alt Hacker NewsNo, jj is not a wrapper around git. It is a source control system of its own that has git as one of at least two production backends. This distinction matters because git wrappers don't tend to have fundamental concepts of their own like the operation and evolution logs.
jj is in practice a wrapper around Git
it is built, though, that the Git backend can be swapped for another backend.
I'm not sure where you're getting two production backends from. I guess you're referring to the Google internal one that nobody can use?
> There is currently only one production-ready builtin commit backend: the Git backend. <omitted> Google also has its own cloud-based backend.
https://docs.jj-vcs.dev/latest/glossary/?utm_source=chatgpt....