Sapling SCM Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Show HN: Sapling is a business-ready TypeScript, Express.js, React boilerplate

  Sapling is a source Code Management System releases by meta https://sapling-scm.com. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• Jj init – getting serious about replacing Git with Jujutsu

  Lots to digest here! I have been keeping an eye on Pijul so it is cool to see some of its features implemented in jj. Sapling[0], similarly, is a new VCS tool out there which can work with a git repo. It also has anonymous branches, no staging area, supports stacked commits and can track the history of a commit over time. I've been using a similar workflow to the article's author: git with a UI to handle commits... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Ask HN: Can we do better than Git for version control?

  Yep both extended it and have versions that can work against GitHub/git servers. Sapling scm from meta has I think the best cli and VS code UX https://sapling-scm.com/ jj from google is also mercurial derived with very similar cli features like histedit and has support for deferring conflict resolution https://github.com/martinvonz/jj. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Ask HN: Can we do better than Git for version control?

  Fossil by sqlite think so as does Sapling by Facebook https://sapling-scm.com. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• I (kind of) killed Mercurial at Mozilla

  Yup! In fact Meta’s implementation is open sourced as Sapling SCM and includes both Mercurial and Git support[1]. Internally the main repository use Mercurial although I believe a few legacy projects still use git. [1] https://sapling-scm.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Confusing Git Terminology

  If you want something you can use with existing git repos, there's also https://github.com/martinvonz/jj. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Is full rewrite ever a good idea? And what does a successful one look like?

  We don't use git, we use heavily forked Mercurial https://sapling-scm.com/. Source: 11 months ago

• Yes, I am an intern working for last 5 months

  Https://sapling-scm.com/ just got open sourced by Meta. Source: about 1 year ago

• What software is so good you can’t believe it’s free?

  Anyway, it's open source now. They called it Sapling. I understand your skepticism, I was skeptical too. Give it a serious try though. It really is better than git, just not as popular. Source: about 1 year ago

• How often should you commit changes?

  I work for the company that publishes https://sapling-scm.com. stacked changes are wonderful, the nicest workflow Ive ever used. I commit constantly, and the trail of small, interactive, and fully testable changes makes it so my coworkers can see, not just my change, but the process I went through to get there. They can even add feedback on specific lines in intermediate changes. Source: over 1 year ago

• Branchless Workflow for Git

  Https://github.com/martinvonz/jj are good steps in this direction! - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Where are my Git UI features from the future?

  Sapling has basically combined Mercurial’s UI/UX, and added several more nice features on top, and added Git as a backend (ie, you can use sapling to seamlessly contribute to git projects) - https://sapling-scm.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git

  Meta has https://sapling-scm.com/ Google's uses Piper which is not public. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago