Pijul

Spec sheet

Purpose

Pijul is a distributed version control system built on a patch-based theory.Read 11 Oct 2026 · pijul.org

Platforms

The download page recommends installation from source using Cargo and lists community-maintained Windows binaries.Read 11 Oct 2026 · pijul.org

Integrations

The Nest account manual says users can sign in with GitHub, Google, or Twitter.Read 11 Oct 2026 · pijul.org

Support

The Pijul community page lists Zulip for questions and Discourse for longer discussions.Read 11 Oct 2026 · pijul.org

License

Pijul is GPL version 2 or later and may be used for commercial projects.Read 11 Oct 2026 · pijul.org

Company

The Nest terms identify the company as Pijul OÜ, an Estonian company.Read 11 Oct 2026 · nest.pijul.com

Collaboration

Collaboration works by sending and receiving patches and applying them to repositories.Read 11 Oct 2026 · pijul.org

Commutation

Independent changes can be applied in any order without changing the result or version identifier.Read 11 Oct 2026 · pijul.org

Conflict resolution

A conflict resolution applies to the same two changes everywhere and does not recur.Read 11 Oct 2026 · pijul.org

Hosted repositories

Pijul Nest is described as Pijul’s repository hosting platform, with free hosting linked from the homepage.Read 11 Oct 2026 · pijul.org

Installation

The recommended installation method is from source using Cargo and the Rust toolchain.Read 11 Oct 2026 · pijul.org

Large files

Pijul handles large files, but the FAQ says it does not currently have a good diff algorithm for them.Read 11 Oct 2026 · pijul.org

Maintainers

The site credits Pierre-Étienne Meunier and Florent Becker.Read 11 Oct 2026 · pijul.org

Merge behavior

Pijul says it preserves line order in merges and surfaces conflicts when the order is unknown.Read 11 Oct 2026 · pijul.org

Merging

Pijul preserves line order in merges and surfaces conflicts when the order is unknown.Read 11 Oct 2026 · pijul.org

Monorepos

The FAQ says Pijul can retrieve a subset of patches and handle their dependencies for files consistent with a large remote repository.Read 11 Oct 2026 · pijul.org

Nest privacy

The Nest privacy policy says content uploaded to Nest accounts is stored on its servers while the account is active.Read 11 Oct 2026 · nest.pijul.com

Nest security

The Nest privacy policy says data is encrypted in transit and database backups are encrypted; most data is not encrypted while in the database.Read 11 Oct 2026 · nest.pijul.com

Partial clones

Pijul can clone a subset of a repository, and changes made in a partial clone can merge into the full repository.Read 11 Oct 2026 · pijul.org

Version identifiers

The FAQ says Pijul uses elliptic curve cryptography primitives to communicate a specific version number.Read 11 Oct 2026 · pijul.org

Windows support

The downloads page links to community-maintained Windows binaries.Read 11 Oct 2026 · pijul.org

Where Specifiction places it

• Version Control Software#53 of 627.1