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  • Telling people they have Stockholm syndrome is not a good way to convince them to change their behavior. Present the pros, be honest about the cons and let people make their own decisions. The jj workflow isn’t for everyone, and sometimes people’s git workflows are simple enough that there isn’t a benefit to learning a new tool. I like jj because I have to deal with complicated workflows for work and jj makes them much easier. At a different job it was much simpler and I wouldn’t have paid too much attention to jj.


  • Jj’s closest equivalent of branches are bookmarks, but they don’t auto update when you pull from a remote. I wish it was more like a git branch in that sense.

    However, editing past commits and reorganizing the tree is MUCH easier in jj. It feels like the commands are more in line with what I want to do rather than having to figure out the specific set of git commands to do what I want.

    I did find the “adding EVERYTHING” behavior to be annoying initially. My workaround was to create a local folder and add it to git ignore and push all those temp files there.

    YMMV but I’ve found it much easier to manage complex workflows with jj compared to git.