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▲ PorciiVorbesc a day ago

>I switched to jj a few years ago and had the majority of the annoying rebase issues go away

jj? what's that?

I wish better names would be chosen by the tech industry, that would make search engine discoverability easier.

▲filoeleven a day ago | parent | next [-]

I hadn't heard of this either, but they have an interesting reason for the name:

> The command-line tool is called jj for now because it's easy to type and easy to replace (rare in English). The project is called "Jujutsu" because it matches "jj".

https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj

▲mjdiloreto a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Jujutsu, another VCS. It is popular enough to not require introduction on HN, or so the parent must have thought.

▲PorciiVorbesc a day ago | parent [-]

>It is popular enough

Define popular. This is the first time I'm hearing about it.

>not require introduction on HN

It's not necessary to explain acronyms, but gawd damn, I wish these products had names that were easily googleable.

▲saghm a day ago | parent | next [-]

Based on "or so the parent must have thought", I don't think they were being fully serious when they said it was "popular enough". I've seen it brought up pretty much in every conversation around git on Hacker News for the past year or so, and I did make an assumption that most people reading several comments deep into a debate about how important it is to memorize the exact incantations of git commands would be familiar with it. It's largely not relevant to my overall point though; you could replace it with "a different git tool" and it would not really change what I was saying.

▲OJFord a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

▲hatthew a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm not deep in the VCS discourse but I've seen jj come up many times on HN. I don't think it need an introduction, but it's also think it's reasonable to request clarification because I agree the name is confusing.

Tangent, but when I was younger, my main programming language was Processing, and I bet you can imagine how difficult it was to google issues with it :)

▲gspetr a day ago | parent | prev [-]

>I wish these products had names that were easily googleable.

They... are?

https://www.google.com/search?aep=11&udm=50&q=should+you+swi...

You can't google for "X" like it's early stack overflow days, but adding the minimum context "X that has something to do with Y" works 99% of the time.

▲zahlman a day ago | parent [-]

Simpler: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=git+vs+jj