[tcoff91]

Yeah but in jj every time you run ‘jj log’ you see all your anonymous branches and you can rebase all of them at once onto main in 1 command.

When I’m exploring a problem I end up with complex tree of many anonymous branches as I try different solutions to a problem and they all show up in my jj log and it’s so easy to refer to them by stable change ids. Often I’ll like part of a solution but not another part so I split a change into 2 commits and branch off the part I like and try something else for the other part. This way of working is not nearly as frictionless with git. A lot of times I do not even bother with editor undo unless it’s just a small amount of undoing because I have this workflow.

Git is to jj like asm is to C: you can do it all with git that you can do with jj but it’s all a lot easier in jj.

[1718627440]

I guess I never had complex trees from such an action, just a bunch of parallel branches, but I would say splitting and picking commits from different branches is not exactly hard with git either. Also you can also see them in git, but they won't have change ids of course.

[tcoff91]

I know how to do everything in git that I can do in jj but the thing is I would never bother doing most of these workflows with git because it’s way more of a pain in the ass than with jj. I work with version control in a totally different way now because how easy jj makes it to edit the graph.

Within a day of switching I was fully up to speed with jj and I never see myself going back. I use colocated repos so I can still use git tools in my editor for blaming and viewing file history.

Sure even rebasing a complex tree in git can be done by creating an octopus merge of all leaf nodes and rebasing with preserve merges but like that’s such a pain.