113 points by bitpatch 17 hours ago | 14 comments
onatm 1 hour ago
This looks great though I like TUIs more. I’ve been using https://github.com/idursun/jjui for the last few months, I highly recommend it if you are a TUI person like me.
KempyKolibri 42 minutes ago
jjui is amazing, sometimes I feel like I shouldn't rely on it so much so I learn the CLI, but it's just so useful!
martinvonz 11 hours ago
Thanks for working on this project!

It was mentioned on the JJ Discord server that there doesn't seem to be any information available about who you are. Especially since the project seems to be closed-source, perhaps you could share some information about who you are in order to build trust.

I hope you understand. I think users may hesitate to download and install the application without knowing anything about its publisher.

bitpatch 11 hours ago
Totally understandable! I'm a solo dev out of LA who's mostly consulted on various apps and sites over the years, and out of my own personal need I began working on the project earlier this year.

The project is indeed closed-source. Personally I've had experiences where I found the project moved forward towards the roadmap much faster - specifically when considering smaller-scale projects that are UI heavy and therefore take in many UI changes in parallel - when I instead implemented feature requests and focused most of my energy on listening to user feedback rather than reviewing code. UI polish can be quite tricky when it comes from many sources :)

That said, nothing is set in stone! If at some point there are enough feature requests to where I am the bottleneck, this is something I would revisit.

I'd be happy to hop on the Discord as well!

MrJohz 4 hours ago
You can make the code open source without accepting pull requests or contributions from other people. You might still get pull requests or patches, but you can set expectations up front and then ignore/auto-close any contributions you get.

This is how SQLite is developed, for example.

socalgal2 5 hours ago
More power to you! I bought Sublime Merge. I'd consider buying yours once it has a little more history. I've been using gg and really miss a side-by-side diff view. Maybe that makes less sense with jj though
juped 6 hours ago
That's their choice, don't try to pressure them to self-dox. What is wrong with you / the "JJ Discord server"? Please identify yourself and everyone there so I can be sure to up my paranoia around each of you.
martinvonz 5 hours ago
I think you misunderstood. I didn't ask for their name. Luckily the author didn't seem to misunderstand.

As for information about me, you can search the internet for my username. Let me know if you don't find anything and I can try to help. I'm not going to share information about others on the Discord server.

ambentzen 25 minutes ago
Looks neat, have you considered releasing an AppImage for wider Linux support?
deevus 3 hours ago
Since no one has asked. What is the tech stack?
jgtrosh 3 hours ago
From the Discord:

> It's a compose multiplatform[1] app, and it's templated-output-parsed rather than Rust-based.

[1]: https://www.jetbrains.com/compose-multiplatform/

zem 2 hours ago
interesting, would love to read more about the experience of using compose multiplatform for this
swoorup 1 hour ago
not to be that annoying guy, but does anyone have a nix flake for this xD ?
stavros 8 hours ago
I haven't managed to try this because the "select repo" does nothing on Ubuntu 24.04. It doesn't seem I can actually perform any action at all.
cies 1 hour ago
There are a lot of new use cases for VCSes with AI around.
swaits 6 hours ago
This looks great! Excited to try out out and play with it!
aaomidi 8 hours ago
I wish this was open source. Even if you kept comments etc disabled.

Or if you shipped the source code alongside the binary. Or just had a zip of the source.

harryyking 12 hours ago
Awesome would love to follow this journey
g00k 6 hours ago
This is so cool. Man I need to find another line of work there are too many cracked devs out there
IshKebab 11 hours ago
It's difficult to go back to a separate VCS app after using IDE git support (specifically VSCode & the 'git graph' extension which is sadly permanently abandoned).
tcoff91 5 hours ago
I think there’s a JJ vscode plugin
ilyagr 9 hours ago
VS Code now has an OKish git graph built-in, in case you didn't know. This feature is a few months old.
IshKebab 1 hour ago
Yeah I did but it's merely OKish as you said. Git Graph is still significantly better.
chrisweekly 10 hours ago
I'm confused -- what would you be going back from, given your preferred VSCode extension is abandoned?
IshKebab 1 hour ago
Even though it's abandoned it still works perfectly fine and I still use it.
ambentzen 29 minutes ago
Doesn't that make it "complete" as opposed to "abandoned"?

Everything does not need constant updates and new features.

haykuro 5 hours ago
give "git lens" a try.
IshKebab 1 hour ago
Yeah I've used it for a long time but not for its commit graph feature, which still isn't as nice as Git Graph. Actually the main feature I used it for was "Compare working tree with <commit>" which gives you a nice "what have I changed overall" view but one where the files are editable still in the diff view.

However I found this better extension for that: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=letmaik....

So I don't really need Git Lens any more, which is good because they've made it all commercial and annoying.

rana762 3 hours ago
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lolmisfortune 7 hours ago
Nitpick: "judo" and "jujutsu" are already heavily used terms. Googling around for information about this, at least for me, is pretty difficult. Judo is an international olympic sport, jujutsu is one of the most famous traditional japanese martial arts, jiu jitsu is the most popular submission base for MMA...

I'd love a rebrand or rename in order to avoid having to work around the name collision.

Best of luck!

jgtrosh 3 hours ago
"JudoJJ" is quite distinct and searchable imo