[HN Gopher] Show HN: I created a cross-platform GUI for the JJ V...
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Show HN: I created a cross-platform GUI for the JJ VCS (Git
compatible)
Personally, I think the JJ VCS (https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj) hit a
point some time in this past year where I find it hard to find a
great reason to continue using git. Over the years I've cobbled
together aliases and bash functions to try to improve my git
workflow, but after using jj, which works with ~any git repo and
integrates great with Github repos, all of the workflow issues I
ran into with git are not only solved, but improved in ways I
couldn't manage with simple scripts. One example is the op log,
which lets you go to any point in your repo's time and provides
simple undo and redo commands when you want to back out of a merge,
didn't mean to rebase, etc. Because I have a pretty strong
conviction that JJ is at this point a cleaner and more powerful
version of git, my hopes are that it continues to grow. With that,
it seemed a proper full-featured GUI was missing for the VCS.
There's some plugins that add some integration into VS Code, and
there's one in the works to get Intellij support working, but many
of the constructs JJ provides in my opinion necessitate a grounds-
up build of a GUI around how JJ works. Right now, Judo for JJ is
an MVP in an open beta. I did my best to support all of the core
functionality one would need, though there's many nice-to-haves
that I am going to add, like native merge support, native
splitting, etc. Most of this will be based on feedback from the
Beta. I'm really grateful for the great community JJ has built,
alongside the HN community itself in the countless VCS-based posts
I've read over the years, and am hoping for lots of input here
during Beta under real usage - the goal is to be a full-featured
desktop GUI for the VCS, similar to many of the great products that
are out there for git.
Author : bitpatch
Score : 36 points
Date : 2025-10-20 15:35 UTC (7 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (judojj.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (judojj.com)
| harryyking wrote:
| Awesome would love to follow this journey
| IshKebab wrote:
| 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).
| chrisweekly wrote:
| I'm confused -- what would you be going back from, given your
| preferred VSCode extension is abandoned?
| martinvonz wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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!
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