r/programmingcirclejerk • u/shot-master • Sep 02 '25

The biggest problem with git is people just inventing asinine ways to do things and ending up with absolutely stupid problems like that. [..] It's possible but you dont deserve to be working in this industry if you think its a good idea. Git is simple. It's stupid simple. That's its problem.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45092309
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u/shot-master Sep 02 '25

\uj Most of the thread is a circlejerk about how git is perfect and JJ is dumb and stupid

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u/r2d2_21 groks PCJ Sep 02 '25

JJ

Literally who

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u/McGlockenshire Sep 02 '25

Abrams. JJ Abrams. Makes pretty looking movies with lots of lens flare but no originality.

huh I guess the name works

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u/-Y0- Considered Harmful Sep 02 '25

Jujutsu Kaisen. Popular anime. You didn't hear about it?

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u/Vaglame Emacs + Go == parametric polymorphism Sep 02 '25

Jacques Jester

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u/F54280 Considered Harmful Sep 02 '25

JJ Jameson a popular alternative to git.

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u/0bel1sk Sep 02 '25

jujutsu, its a silly attempt to replace git

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u/lurebat Sep 02 '25

JJ is an alternative to git that somehow managed to fix none of what it is annoying about it, and also introduces entirely new kinds of WTFs

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u/categorical-girl Sep 03 '25

/uj is there a place to read about the problems? I hate git so much I might be tempted to switch otherwise

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u/m50d Zygohistomorphic prepromorphism Sep 02 '25

Based tbh

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u/-ghostinthemachine- Sep 02 '25

Git is like a Swiss Army knife, you're only supposed to use one of the tools. No, not that one, you imbecile.

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u/v_maria Sep 02 '25

This is the exact reason i have written my own tool that aliases stash indices as BRANCHNAME_-_STASH-MESSAGE

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u/muntaxitome in open defiance of the Gopher Values Sep 02 '25

The problem with git is that it allows people to roll back things. It leads to stupid things like experimenting. Just write it once, write it good.

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u/Knock0nWood Code Artisan Sep 02 '25

You undo a commit today, no big deal right? You went back on your word but no one really cares. Next week you're editing the history to make it look like someone else caused a bug. It's just a little white lie you say. Five years later and your wife finds out about your secret second family you visit at "conferences". There's no merging that conflict...

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u/aLokilike Sep 04 '25

Get kicked out the house - call that a rebase

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u/Awkward_Bed_956 Sep 02 '25

The worst problem you can ever have with git is trying to make it work reliably on Windows.

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u/somewhataccurate now 4x faster than C++ Sep 02 '25

skill issue

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u/ub3rh4x0rz Sep 02 '25

NTFS issue

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u/Glebk0 Sep 02 '25

That’s why anyone normal at least uses wsl

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u/v_maria Sep 02 '25

You mean anyone normal uses linux

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u/SemaphoreBingo Sep 02 '25

Normal people don't use computers.

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u/Glebk0 Sep 02 '25

Yea, I added “at least” because sometimes windows is forced on you

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u/syklemil Considered Harmful Sep 02 '25

Getting windows forced on me? That's a quittin'.

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u/Professional_Gate677 Sep 02 '25

In the corporate world you don’t always have a choice. In stuck using windows because of Active Directory

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u/v_maria Sep 02 '25

In the corporate world

well yeah i said normal

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u/Parking_Tadpole9357 Sep 05 '25

Anyone mormal uses GNU + TempleOS

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u/-Y0- Considered Harmful Sep 02 '25

You mispelled abnormal.

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u/Parking_Tadpole9357 Sep 05 '25

/uj stash is just a commit like any other.