forgit VS jj

Compare forgit vs jj and see what are their differences.

forgit

:zzz: A utility tool powered by fzf for using git interactively. (by wfxr)

jj

A Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful (by martinvonz)
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7.3 10.0
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Shell Rust
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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forgit

Posts with mentions or reviews of forgit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-11.

jj

Posts with mentions or reviews of jj. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-05.
  • Why Don't I Like Git More?
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Apr 2024
  • Twenty Years Is Nothing
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Mar 2024
    Jujutsu is along the lines of what you describe: https://github.com/martinvonz/jj

    You can drop it in and work seamlessly from git repos

  • Git Branches as a Social Construct
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jan 2024
    Pull Requests (or Merge Requests) are merged only when (1) all of the automated tests pass; and (2) enough necessary reviewers have indicated approval.

    Git doesn't tell you when it's necessary to have full test coverage and manual infosec review in development cycles that produce releases, and neither do Pull Requests.

    https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/#comment-19552164 ctrl-f hubflow

    It looks like datasift's gitflow/hubflow docs are 404'ing, but the original nvie blog post [1] has the Git branching workflow diagrams; which the wpsharks/hubflow fork [3] of datasift/gitflow fork [2] of gitflow [1]has a copy of in the README:

    [1] https://github.com/nvie/gitflow

    [2] https://github.com/datasift/gitflow

    [3] https://github.com/wpsharks/hubflow?tab=readme-ov-file

    https://learngitbranching.js.org/ is still a great resource, and it could work on mobile devices.

    The math of VCS deltas and mutable and immutable content-addressed DAG nodes identified by 2^n bits describing repo/$((2*inf)) bits ;

    >> "ugit – Learn Git Internals by Building Git in Python" https://www.leshenko.net/p/ugit/

    SLSA.dev is a social construct atop e.g. git, which is really a low-level purpose-built tool and Perl and now Python porcelain.

    jj (jujutsu) is a git-compatible VCS CLI: https://github.com/martinvonz/jj

    "Ask HN: Best Git workflow for small teams" (2016)

  • PyPy has moved to Git, GitHub
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Jan 2024
    You will probably like Jujutsu, which takes much inspiration from Mercurial: https://github.com/martinvonz/jj

    It isn't a 1-to-1 clone, either. But tools like revsets are there, cset evolution is "built in" to the design, etc. There is no concept of phases, we might think about adding that, but there is a concept of immutable commits (so you don't overwrite public ones.)

    It also has many novel features that make it stand out. We care a lot about performance and usability. Give it a shot. I think you might be pleasantly surprised.

    Disclosure: I am a developer of Jujutsu. I do it in my spare time.

  • Ask HN: Can we do better than Git for version control?
    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Dec 2023
    I have created a discussion. Thank you both

    https://github.com/martinvonz/jj/discussions/2691

  • I (kind of) killed Mercurial at Mozilla
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Nov 2023
    > why don't version control systems (especially ones that can change history) have undo/redo functionality out of the box?

    It's true. And Jujutsu has undo functionality out of the box, too. It's not just Sapling. :) https://github.com/martinvonz/jj

  • Confusing Git Terminology
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Nov 2023
  • Things I just don't like about Git
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Oct 2023
    Git made the only choice a popular VCS can make. History rewrites will exist, period. If you're opposed to history rewrites, then git gives you the tools to ensure the repos you control are not rewritten, and that's all it can do in a world where people have control of their own computers.

    If Fossil ever becomes as popular as git, people will create software that allows history rewriting in Fossil, and that's fine. People will do what they want on their own computer, and I think it's morally wrong to try and stop that.

    Another user in this thread linked to jj [0], an alternative git client that does some pretty weird things. For example, it replaces the working tree with a working commit and commits quite often. I like git and that seems weird to me, but I'm not offended, people can do what they want on their own computer and I have the tools to ensure repos under my control are not effected. That's all I can hope for.

    [0]: https://github.com/martinvonz/jj

  • Pijul: Version-Control Post-Git β€’ Goto 2023
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Aug 2023
    I recently found out about another project called jj: https://github.com/martinvonz/jj. It takes inspiration from Pijul and others but is git-compatible.
  • A beginner's guide to Git version control
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Aug 2023
    https://github.com/martinvonz/jj

    I think maybe both fossil and bitkeeper are more intuitive too.

    Did you try any of those?

What are some alternatives?

When comparing forgit and jj you can also consider the following projects:

ohmyzsh - πŸ™ƒ A delightful community-driven (with 2,300+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.

git-branchless - High-velocity, monorepo-scale workflow for Git

tig - Text-mode interface for git

Git - Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements.

EdenSCM - A Scalable, User-Friendly Source Control System. [Moved to: https://github.com/facebook/sapling]

GitUp - The Git interface you've been missing all your life has finally arrived.

pre-commit - A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks.

elixir-oh-my-zsh - Oh My Zsh plugin for Elixir, IEX, Mix and Phoenix

git-imerge - Incremental merge for git

bat-extras - Bash scripts that integrate bat with various command line tools.