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Re:Jujutsu for Busy Devs by IshKebab on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @10:49AM (#44647627)
> create multiple directories (workspaces) backed by a single repository at different commits

This is `git worktree`.

They don't work with submodules but submodules are a disaster that should be avoided anyway so probably no big loss there.

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Re:Jujutsu for Busy Devs by Zambyte on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @11:54AM (#44648775)
Ah, I was not familiar with that feature in git. In that case, I'll swap out jj workspaces for sparse checkouts :-)
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Re:Jujutsu for Busy Devs by Zambyte on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @03:04PM (#44651608)
Apparently git sparse-checkout exists! I'm going to stop guessing features that git doesn't have now.
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