What Comes After Git

1. difftastic

   1 77 22,154 9.6 Rust

   a structural diff that understands syntax 🟥🟩

   

   Several threads here point to difftastic: https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic

   I know a lot of people who have a lot of hope for diffsitter (or something like it): https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter

   Personally, I think the reason most "good" semantic diff tools are proprietary is that they are huge amounts of effort that are mostly "hacks" and "heuristics" bandaged together in ways that people don't want to let out how the sausage was made.

   But I also "general, language agnostic AST-based semantic diff" is a mountain peak we cannot reach (probably ever), and I believe my experiments found an interesting local maxima that people are maybe sleeping on (lexer-based diffs rather than parser-based diffs): https://github.com/WorldMaker/tokdiff

2. InfluxDB

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3. jj

   2 114 9,804 10.0 Rust

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

   

   You might be interested in my project git-branchless https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless or the Git-compatible Jujutsu SCM https://github.com/martinvonz/jj, both of which have version control for commit history via an operation log. Both feature sensible `undo` commands.

4. watchman

   3 35 13,054 9.1 C++

   Watches files and records, or triggers actions, when they change.

   

   How about `git status`?

   The first SSD I bought back in 2008 was to put a large git repo on it; it helped. With much larger repos, like those I had to work with at Facebook, even an NVMe drive becomes a bit uncomfortable, and one has to use something like Watchman [1] to track changes without a rather noticeable delay.

   [1]: https://github.com/facebook/watchman

5. git-issue

   4 14 797 1.7 Shell

   Git-based decentralized issue management

   

6. gitless

   5 3 26 1.8 Python

   A maintained fork of the simple git interface (by goldstar611)

   

   The original author hasn't updated it in a long time, but I've been using a maintained fork that's been pretty sweet: https://github.com/goldstar611/gitless

7. git-branchless

   6 61 3,674 9.1 Rust

   High-velocity, monorepo-scale workflow for Git

   

   You might be interested in my project git-branchless https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless or the Git-compatible Jujutsu SCM https://github.com/martinvonz/jj, both of which have version control for commit history via an operation log. Both feature sensible `undo` commands.

8. forge

   7 17 1,417 9.5 Emacs Lisp

   Work with Git forges from the comfort of Magit (by magit)

   

   For magit users, there's https://github.com/magit/forge - ultimately the store of record is still centralized as it's GitHub/GitLab/etc., but it does integrate a local copy of it nicely with your other git operations.

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10. josh

    8 21 1,579 7.1 Rust

    Just One Single History

    

    With regard to repo composition, I have been following this project: https://github.com/josh-project/josh

11. dotfiles

    9 1 3 4.4 Shell

    My generic dotfiles (by flurdy)

    

    Since I often play with razors by rebasing, resetting, cherry picking, etc locally - I created a `git tmp` alias so I can play without fear of needing to go reflog diving again.

    The `tmp` command creates a commit of all changes, branches it, then rolls back the commit.

    [1] https://github.com/flurdy/dotfiles/blob/master/.config/fish/...

12. got

    10 12 128 6.1 Go

    Got is like git, but with an 'o' (by gotvc)

    

    I've been working on a project "Got". Which deals with the LFS problem, mentioned in the post.

    https://github.com/gotvc/got

    Got isn't really trying to do software version control better than Git. It's trying to make general purpose file versioning practical, with a workflow similar to Git's.

13. diffsitter

    11 18 1,748 8.2 Rust

    A tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs

    

    Several threads here point to difftastic: https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic

    I know a lot of people who have a lot of hope for diffsitter (or something like it): https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter

    Personally, I think the reason most "good" semantic diff tools are proprietary is that they are huge amounts of effort that are mostly "hacks" and "heuristics" bandaged together in ways that people don't want to let out how the sausage was made.

    But I also "general, language agnostic AST-based semantic diff" is a mountain peak we cannot reach (probably ever), and I believe my experiments found an interesting local maxima that people are maybe sleeping on (lexer-based diffs rather than parser-based diffs): https://github.com/WorldMaker/tokdiff

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