alt Hacker NewsI tried jj a few times but it seems to be incompatible with my workflow.
I tend to have lots of uncommitted files and changes that i want to keep around in this state while I move around branches and while having multiple change lists (jetbrains implementation) that I will commit at some point in time.
This loose, flexible way of using git seems hard to do in jj.
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I'd been concerned about that initially, but setting up some gitgnores made this a complete non problem for me. .scratch/ for a lot, *.scratch, and ig-*.
It's also so easy to go back to the change latter and remove the files (after they're already copied elsewhere, or just operations log to go get) that it's really not a problem to just let stuff get in your commits.
In git there's such a strong incentive to do things right, to make clean commits. Imo one of the huge strengths of JJ is abandoning the obsession, and having far far far better tools to clean up after.
Some techniques for this are covered in: https://docs.jj-vcs.dev/latest/FAQ/#how-can-i-keep-my-scratc... and https://docs.jj-vcs.dev/latest/FAQ/#how-can-i-avoid-committi...