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Git
sapling | Git | |
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43 | 287 | |
5,815 | 50,099 | |
1.1% | 1.6% | |
10.0 | 10.0 | |
2 days ago | 4 days ago | |
Rust | C | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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sapling
- Monorepos: Please Don't (2019)
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Twenty Years Is Nothing
I am personally surprised that TFA didn't mention either jj or Sapling [0] given its emphasis on how both Git and svn were both made to be backwards compatible!
[0] https://github.com/facebook/sapling
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Jj init – getting serious about replacing Git with Jujutsu
Lots to digest here! I have been keeping an eye on Pijul so it is cool to see some of its features implemented in jj. Sapling[0], similarly, is a new VCS tool out there which can work with a git repo. It also has anonymous branches, no staging area, supports stacked commits and can track the history of a commit over time. I've been using a similar workflow to the article's author: git with a UI to handle commits of hunks of a file to group related changes. My working branch often has unrelated changes that get tossed from branch to branch as I am able to commit. I haven't figured out where these new tools fit into my workflow yet, but I am glad there's new options that will help making working on a project more flexible and organized.
[0]: https://sapling-scm.com
- Sapling – A VCS from Meta
- Sapling: A Scalable, User-Friendly Source Control System
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Ask HN: Can we do better than Git for version control?
yep both extended it and have versions that can work against GitHub/git servers.
sapling scm from meta has I think the best cli and VS code UX https://sapling-scm.com/
jj from google is also mercurial derived with very similar cli features like histedit and has support for deferring conflict resolution https://github.com/martinvonz/jj
- Your GitHub pull request workflow is slowing you down
- Sapling – A Scalable, User-Friendly Source Control System
- Mononoke
Git
- Git tracks itself. See it's first commit of itself
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Resistance against London tube map commit history (a.k.a. git merge hell) (2015)
Look at any PR/patch series that got merged into the Git project. https://github.com/git/git/
Any random one. Because those that did not meet the minimum criteria for a well-crafted history would not have passed review.
- GitHub Git Mirror Down
- Four ways to solve the "Remote Origin Already Exists" error.
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So You Think You Know Git – Git Tips and Tricks by Scott Chacon
Boy, I can't find this either (but also, the kernel mailing list is _really_ difficult to search). I really remember Linus saying something like "it's not a real SCM, but maybe someone could build one on top of it someday" or something like that, but I cannot figure out how to find that.
You _can_ see, though, that in his first README, he refers to what he's building as not a "real SCM":
https://github.com/git/git/commit/e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23...
- Maintain-Git.txt
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Git Commit Messages by Jeff King
Here is the direct link, as HN somehow removes the query string: https://github.com/git/git/commits?author=peff&since=2023-10...
- Git commit messages by Jeff King
- My favourite Git commit (2019)
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Do we think of Git commits as diffs, snapshots, and/or histories?
I understand all that.
I'm saying, if you write a survey and one of the possible answers is "diff", but you don't clearly define what you mean by "diff", then don't be surprised if respondents use any reasonable definition that makes sense to them. Ask an ambiguous question, get a mishmash of answers.
The thing that Git uses for packfiles is called a "delta" by Git, but it's also reasonable to call it a "diff". After all, Git's delta algorithm is "greatly inspired by parts of LibXDiff from Davide Libenzi"[1]. Not LibXDelta but LibXDiff.
Yes, how Git stores blobs (using deltas) is orthogonal to how Git uses blobs. But while that orthogonality is useful for reasoning about Git, it's not wrong to think of a commit as the totality of what Git does, including that optimization. (Some people, when learning Git, stumble over the way it's described as storing full copies, think it's wasteful. For them to wrap their heads around Git, they have to understand that the optimization exists. Which makes sense because Git probably wouldn't be practical if it lacked that optimization.)
The reason I'm bringing all this up is, if you're trying to explain Git, which is what the original article is about, then it's very important to keep in mind that someone who is learning Git needs to know what you mean when you say "diff". Most people who already know Git would tend to gravitate toward the definition of "diff" that you're assuming (the thing that Git computes on the fly and never stores), but people who already know Git aren't the target audience when you're teaching Git.
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[1] https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/diff-delta.c
What are some alternatives?
go-git - A highly extensible Git implementation in pure Go.
scalar - Scalar: A set of tools and extensions for Git to allow very large monorepos to run on Git without a virtualization layer
nextjs-template - A bit personalized version of the `with-typescript-eslint-jest` template.
PineappleCAS - A generic computer algebra system targeted for the TI-84+ CE calculators
FTC-for-VS-Code - A VS Code extension for accessing FTC snippets, debugger, and Android cmdline tools from a button
Subversion - Mirror of Apache Subversion
buck2-prelude - Prelude for the Buck2 project
vscode-gitlens - Supercharge Git inside VS Code and unlock untapped knowledge within each repository — Visualize code authorship at a glance via Git blame annotations and CodeLens, seamlessly navigate and explore Git repositories, gain valuable insights via rich visualizations and powerful comparison commands, and so much more
reactide - Reactide is the first dedicated IDE for React web application development.
linux - Linux kernel source tree
dulwich - Pure-Python Git implementation
chromebrew - Package manager for Chrome OS [Moved to: https://github.com/chromebrew/chromebrew]