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> I can either stash my changes, which requires keeping a mental model of the stash queue (what if the review comments took a while and I started working on something else?) or a "wip commit", which you need to know, and you need to know how to reset and force push if you accidentally push it.

You do:

git commit -m "wip"

Then, if you wish to undo the commit then:

git reset HEAD

If instead you want to update your commit with additional changes:

git commit --amend

Seriously, why are you guys advocating for replacing a tool when the problems you're actually experiencing are due to your inabilility to learn the basics of it? I mean, is jj edit any better than git commit --amend ? Does git commit --amend require more cognitive load to understand?

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Thank you for proving my point.

What you really want to do is

git commit -anm "wip"

The -a is important because maybe you haven't staged the changes yet. The -n is important because otherwise your pre-commit hooks will run, and potentially modify your commit.

Also, what happens if some of the files were partially staged?

> What you really want to do is

No. I only need to run hit commit. The rest is just silly attempts to nitpick your way to faking complexity where there is none. You don't need to pass --all because you should know and tell what changes go into the commit. You don't need or care to skip precommit hooks, because either you don't have any or you have them and you want to run them. That's it.

Also, even your attempt to make a mountain out of a molehill ends up with a easier, smaller command line entry.

I have no horse in this race but it seems to me that you're not understanding their point. JJ has a different workflow that doesn't have a concept of a staging area, for one. The fact that you don't need to make a WIP commit may not be a game-changer for you, but it demonstrates that the abstractions it provides more accurately represent the "editing a previous commit" workflow. If that's not useful to you, fine. But I think it's valuable to have tools that 1) integrate into existing (git-based) systems with low friction and 2) provide abstractions more suitable for the work I tend to do on a daily basis.

The git command line is an awful thing that should have been fixed a long time ago. jj fixes it while staying compatible.

Your examples are laughable because most serious commands are way more complicated than that and again jj fixes that gracefully.

> The git command line is an awful thing that should have been fixed a long time ago.

Again, please point out your best example that you believe proves your point.

All I see so far is shit-talking Git with abstract unsubstantiated complains to then hand-wave an alternative as the savior.

Point exactly where Git fails and what value is brought to the picture by any other alternative. Clearly Git's backend is not a issue by the way jj reuses it. So what exactly are these problems that are worth solving?

Lol being angry that other people don't think git is easy to learn and that it's not perfect isn't going to convince them of anything other than you're an angry person.

https://ohshitgit.com/ has plenty of exmaples that you're free to disregard as being shit-talking. Meanwhile, the rest of us can admit that git has some rough edges, like how git checkout does a couple of different things, depending on the flags you pass it. That's not user friendly.

The OP knows how to do this but finds it unintuitive and inconvenient. You didn’t read their comment correctly and became verbally abusive.

> The OP knows how to do this but finds it unintuitive and inconvenient.

That's not a credible explanation. Amending a commit is somehow unintuitive and inconvenient but editing a commit is suddenly so much clearer and intuitive?

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