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".
The `amend/unamend` aliases exist for smoothen onboarding for
Git/Mercurial users; I don't think we should recommend that users use
them, so I think it's fine if users override them as they
like. Therefore, I think they belong in the config.
There was a question on Discord about why using Difftastic wasn't working as the
diff tool. The root cause was putting `ui.diff.tool` in the wrong toml section,
when the `ui.` component actually refers to the `[ui]` section itself.
This reads kind of weirdly too because _immediately_ after this, the alternative
option of using the `merge-tools` section is suggested; except it uses `[merge-
tools.<name>]` which makes it immediately clear it's a section on its own.
This simply these two examples more consistent with each other, by using `[ui]`
instead of `ui.` to make it clear `ui.` is a top-level section.
Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>
This is something which should've been written down long ago. This is a follow-up upon
another question from Julia Evans in Discord.
Thank you again for asking such good questions.
I'm going to add string.len() method which will return a length in bytes. The
number of the UTF-8 code points is useless metrics, and strings here are often
ASCII bytes, so let's simply use byte indices in substr().
If the given index is not at a char boundary, it will be rounded. I considered
making it an error, but that would be annoying. I would want to see something
printed by author.name().substr() even if it contained latin characters.
I've extracted index normalization function which might be used by other string
methods. The remaining part of substr() is trivial, so inlined it.
Add an option to list tracked branches only
This option keeps most of the current `--all` printing logic, but:
- Omits local Git-tracking branches by default (can be extended to
support filtering by remote).
- Skip over the branch altogether if it doesn't contain tracked remotes
- Don't print the untracked_remote_refs at the end
Usage:
`jj branch list -t`
`jj branch list --tracked`
`jj branch list --tracked <branch name>`
Show our positive reviews to the world. It's also not completly serious, in a similar fashion to
Phabricator.
Co-Authored-By: Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>
This allows us to call alias function with the top-level object.
For convenience, all self.<method>()s are available as keywords. I don't think
we'll want to deprecate them. It would be tedious if we had to specify
-T'self.commit_id()' instead of -Tcommit_id.
The legacy parsing rules are turned into compatibility errors. The x:y rule
is temporarily enabled when parsing string patterns. It's weird, but we can't
isolate the parsing function because a string pattern may be defined in an
alias.
The main goal is to avoid having a symlink in our source tree. Currently, there
is no good way to work with the `jj` repo with `jj` on Windows. Currently `jj`
just crashes with symlinks. This is being worked on, see e.g. #2939, but it will
always depend on whether Developer Mode is enabled in Windows or whether
symlinks are materialized as text files with symlinks. Finally, MkDocs has
trouble following symlinks on Windows, so building docs wouldn't work there.
Another advantage is that, previously, we were lucky that MkDocs treats `insta`
header in `cli-reference@.md.snap` as a Markdown header and follows symlinks at
all. Now, we no longer depend on that.
i did the following things:
1. make some changes to the working copy
2. run `jj commit`
3. before i added a description, i decided i didn't want to commit yet. in git, the way to do this is to delete the contents of the editor; git sees that it is blank and aborts the commit. in jj, this doesn't work, because descriptions are allowed to be empty.
now i have the following jj state:
```
; jj log --stat
@ pokrsyvs github@jyn.dev 2024-02-06 21:48:17.000 -05:00 ddd6217f
│ (empty) (no description set)
│ 0 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
◉ lqqmzmku github@jyn.dev 2024-02-06 21:48:02.000 -05:00 HEAD@git b03bf3de
│ (no description set)
│ config/jj.toml | 2 +-
│ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
◉ xqkmwvwp github@jyn.dev 2024-02-06 21:47:08.000 -05:00 master b673f97b
```
i want to undo the most recent commit, `lqqmzmku`. i'm used to doing this with `git reset --soft HEAD~`, which makes the parent `xqkmwvwp` and leaves the change to `config/jj.toml` on disk while removing it from the git history; basically `lqqmzmku` would go back to being the working copy.
i found that `jj move` does what i want, but it took a lot of trawling the options, it wasn't obvious, and i couldn't find `git reset` mentioned in the docs.
Follows up 9702a425e5 "Allow negative numbers in the template grammar."
Since we've added parsing rules for operator expressions, it makes sense to
parse unary '-' as operator.
I enabled automerge for #2994, but forgot to actually *push* my changes
before resolving all the conversations, so GitHub insta-merged it.
This just addresses Ilya and Philip's final comments on #2994.
Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>
Someone on Discord asked this exact question, but these options apparently
weren't documented when they were added in the `0.7.0` release.
Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>
We want to avoid conflicts of interest (both real and
apparent). Better to document this before it happens.
