Jujutsu: a new, Git-compatible version control system [LWN.net]

Jujutsu: a new, Git-compatible version control system

Posted Jan 22, 2024 11:49 UTC (Mon) by zdzichu (subscriber, #17118)
In reply to: Jujutsu: a new, Git-compatible version control system by amacater
Parent article: Jujutsu: a new, Git-compatible version control system

I concur that CLAs are off-putting. On the topic of Git clients, Meta has their own called Sapling (https://lwn.net/Articles/915104/). It requires CLA. Did we hear about Sapling often? Not really.

Jujutsu may fall into obscurity because of CLA. Just like Sapling.

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Jujutsu: a new, Git-compatible version control system

Posted Jan 22, 2024 14:52 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

> Jujutsu may fall into obscurity because of CLA. Just like Sapling.

You are deluded if you think CLA caused Sapling or, e.g., Google's repo to fail.

One simple counterexample: React from the same company as Sapling was adopted by people, and it requires CLA, too.

Sapling just wasn't interesting to anyone who doesn't work with terabyte-sized repos (and most people who have such repos have specialized tools to use with them).

Same with Jujutsu: if it would fail it would fail not because of CLA but because people would see nothing interesting to adopt it for.