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Re:I struggled with Git, so I'm making a game to spare other... by sunshowers on Thursday March 06, 2025 @02:07AM (#43277284)
Do they? They're different and theoretically better in some respects, but are they better in ways that matter and truly deliver value to users?

Commutativity of patches is neat, but it's just not that big a deal. I think Pijul's best feature is first-class conflicts, an idea that Jujutsu has also incorporated.

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Re:I struggled with Git, so I'm making a game to spare other... by adastra22 on Friday March 07, 2025 @12:56AM (#43287658)
It matters a lot when maintaining long lived forks of active upstream projects, especially with invasive changes that get tripped up on rebases.
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Re:I struggled with Git, so I'm making a game to spare other... by sunshowers on Friday March 07, 2025 @05:14PM (#43295360)
That seems like an algorithm issue more than a fundamental data structure issue, right?
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Re:I struggled with Git, so I'm making a game to spare other... by adastra22 on Friday March 07, 2025 @08:53PM (#43296807)
Patch commutivity would make rebasing vs. merge commits effectively the same thing. That’s where it impacts the data structure.
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Re:I struggled with Git, so I'm making a game to spare other... by sunshowers on Saturday March 08, 2025 @01:26PM (#43302249)
From the perspective of lawyers who come knocking, it seems incorrect to treat rebases and merges as the same.
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