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The git history command deserves more attention (lalitm.com)
submitted 2 days ago by HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org to c/programming@programming.dev
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Working with lots of changes in parallel on git can be painful. You end up juggling branches and commits, and running scary rebase -i commands that can leave your tree in a half-broken state if you so much as sneeze.

jj, an alternative to git, gets discussed a lot these days (1, 2, 3, 4) and is often pitched as a solution. While I’m very sold on the problems jj is trying to solve, the way it solves them hasn’t quite hit home with me. Every 3 months, for the last 1.5 years, I try it out for a few days, really trying to make it part of my workflow but eventually I give up and go back to git.

That’s where git history comes in.

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[–] litchralee@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

in doing preparatory refactoring, adding the feature, adding tests, and his can be easier to review because the scope of each commit is smaller.

This is the use-case I hadn't considered. And it makes sense now that I think of it. Though I personally haven't come across it, since I don't typically work on multiple, cascaded features at a time. Most of my work as been with waterfall models, so I can understand that other approaches may indeed have cascading features in parallel.

Thanks!

[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

You are welcome!