> Except there isn't any concept of a remote jj so you have to go through the painful steps of manually naming commits, pushing, pulling, then manually advancing the current working point to match.

All true. I ended up writing my own `jj push` and `jj pull` aliases that automated all this. They aren't simple aliases, but it worked. `jj push` for example "feels" very like `git push --force-with-lease`, except if you've stacked PR's it pushed all branches your on. It hasn't been a problem since.

I ended up wondering if they deliberately left the `jj pull` and `jj push` commands unimplemented just so you could write something custom.

> All files automatically committed is great until you accidentally put a secret in an unignored file in the repository folder.

    jj abandon COMMIT && jj git garbage-collect

> And adding to .gitignore fails if you ever want to wind back in history - if you go back before a file was added to .gitignore, then whoops now it isn't ignored

True, but how is this different to any other VCS?