Ask HN: Git Alternatives – Sapling vs. Jj

1. jj

   1 114 9,804 10.0 Rust

   Discontinued A Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful [Moved to: https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj]

   

   have you experienced particularly slow pushes with large repositories at all, and if so were you able to resolve them?

   I did some profiling & it looks like the issue lies with `libgit2`, but I haven’t been able to replicate the issue outside of that work codebase[0].

   [0]: https://github.com/martinvonz/jj/issues/1841#issuecomment-23...

2. SaaSHub

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   SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

   

3. git-branchless

   2 58 3,515 9.2 Rust

   High-velocity, monorepo-scale workflow for Git

   You can run the tests on each commit in parallel if you're okay with wasting CPU time to save wall-clock time. git-branchless can speculatively run linear or binary search in parallel up to a user-specified number of jobs [1], and I'd like it add it to jj someday, as it's one of the features I miss most.

   (To run the tests in parallel, git-branchless provisions its own worktrees. For binary search, it speculatively executes the search for the potential success and failure cases; when the number of jobs is a power of 2, this partitions the search space evenly.)

   [1]: https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/wiki/Command:-git-...

4. sapling

   3 48 6,239 10.0 Rust

   A Scalable, User-Friendly Source Control System.

   

   Having worked at Google I have unfortunately been exposed to what is possible when in comes to version control systems. I have been looking for a git alternative that is just generally simpler, more ergonomic, and allows for things like stacked PRs while maintaining git compatibility, since everything is on github.

   I am uninterested in `you can do that in git with [insert esoteric commands]`.

   My main contenders right now are Sapling[0], a project from Meta, and jj[1]. I am wondering if anyone has experience with either, or definitely those who have tried both, what was your experience? They both have a lot of nice features.

   [0] https://sapling-scm.com/

5. jj-fzf

   4 1 41 9.8 Shell

   Text UI for Jujutsu based on fzf, centering around the jj log with key bindings for common operations

   For a quick impression, the jj-fzf README has a number of screencasts that showcase tasks easily accomplished with jj (using fzf to preview the jj log and key bindings to invoke jj commands):

   https://github.com/tim-janik/jj-fzf?tab=readme-ov-file#split...

   (Another self-promotion)

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