I've not used Pijul, but I used Darcs — which Pijul is essentially an improved clone of — for half a decade, and I assume it's roughly the same. The patch mode

I've not used Pijul, but I used Darcs — which Pijul is essentially an improved clone of — for half a decade, and I assume it's roughly the same. The patch model is incredible. Think of "git cherry-pick". Imagine you could use that instead of "git merge" or "git rebase" for all your work. Imagine that every time you cherry-picked, it would tell you which additional commits you'd need, and then pick them for you. And that when you merged your heavily cherry-picked branch back into the mainline, it just worked. That's Pijul/Darcs. One doesn't have to understand the "theory of patches" to use Pijul/Darcs. As a user, you just work with changes, just like Git. But the UX is much simpler than Git — in a good way. I remember switching from Darcs to Git back in 2008 or so. It was like switching out a sleek spaceship [] for an old rusty, clanking pickup truck. Git has gotten better over the years, but ultimately, I think Github was the killer app, not Git. Going back technical merits alone, Darcs and Mercurial "should" have won that battle. [] Albeit one that occasionally choked on its dark matter fuel for mysterious reasons. That alone contributed to a large part of the decline of Darcs. Apparently this is a solved problem in Pijul.