“Jujutsu (jj) is a version control system with a significantly simplified mental model and command-line interface compared to Git, without sacrificing expressibility or power (in fact, you could argue Jujutsu is more powerful). Stacked-diff workflows, seamless rebases, and ephemeral revisions are all natural with jj […]”
Part 2 of the series is out and is here.
I can see that - but that’s a “less frequent” task than me switching between branches. And the auto-commit-everything mixed with “you need to lookup a hash ID for each thing you’re working on” workflow is very frequent and obnoxious.
You don’t always need the hash id. @ is equivalent to HEAD, there’s also @- for HEAD~, @-- for HEAD~2, etc. with jj log the revset can also be a complex expression https://jj-vcs.github.io/jj/latest/revsets/. You can also create a bookmark to track a remote git branch that’s also updated when you fetch. But you have to move the bookmark when you make changes locally.