · first 2020-12-18 · latest 2026-10-25

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  1. Jujutsu - https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj
    comment by rumblefrog · 2026-10-25 · in JetBrains Thinkrail
  2. …to Pijul for informational purposes, but the Pijul folks took offense, and so it was removed: https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj/commit/0525dc9d860a5fff6a97d134... As such, I generally just decline to comment on Pijul, as I want to be respectful…
    comment by steveklabnik · 2026-10-13 · in Redesigning source control at Anthropic
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    Jujutsu (Jj) 0.46.0
    story by birdculture · 2026-10-08 · 1 comment
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    Jujutsu 0.45.0
    story by birdculture · 2026-09-04 · 0 comments
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    Jujutsu 0.45.0 Release
    story by olexsmir · 2026-09-03 · 2 comments
  6. https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj/tree/main/docs/technical
    comment by gritzko · 2026-09-03 · in The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC
  7. The move from martinvonz/jj to jj-vcs/jj happened almost two years ago. https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj/commit/b836e0ae9518154cd52f94e0... (from 2024-12-17) says that it was recent at that time. Google were owners even when it was under…
    comment by martinvonz · 2026-09-02 · in The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC
  8. …great contributions from highly experienced and talented individuals. It's healthy, check it out: https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj/commits/main/ Most of the maintainer stuff is also overhyped in a way (OSS maintainer-heads know this). The…
    comment by aseipp · 2026-09-01 · in The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC
  9. There is active work in this area, yes! https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj/issues/3386 is the bug tracking the feature request, and there have been some recent PRs working on implementing this, see here for one example:…
    comment by steveklabnik · 2026-09-01 · in The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC
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    Jujutsu 0.44.0
    story by birdculture · 2026-08-07 · 0 comments
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    Jujutsu 0.44.0
    story by olexsmir · 2026-08-06 · 0 comments
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    Jj v0.43.0 Released
    story by birdculture · 2026-07-12 · 0 comments
  13. That's how GitHub discussion works :- ) (or did you know?) Look here: https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj/discussions/ — by default, sorted by last activity. But you can also sort by newest, or by votes. For comment threads, look at e.g.:…
    comment by KajMagnus · 2026-07-04 · in Bring back crappy forums
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    Jj v0.43.0 Released
    story by birdculture · 2026-07-03 · 0 comments
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    Jujutsu (JJ) Release v0.43.0
    story by y1n0 · 2026-07-02 · 0 comments
  16. There are some projects: * https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj * https://nest.pijul.com/pijul/pijul
    comment by VorpalWay · 2026-06-17 · in Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability
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    Jujutsu v0.42.0 Released
    story by itskokeh · 2026-06-04 · 1 comment
  18. https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj/discussions/3549 let's you change this behavior. I think the idea is that branches/bookmarks aren't as necessary as they are with git.
    comment by wocram · 2026-05-25 · in Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu
  19. …adds new features, like jj undo. The un-learning curve is steep if you already know git very well. https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj/discussions/3549 lets you enable automatically advancing bookmarks.
    comment by wocram · 2026-05-25 · in Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu
  20. https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj On the off chance that you haven't already had this suggested to you on HN, I would suggest taking a look at JJ. I use it in all my Git-underneath repos with `jj git init --colocate` (You can run that in a git…
    comment by tekacs · 2026-05-18 · in Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video]
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    Jj v0.41.0 Is Out
    story by birdculture · 2026-05-08 · 0 comments
  22. …changes to a file in one branch with that file being renamed in another branch. Git can do that. https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj/issues/47
    comment by adrianmsmith · 2026-04-21 · in Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit
  23. …manipulating tags (jj tag set, jj tag delete), and recently [1] support for fetching / pushing [1]: https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj/pull/9279
    comment by notmywalrus · 2026-04-20 · in Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit
  24. > https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj/issues/5596 doesn't seem to be the oldest instance of this problem, but does seem to be the current discussion, and there seems to be no consensus on how to fix. Ahh, sorry - I didn't understand the issue.…
    comment by rstuart4133 · 2026-04-15 · in jj – the CLI for Jujutsu
  25. …"git status" will show that it's aware of it, but won't automatically absorb them into the commit? https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj/issues/5596 doesn't seem to be the oldest instance of this problem, but does seem to be the current discussion,…
    comment by misnome · 2026-04-15 · in jj – the CLI for Jujutsu
  26. They do publish binaries they work perfectly well on Linux. No need for cargo: https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj/releases/tag/v0.40.0
    comment by rstuart4133 · 2026-04-15 · in jj – the CLI for Jujutsu
  27. …but yeah, it's frustrating that lfs is taking so long. But there seems to be some momentum recently https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj/pull/9068
    comment by igor47 · 2026-04-14 · in jj – the CLI for Jujutsu
  28. To add a new backend, there's a trait that you implement for your backend: https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj/blob/713a0d0898448392d38fdcbaba... I suspect if you came by the jj discord, folks could help you with more detail than that.
