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# Core tenets

## Jujutsu's Core Tenets

Jujutsu's core tenets are:

- Separation of logic and UI: It should be easy to create new UIs (CLIs, GUIs, TUIs, servers) without having to duplicate logic.
- Easy-to-use APIs: It should be easy to create new commands. For example, each command should not have to worry about concurrency, working-copy state, and rebasing descendants of rewritten commits.
- User-friendliness: Making the working copy a commit is simpler. This is how the project started.
- The repo is the source of truth: Most commands should operate on the commit graph. The working copy is just one way of editing commits.
- Pluggable storage: Must be easy to integrate with different commit storage, virtual file systems and more.
- Git-interoperability: Git is everywhere. We need to have good interoperability to be adopted.
- All operations must be able to scale to Google-scale repos (lots of commits, lots of files): Laziness is important, must avoid accessing data unnecessarily.
- Having as few states as possible.
- Make it incredibly hard to lose work in your repo.
- Concurrent modifications to the repo should be safe.
- Allow concurrent edits on any commit, pending or finished.
- Make a "stacked diffs" workflow as easy as possible.