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0 pointsthroawayonthe26d ago0 comments

well, you can do jj new <revision>, make your edit, and then do jj squash which will add the changes to the prev revision

i do this for example when i want to see a specific edit highlighted in my editor, it's a nice workflow i think

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Aeolun26d ago

This is exactly how someone explained Git to me 12 years ago or so, and I’ve finally wrapped my head around it. Not changing now.

mh-25d ago

If I'm understanding the thread correctly, I have a git alias to `git commit --amend --no-edit`, for exactly this workflow. When I'm hacking on something locally and want to just keep amending a commit. I only ever do this if it's HEAD though.

steveklabnik25d ago

Yes, one way to think about jj in a sort of low-level way is that every jj command does the equivalent of that, every time.

(You can also set up watchman and have that happen on every file change...)

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