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Comment by danielhep

9 hours ago

I have tried jj several times but I feel like it slows me down significantly because I can’t grok the workflow. I like to do a bunch of changes then quickly select them in my editor and commit them, breaking them up into different commits to keep them organized. With jj’s lack of editor integration, I don’t know how to do this with the cli alone so I end up with bigger messier commits.

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WolfeReader  9 hours ago

You want "jj commit -i". You'll get an interface that lets you choose files, chunks, or lines to commit.

  • Zambyte  7 hours ago

    Or the shorthand: jj ci -i

    Or if you don't care to set a commit message just yet: jj split -i

    Or if you want to defer making sure each commit has the right content until later, just use jj new, and then later use jj squash and jj split to make the commits have sensible changes, and jj desc to set the descriptions.

tcoff91  6 hours ago

In JJ you make a bunch of changes and then you split the commit into multiple commits.