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brief notes on pijul

i wanted to leave a brief phlog here on my first experiences with the pijul version control system. in my last post, i linked to my gemini-projects repo on the pijul nest. i am very happy with the pijul experience thus far, considering how early the software is in its development. a couple of points:

when i first created a repo on the nest, i was unable to visit the page due to security issues. there wasn't any discussion i could see online about this, so i opened a discussion on the pijul/nest project. very quickly, the lead dev replied that an upgrade in libpijul had lead to new security requirements, and that a fix would be incoming. lo and behold, within a couple of hours the problem was fixed. a small stumbling block, but as an early adopter, i consider the responsiveness of the developer here to be a big win, overall!
there is very preliminary support for pijul change tracking in vscode thanks to this wonderful project:

https://nest.pijul.com/GarettWithOneR/pijul-vscode

given how young pijul is, i will probably start to cross-publish some projects to both git repos and pijul repos, rather than diving all the way in. however, i've been considering self hosting a git server, rather than using gitlab. stay tuned to find out if my laziness wins out again!

EDIT

i had unknowingly pushed my pijul repo with only top level folders being tracked when this was first published. i was thinking in very `git` terms, hoping that just naming the top level parents during my `pijul add` would recursively add their children. alas, in pijul, unlike in git, folders are treated as valid objects and can exist by themselves without a .gitkeep file. thus, you have to explicitly name the path to each item you want to add to the repository. more of a "my bad" than anything else, but i figured i'd record the experience.

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