@ed709062 maybe this one has been beaten to death, but: "premature optimization, yadda yadda yadda" 

 @e06c1f25 i just started reading about it last night, but the big rule change, "HEAD is always amended automatically before anything else happens (like displaying the log), so the working copy is never dirty, and there's no index" is super interesting. 

It seems like it could be a lot easier to teach! 

 @e06c1f25 i need someone to write up a comparison of git-branchless and the jujutsu project from google: 

https://github.com/martinvonz/jj
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx_LGilOuE4