$ git clone https://github.com/rtyley/small-test-repo.git
Cloning into 'small-test-repo'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 6, done.
remote: Total 6 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 6
Receiving objects: 100% (6/6), done.
$ pijul init smallpijul
Repository created at smallpijul
$ pijul git small-test-repo smallpijul
INFO Loading Git history…
INFO Importing commit 3974996807a9f596cf25ac3a714995c24bb97e2c: commit0

INFO Importing commit ce1e0703402e989bedf03d5df535401340f54b42: commit1

$ pijul list
EXAMPLE
# CORRECT, file in repo
$ ls -l
total 0
# WRONG, no working copy
$

Finnaly fixed. Make a git feature enabled by default.