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Jujutsu has many Mercurial-style features, one of them being revsets[1] - a set-notation-style DSL for selecting changesets (eg: which ones to log, etc). I have never found anything as powerful as revsets in Git.[2]

[1] https://jj-vcs.github.io/jj/latest/revsets/

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22520751/what-is-the-git...

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Yeah, I'm excited by the mercurial-style features as a mercurial user looking for something to transition to in a world where git has, sadly, become the standard. The revsets were definitely a joy to discover. The main thing I'm hoping they add is mercurial's diff format which, according to the jujutsu dev discussions, is considerably better than git's, and allows for cleaner "absorb" and, apparently, the clearness of mercurial's "hg fa --deleted".

And, well, it's silly, but I do like revnums. It's a compact way to compare changes over time, even if it's only useful for the local repo. Would be nice to have those too.

git-branchless implements revsets for git https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/wiki/Reference:-Re...

Git branchless is basically jj as a git subcommand - it's no coincidence that arxanas is also involved in jj's development!

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