Steve's Jujutsu Tutorial
This tutorial exists because of a particular quirk of mine: I love to write tutorials about things as I learn them. This is the backstory of TRPL, of which an ancient draft was "Rust for Rubyists." You only get to look at a problem as a beginner once, and so I think writing this stuff down is interesting. It also helps me clarify what I'm learning to myself.
Anyway, I have been interested in version control for a long time. I feel like I am the only person alive who doesn't mind git's CLI. That's weird. I also heard friends rave about "stacked diffs" but struggled to understand what exactly was going on there. Nothing I read or conversations I had have clicked.
One time I was talking with Rain about this and she mentioned jj being very cool. I looked at it but I didn't get it. I decided to maybe just come back to this topic later. A very common thing people have when learning Rust is, they'll try it, quit in frustration, and then come back months later and it's easy and they don't know what they were struggling with. Of course, some people never try again, and some who try don't get over the hump, but this used to happen quite often, enough to be remarkable. So that's what I decided with jj. I'd figure this stuff out later.
Well, recently Chris Krycho wrote an article about jj. I liked it. I didn't fully grok everything, but it at least felt like I could understand this thing finally maybe. I didn't install it, but just sat with it for a while.
