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by sestep 305 days ago
I really like all the concepts and have only heard good things, so I tried it but wasn't able to figure out how to use it as effectively as I can use Git. Specifically, I use VS Code and do a lot of stuff with the IDE's builtin support for selecting specific parts of files to stage, and I was hoping to be able to do something similar for jj split. I asked the Jujutsu Kaizen devs on Discord and they said that isn't currently implemented. They did also mention that VisualJJ might have more what I want, but I'm reluctant to switch to JJ only to have to rely on a closed-source tool.

Are there others who've previously made heavy use of VS Code's builtin Git staging support and have successfully migrated to JJ? Anything I'm missing?
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stouset 305 days ago
As far as I know right now, no editors have great built-in support. As a heavy CLI user of (previously) git and now jj, selecting changes graphically is genuinely the one thing I’m envious of. The TUI that jj uses for interactive changes, `scm-record`, is fine but not great. It gets the job done but it could be so much more.

Getting really good diff and conflict editor support into VS Code, Zed, et al is going to be a huge win when it comes.

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gpm 305 days ago
> The TUI that jj uses for interactive changes, `scm-record`, is fine but not great.

The change selection TUI is one of the things that I'm happiest with in jj over the equivalent in git. It's a huge quality of life improvement over git's version.

Could it be even better? Probably... but compared to `git add -p`... it is already way better.

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sestep 305 days ago
Right, but the only time I've ever used `git add -p` was just to try it out years ago and be like "yep that sucks" and go back to using Magit (and then later VS Code). Those are my actual baselines.
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gpm 305 days ago
Totally fair, I stubbornly used `git add -p` anyways because the terminal is where I want that tool to live, but I entirely understand why other people have different habits here.
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nchmy 304 days ago
jjui is what you're looking for. Incredible TUI

https://github.com/idursun/jjui

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pancsta 304 days ago
Unfortunately its written in a simplistic TUI framework. Will never scale, pass.
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i_dursun 304 days ago
> Will never scale

won't scale to what exactly?

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stouset 304 days ago
I use jjui, but it still punts to scm-record for interactive hunk selection.
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amenhotep 304 days ago
JJ can be configured to use meld for what I think you mean, although I'm not quite au fait enough with version control to be sure. Not as frictionless as being able to do it in VSC but meld is nice and open source.
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