- Facebook does not use Git due to scale issues with their large monorepo, instead opting for Mercurial.
- Mercurial may be a better option for large monorepos, but Git has made improvements to support them better.
- Despite some drawbacks, Git usage remains dominant with 93.87% share, due to familiarity, additional tools, and industry trends.
jujutsu is a fresh take on git-- you describe the work you’re about to do with jj new -m 'message'
. Do the work. Anything not previously ignored in .gitignore
is ready to commit with jj ci
. You don’t have to git add
anything. No futzing with stashes to switch or refocus work. Need that file back? jj restore FILENAME
.
It’s very optimistic to think people will be able to describe what they’re going to do before they do it. I find things rarely go exactly as planned and my commit messages usually include some nuance about my changes that I didn’t anticipate.