Re:Jujutsu at Google • Martin von Zweigbergk JJ Con [video]
by jeffbee on Thursday October 30, 2025 @05:20PM
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As I recall, git5 was such a piece of junk that they deleted it so nobody could use it any more. It had its fans but they were all deluded. It was a demonstrated fact that git5 users were less productive than normal g4 users.
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Re:Jujutsu at Google • Martin von Zweigbergk JJ Con [video]
by gpm on Thursday October 30, 2025 @05:25PM
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What is/was "git5"? Git the vcs is only about to release version 3.0... Googling only reveals some gene that happens to be named that...
Re:Jujutsu at Google • Martin von Zweigbergk JJ Con [video]
by bugsliker on Thursday October 30, 2025 @06:42PM
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it’s an old google internal interface over google’s vcs piper that let you use git to manage your changes
Re:Jujutsu at Google • Martin von Zweigbergk JJ Con [video]
by jeffbee on Thursday October 30, 2025 @05:33PM
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It was a way to pretend that you were using git when you were in fact using piper.
Re:Jujutsu at Google • Martin von Zweigbergk JJ Con [video]
by skirmish on Thursday October 30, 2025 @06:08PM
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The big problem with it was that you had to specify upfront which directories you will be editing, and only those were cloned locally. Later if you wanted to add a quick debug printout somewhere else, you would spend 20 minutes tracking more directories and merging / rebasing branches. All because git choked on the huge monorepo.