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The less I use git directly, the more convinced I am that git is an absolutely awful interface to git repositories. I have been using jj for about two years now, and I literally cannot imagine going back to using the git cli. I have not used lazygit, but if you find it interesting, I say please go for it.

The please is because I am tired of fixing issues created by people being confused by git. Just use anything else than the git cli, it's probably better.

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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.

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

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.

With git I can stage lines right in my IDE, no messing around in shitty TUIs.

https://jj-vcs.github.io/jj/latest/config/

ctrl+f "tool"

Sold!

I'm trying jj. I've seen enough mentions now. I've never read anything about it.

I hope it's compatible with git.

The compatibility with git is the whole reason it's so popular (just run `jj git init --colocate` in your git repo). You can use it without forcing your collaborators to switch from git and you can use it will a git forges as well.

I don't think you need `--colocate` any more, and maybe you don't even need `git`? I tried `jj init` in a git repo the other day and it did create a colocated jj repo, as far as I could see.

Not sure on `jj init`, but yeah colocation is default as of I believe 0.34

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

This exact thing is quite literally one of jj’s flagship features: `jj split`.

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