Scott Chacon

Love the new website overhaul for the GitButler CLI. gitbutler.com/cli

@ImJasonH lol, that’s hilarious

@chacon DAS CLAU

Do you suppose Germany knows they're doing this as a non-german company. Also, does it follow proper GDPR rules? Also, does it work on Sundays?

@mfts0 Right?

@chacon Wo is the Impressum?

@samuellhuber haha, wrong. gdpr applies for every website that serves anything to any EU resident. hope you have your ducks in order if anyone globally uses your website.

@chacon not sure, but for sure GDPR would apply as .de is german space of the web

I'm pretty impressed with how often I ask agents questions about a codebase. I've used it so m any times now to figure out some subtle question about a git implementation detail

Congratulations. 3 weeks later they fixed the issue. You may be wondering what the issue was. Me too. Nothing was wrong and no information about how to avoid it in the future.

Does anyone operating in Germany have a startup friendly bank they like? All of a sudden @getqonto is returning wires and there is no customer service to figure it out. Please don't say DB or DKB - is there a @mercury of EU?

My kids new ball cap I think is titled “German T-Rex at a stop light, trying to see if the light is green.”

@nektro There are other signatures styles and places - it's pretty well documented (in a file that's not simple to find): git-scm.com/docs/gitformat…

It's more or less described in Junio's commit that introduces commit signing. Basically Linus added an example of how to sign a tag about 3 weeks into the Git project in the simplest possible way: github.com/git/git/commit… When signing commits was added about 6 years later (even after GitHub was started), there was too much tooling built around how things already worked, so stuffing it in the header seemed an acceptable hack that wouldn't break things like appending it to the message and making everything strip it out by looking for the ascii armor. github.com/git/git/commit…

so for tags it appears git puts the signature at the end of the message instead of nicely in the gpgsig field like it does for commits?

It's an interesting question. JJ vs GitButler is pretty apples-to-apples - both using popular skills and having the toolset to do complex VCS stuff. Git is unique because the model itself knows how to use Git so no skill needed. But also it doesn't have good tooling for non-interactive complex stuff (rebase -i, etc) which is partially why it's so slow to do some of these things. That said, for these tasks (amending, squashing, partial committing), it's about as fair as I can imagine.

@chacon @krlvi @gitbutler Does the benchmark compare the `but`-skill-aware agent vs an un-skill-ed git/jj agent? Wouldn't it be more a apples-to-apples comparison to document for agents how to do the same operations with git/jj as thoroughly as you do with the `but` skill?

@krlvi did some pretty cool evals trying to determine how @gitbutler stacks up against Git and Jujutsu when being used by agents. While I assumed `but` would be better than Git since the CLI is optimized for that, I was surprised by JJ's benchmarks. blog.gitbutler.com/vcbench

@jnunemaker I gave an interview to Die Zeit when Fable was shut down and they were like “what happens now that only part of the world has access to this super intelligence” and I was like “its honestly not a big deal” 😂

@chacon I should have. Was just lazy. Today I was like I should at least use some free fable for something before it costs something. I used it for a bunch of things I was already working on and found it barely better if at all than opus.

Just used Claude Fable to fully migrate johnnunemaker.com (all pages and posts) to Cloudflare from Ghost. I liked ghost but I've paid $18-36/mo for years and I don't write enough to make it worth it. Now its free and still just write some markdown and publish. I was barely involved. Impressed!

@anaisbetts I can tell you that I’m _not_ a good developer and I’m certainly not only 1 point below Ani.

Look, I'm a pretty good developer, I'm not sure if I'm "Tied with Linus Torvalds" level of good

@ttaylorr_b @github Sorry, meant “git release”, 😂

@ttaylorr_b @github I’ve very much enjoyed working with you and GitHub over the last few years. Also, I will hugely miss the amazing blog posts you’ve put together for every major GitHub release for the last several years. Best wishes Taylor!

After a little more than ~10 years, I have decided to leave GitHub and today is my last day. Working at GitHub has given me experiences I never thought I'd have. I'm extremely grateful for my time at GitHub, but most of all for the people who I got to work with along the way.

@andrewmccalip @Madisonkanna This is a great list. Was going to try because @appfactory did, but I cant do much better than this.

@Madisonkanna Neuromancer Cryptonomicon Expanse Bobiverse Seveneves Rendezvous with Rama Blindsight Spin Children of Time Player of Games Delta-v Diaspora The Three-Body Problem

What’s your favorite science fiction book? On a big sci fi kick right now

It’s interesting to look back at the old github blog posts. The super early ones were very short and sweet. Even as we grew, they stayed fun and human. It’s rare to see this these days. Thought of this when finding a post on our old Dodgeball tourney. github.blog/news-insights/…

@bzbetty @gitbutler @krlvi github.com/gitbutlerapp/g…

@bzbetty @gitbutler Yeah, I have a PR open to solve this (but integrate) but it's not yet merged. /cc @krlvi

if u live in the terminal, `but tui` is probably the fastest way to organize your git commits and stack your branches. check out our very own @chacon showing off how inTUItive it is ❤️📺