Git Is Not Fine

8 hours ago

The article advocates for trying 'jj' by critiquing Git's limitations in distributed workflows.
Git excels as a distributed source store but its workflow tools are often an afterthought, causing pain in async development.
Classic Git diagrams misrepresent reality; commits lack inherent ordering and relationships, making stacked PRs fragile.
Git's mutable branch pointers and immutable commits complicate operations like rebasing stacked changes without losing context.
The staging area and working copy add complexity, leading to issues like accidental commits and difficulty managing parallel work.
Examples show Git struggles with maintaining multiple in-flight PRs simultaneously in a developer's editing workspace.
The author suggests Git is outdated for distributed teams, with companies like Meta using superior internal systems.
LLMs may increase async development, exacerbating Git's shortcomings rather than mitigating them.

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