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The Jujutsu version control system

ystem Jujutsu is a new version control system that seems pretty nice! The first few times I tried it I bounced off the docs, which to my taste has too much detail up front before I got the big picture. Someone else maybe had a similar experience and wrote an alternative tutorial but it's in a rambly bloggy style that is also too focused on the commands for me.

The technical answer is subtle — as a user you usually interact with them as diffs, while conceptually they are snapshots, but concretely they are stored as deltas. Coming from Git the lack of named branches is surprising, but I believe this is comfortable for Mercurial users and Monotone worked similarly (I think? I remember talking to someone involved in this area and thinking "realistically your users have to use Git to work with the larger world, so anything else you do is pure cost".

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