    comment by steveklabnik · 2026-04-14 · in jj – the CLI for Jujutsu
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    Jj v0.39.0 Released
    story by birdculture · 2026-04-10 · 0 comments
  30. …`git rebase --continue`. However, the conflict algebra does remove many common uses of rerere. See https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj/issues/175#issuecomment-1079831... for a longer discussion.
    comment by martinvonz · 2026-04-09 · in Git commands I run before reading any code
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    Jj v0.40.0 Released
    story by birdculture · 2026-04-03 · 0 comments
  32. …change) (useful for rerunning test commands automatically once you save the file you're editing. https://github.com/martinvonz/jj and https://github.com/idursun/jjui (Jujutsu VCS, been using it for three months and I really enjoy it)…
    comment by Zizizizz · 2026-04-01 · in Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?
  33. …still apply. Again with the assertions without checking things. This is the path of "the binaries": https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj/releases/tag/v0.39.0 I downloaded the file myself and extracted to see: $ > ls -l…
    comment by noisy_boy · 2026-03-21 · in Our commitment to Windows quality
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    Jujutsu VCS v0.39 Released
    story by jonathan7977 · 2026-03-08 · 1 comment
  35. Could you comment here on the PR( https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj/pull/8833 ) if you want this integrated with jj
    comment by rs545837 · 2026-03-08 · in Weave – A language aware merge algorithm based on entities
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    Jj v0.39.0 Released
    story by birdculture · 2026-03-05 · 0 comments
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    Jj v0.39.0 Released
    story by todsacerdoti · 2026-03-04 · 1 comment
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    Jujutsu v0.38.0 Released
    story by birdculture · 2026-02-06 · 0 comments
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    Jujutsu v0.38.0 Released
    story by todsacerdoti · 2026-02-05 · 0 comments
  40. I actually asked about that on the GH discussions a couple weeks ago, but based on this ( https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj/issues/7229 ), I'm not sure it's 100% foolproof to turn on auto-updates. It might be ok for human use, but I have…
    comment by KingMob · 2026-02-02 · in VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code
  41. For anyone else that has absolutely no idea what this is: https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj
    comment by nailer · 2026-02-02 · in VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code
  42. …effect is that many forms of conflict resolution can be performed and propagated automatically. [0] https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj
    comment by jcgl · 2026-01-27 · in I made my own Git
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    Jujutsu v0.37.0 Released
    story by birdculture · 2026-01-09 · 0 comments
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    Jujutsu v0.37.0 Released
    story by todsacerdoti · 2026-01-08 · 0 comments
  45. https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj
    comment by Denvercoder9 · 2025-12-30 · in Everything as code: How we manage our company in one monorepo
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    Jujutsu v0.36.0 Released
    story by birdculture · 2025-12-06 · 0 comments
  47. Jujutsu comes in handy here for the same usecase: https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj https://www.stavros.io/posts/switch-to-jujutsu-already-a-tut... Also found https://github.com/gitbutlerapp/gitbutler
    comment by dimitrieh · 2025-12-05 · in Stacked Diffs with git rebase —onto
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    Jujutsu v0.36.0 Released
    story by todsacerdoti · 2025-12-04 · 0 comments
  49. …a source control tool that advertises that it's fast and compatible with the git on disk format. https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj
    comment by jfim · 2025-11-18 · in Google Antigravity
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    Jujutsu v0.35.0 Released
    story by birdculture · 2025-11-07 · 0 comments