[yencabulator]

I have yet to see anything in jj that isn't also a git operation, they're just emphasized and exposed differently, and the gg GUI makes some things more intuitive (and also makes screwing up your history accidentally much easier).

[martinvonz]

In some sense, every jj command does more than any single git command because they implicitly amend the working-copy commit and rebase any descendants on top.

Another example is `jj rebase -d main`. It may look very similar to `git rebase main`, but it rebases a whole tree. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17315285/rebasing-a-tree... if you don't know what I mean.

Another example is `jj squash --from main..my-branch --into my-other-branch some/path`, which removes all the changes to `some/path` that happen in any commits in `main..my-branch` and squashes them into the tip commit of `my-other-branch`.

Does that help? I'm not sure I understood your comment correctly.

[yencabulator]

Oh I'm not saying jj commands are 1:1 to git. But it looks very much like a convenience layer on git, which is supported by the fact that it (can?) use(s) git as its storage backend. So people are essentially commenting "that jj thing looks perfectly doable in plain git too".

[martinvonz]

Yes, that's correct. It's also correct to say that you don't "need" the Git porcelain commands because it's perfectly doable using Git plumbing :)