I'm surprised to read that, because that's how I've always used Git (and GitHub).
That's what I've understood to be good practice with Git, and it was liberating compared with what came before. One of the nicest things about Git is you can throw things in locally without worrying about how it looks, and make it presentable later.
Citation needed. You split the commit anyway you like, e.g. with the mouse or using cursor movements or by duplicating and deleting lines. Then you move it with the mouse or cursor or whatever and squash it into the other commit. Maybe some people never intend to do it, but then these probably also don't want to learn JJ. I guess this is more of a selection bias, that these that care about history editing are also more likely to learn another VCS on their own.
If you ever tried to have multiple WIP features merged in a Git working copy, I have a great news — with jujutsu complexity of the workflow increases linearly over the number of branches, if ever: it's almost trivial. Otherwise I very much encourage you to try — in and of itself the workflow is extremely effective, it's just Git makes it complex af.
1. Use "git rebase -i commitid^" (or branch point, tag etc), ideally with editor set to Magit, set that commit to "edit" (single key 'e' in Magit) and let the rebase continue, do "git reset -p HEAD^" and select the hunks you want to remove from the first commit, "git commit --amend", then "git commit -a" (add -c if useful, e.g. to copy author and date from the previous one). or to keep the author date), then "git rebase --continue" to finish.
2. Same, but use "git reset HEAD^" (add -N if useful), then "git add -p" to select the hunks you do want to include in the first commit.
Afterwards you can do the "git rebase -i" command again if you want to reorder those commits, move them relative to other commits, or move the split-out hunks into another existing commit (use the 'f' fixup or 's' squash rebase options).
After doing this a few times and learning what the commands actually do, it starts to feel comfortable. And of course, you don't have to run those exact commands or type them out, it's just a raw, git-level view. "git rebase -i" and "git add -p" / "git reset -p" are really useful for reorganising commit hunks.
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