From 2cdb7679918b311622bfe527772923de7cf2559b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin von Zweigbergk Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 13:07:50 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] docs: explain that jj was started 3 years before Sapling announcement Someone at work asked me why I started jj when Sapling already existed. Let's clarify that I started it before. --- docs/sapling-comparison.md | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/sapling-comparison.md b/docs/sapling-comparison.md index de1c6b9803..cf4ba27c98 100644 --- a/docs/sapling-comparison.md +++ b/docs/sapling-comparison.md @@ -3,10 +3,11 @@ ## Introduction This document attempts to describe how jj is different -from [Sapling](https://sapling-scm.com). Sapling is a VCS developed by Meta. It is a -heavily modified fork of [Mercurial](https://www.mercurial-scm.org/). Because -jj has copied many ideas from Mercurial, there are many similarities between the -two tools, such as: +from [Sapling](https://sapling-scm.com). Sapling is a VCS developed by Meta. It +was announced about 3 years after development started on jj. It is a heavily +modified fork of [Mercurial](https://www.mercurial-scm.org/). Because jj has +copied many ideas from Mercurial, there are many similarities between the two +tools, such as: * A user-friendly CLI * A "[revset](revsets.md)" language for selecting revisions