Jujutsu's branches do not behave like Git branches, which is a major
hurdle for people adopting it from Git. They rather behave like
Mercurial's (hg) bookmarks.
We've had multiple discussions about it in the last ~1.5 years about this rename in the Discord,
where multiple people agreed that this _false_ familiarity does not help anyone. Initially we were
reluctant to do it but overtime, more and more users agreed that `bookmark` was a better for name
the current mechanism. This may be hard break for current `jj branch` users, but it will immensly
help Jujutsu's future, by defining it as our first own term. The `[experimental-moving-branches]`
config option is currently left alone, to force not another large config update for
users, since the last time this happened was when `jj log -T show` was removed, which immediately
resulted in breaking users and introduced soft deprecations.
This name change will also make it easier to introduce Topics (#3402) as _topological branches_
with a easier model.
This was mostly done via LSP, ripgrep and sed and a whole bunch of manual changes either from
me being lazy or thankfully pointed out by reviewers.
It's a pretty frequent request to have support for turning off
auto-tracking of new files and to have a command to manually track
them instead. This patch adds a `snapshot.auto-track` config to decide
which paths to auto-track (defaults to `all()`). It also adds a `jj
track` command to manually track the untracked paths.
This patch does not include displaying the untracked paths in `jj
status`, so for now this is probably only useful in colocated repos
where you can run `git status` to find the untracked files.
#323
It seems everyone agrees that `obslog` is not an intuitive name. There
was some discussion about alternatives in #3592 and on #4146. The
alternatives included `evolution`, `evolutionlog`, `evolog`,
`rewritelog`, `revlog`, and `changelog`. It seemed like
`evolution-log`/`evolog` was the most popular option. That also
matches the command's current help text ("Show how a change has
evolved over time").
The question "How do I avoid committing changes to files?" comes up a lot in
chat, and the solution is not obvious. It will be useful to have a description
with an example we can link to.
The wording of the similar question "How can I keep my scratch files in the
repository?" was tweaked to emphasize the difference between keeping untracked
files in the workspace and keeping changes tracked files out of published
history.
In the FAQ question "How do I integrate Jujutsu with Gerrit?", the link
to the glossary entry for "co-located repos" was pointing to the entry
for "change-id".
This question is mildly popular on Discord so it's finally time to have an answer.
We should do something better in the future but the current solution is good enough for today.
cc @thoughtpolice
