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Isaac Corbrey
Personal blog · isaaccorbrey.com/ramblings · on HN as icorbreyprogrammingweb
Isaac Corbrey's personal blog at isaaccorbrey.com covers programming and web. Since 2026, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Jujutsu Megamerges for Fun and Profit”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked posts about the Jujutsu (jj) 'megamerge' workflow, where in-progress workstreams are merged into one top-level commit. Commenters discuss it in the context of git history rules and VCS tooling.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I like building tools, breaking workflows, and putting them back together better.
Most-linked posts?
- Jujutsu Megamerges for Fun and Profit3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-04-20
What Hacker News says?
One of the golden rules of git is: Don't rewrite public history (for example by rebasing and force-pushing already published commits). The article hints at immutable and mutable commits ( https://isaaccorbrey.com/notes/jujutsu-megamerges-for-fun-an... ) but I am unsure about how fundamental this protection is. I don't want to ruin my co-worker's day by accidentally rewriting public history.
Comment linking /notes/jujutsu-megamerges-for-fun-and-profit
on “Jujutsu Megamerges for Fun and Profit”Submitted Jujutsu Megamerges for Fun and Profit as a story · 8 points
HN discussionThis remind me of [jj megamerge]( https://isaaccorbrey.com/notes/jujutsu-megamerges-for-fun-an... ). jj allows concentrating on developing while leaving things for vcs alone, as well as solving vcs things (conflicts) at very beginning (megamerge). Really good.
Comment linking /notes/jujutsu-megamerges-for-fun-and-profit
on “Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu”Submitted Webrings as Collective OAuth as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf you feel like fucking around with new source control tools, jj (jujutsu)'s megamerge workflow is really good at this. (If you're not interested, feel free to skip the rest of this). I have each in process workstream in a commit that is merged at the top level, then I have a new wip commit off of that where stuff I'm typing right now sits. It's easy to split/squash/absorb parts of that commit into the right destin…
Comment linking /notes/jujutsu-megamerges-for-fun-and-profit
on “Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video]”Submitted Jujutsu / jj megamerges for fun and profit as a story · 2 points
HN discussion