I would love to get an expert's opinion on if Pijul has any potential to be the "non-git backend". Their patch-based data model seems to align with Scion's. And they also happen to already have a functioning forge!

I've done a decent amount of personal research on this but I'm wondering what kinds of considerations go into the storage layer for these things.

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steveklabnik 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I apologize for what may come across as a bit of a cop-out answer.

As many of you know, I'm a big fan of jj. The jj project used to have a comparison 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 of them. As the linked commit says, it's not super clear what exactly they do not like, and so I don't want to accidentally cross some line.

In general I wish the project well, seeing a new VCS in Rust is very cool.

	▲	schlich 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It always seemed like it was good tech just in need of good marketing and this seems to confirm some suspicions. But yes, in any case, it's good to be seeing new things! I just want remote storage for my jj repos