Comment by ksymph
8 hours ago
Semi off-topic, but does anyone know of good resources for jj that don't assume git knowledge? Steve's and others are high quality, but often things are explained in terms of git equivalents or describe workflows that I struggle to fully understand the purpose of, as someone who knows only the barest basics of git necessary to work on personal projects.
If none exist, I think there's a great opportunity there, for anyone with the knowledge and motivation to make some absolute beginner guides. Already jj is infinitely more user-friendly, and as the tool matures, it isn't far fetched to think a new generation of programmers could go straight to jj without knowing their way around git first.
There's https://jj-for-everyone.github.io/
I'm not immediately aware. There's a certain amount of git-ness embedded in it with it being a DAG, having commits, and being compatible with git remotes. And, since the industry still runs on git, most people will need to learn it somewhat, anyway.
Honestly, until JJ is 1.0, I wouldn't recommend it for beginners. There's significant changes happening to the interface still.
I've been using it in relatively the same way for a while now. The only meaningful changes were native support for `tug` and `absorb`, neither of which significantly changed my workflow.
eh, there have been a good amount of breaking changes. `-d`/`--destination` → `-o`/`--onto` (the former isn't yet deprecated though); deprecated `--allow-new` on push (or, forcibly making it the default for `--bookmark`); deprecated `jj bookmark track foo@bar` (and `jj bookmark track foo` having a really-weird system (I personally just call it broken, even though the behavior is intentional) of sometimes tracking the bookmark on all remotes; really I'd call jj's entire system of bookmark tracking/pulling/pushing quite incomplete outside of the trivial cases); various changed revset functions over time that break configs; and a really-annoying thing of `jj git fetch` sometimes abandoning ascendants of `@` leaving you in a confusing state (if not one with conflicts).
It's certainly very usable despite all that, and the changes are simple enough to adapt to, but it's a pretty new thing.