By the way, Ilya and I both work for Google and we have approved lots
of each others' PRs, but we work in very different parts of the
company and I don't think any of the PRs have been specific to
Google's interests.
I'll probably add infix logical operators later, but the surround() function
is still useful because we don't have to repeat the condition:
if(x || y, "<" ++ separate(" ", x, y) ++ ">")
surround("<", ">", separate(" ", x, y))
It can't be used if we want to add placeholder text, though:
if(x || y, "<" ++ separate(" ", x, y) ++ ">", "(none)")
Closes#2924
Summary: As discussed in Discord, on GitHub, and elsewhere, this change
deprecates the use of `jj checkout` and suggests users use `jj new` exclusively
instead. The verb `checkout` is a relic of a bygone era the — days of RCS
file locking, before 3-way merge — and is not a good, fitting name for the
functionality it provides.
To further drive the bit home, by default, `jj checkout` (and `jj co`) is now
hidden. This will hopefully stop new users from running into it.
Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>
Change-Id: I7a1adfc9168fce1f25cf5d4c4c313304769e41a1
I couldn't come up with a Git analogue of `jj log`, but I think it's OK
leaving it as a TODO makes the point. Perhaps somebody can figure it
out.
Also, all the correspondences are not completely precise, so I didn't
emphasize it every single time.
I am using a very hacky approach, using `insta` to generate the markdown help.
This is based on a lucky coincidence that `insta` chose to use a header
format for snapshot files that MkDocs interprets as a Markdown header (and
ignores).
I considered several other approaches, but I couldn't resist the facts that:
- This doesn't require new developers to install any extra tools or run any
extra commands.
- There is no need for a new CI check.
- There is no need to compile `jj` in the "Make HTML docs" GitHub action,
which is currently very fast and cheap.
Downside: I'm not sure how well MkDocs will work on Windows, unless the
developer explicitly enables symbolic links (which IIUC is not trivial).
### Possible alternatives
My next favorite approaches (which we could switch to later) would be:
#### `xtask`
Set up a CI check and a [Cargo `xtask`] so that `cargo xtask cli-help-to-md`
essentially runs `cargo run -- util markdown-help > docs/cli-reference.md` from
the project root.
Every developer would have to know to run `cargo xtask cli-help-to-md` if
they change the help text.
Eventually, we could have `cargo xtask preflight` that runs `cargo +nightly
fmt; cargo xtask cli-help-to-md; cargo nextest run`, or `cargo insta`.
#### Only generate markdown for CLI help when building the website, don't track it in Git.
I think that having the file in the repo will be nice to preview changes to
docs, and it'll allow people to consult the file on GitHub or in their repo.
The (currently) very fast job of building the website would now require
installing Rust and building `jj`.
#### Same as the `xtask`, but use a shell script instead of an `xtask`
An `xtask` might seem like overkill, since it's Rust instead of a shell script.
However, I don't want this to be a shell script so that new contributors on
Windows can still easily run it ( since this will be necessary for the CI to
pass) without us having to support a batch file.
#### Cargo Alias
My first attempt was to set up a [cargo alias] to run this, but that doesn't
support redirection (so I had to change the `jj util` command to output to a
file) and, worse, is incapable of executing the command *in the project root*
regardless of where in the project the current directory is. Again, this seems
to be too inconvenient for a command that every new PR author would have to run
to pass CI.
Overall, this just seems a bit ugly. I did file
https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/13348, I'm not really sure that was
worthwhile, though.
**Aside:** For reference, the alias was:
```toml
# .cargo/config.toml
alias.gen-cli-reference = "run -p jj-cli -- util markdown-help docs/cli-reference.md"
```
### Non-alternatives
#### Clap's new feature
`clap` recently obtained a similarly-sounding feature in
https://github.com/clap-rs/clap/pull/5206. However, it only prints short help
for subcommands and can't be triggered by an option AFAICT, so it won't help us
too much.
[Cargo `xtask`]: https://github.com/matklad/cargo-xtask
[cargo alias]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/config.html#alias
This follows up on #2625 and updates all sections of `branches.md` to represent
the new default of `git.auto-local-branch=false`.
I realized that the paragraph we discussed for so long with @PhilipMetzger
actually repeats information that was already present a bit earlier in the file.
So, I removed most of it and moved the rest. Sorry I didn't notice this earler.
## The callout
Unfortunately, GitHub and MkDocs use different syntax for admonitions.
The callout looks like this in MkDocs:
https://github.com/martinvonz/jj/assets/4123047/45d79e7a-35db-492e-a227-004b7e3383c1
Use `poetry run -- mkdocs serve` to double-check.
Wol on lwn.net pointed out that our current description in the Git
Comparison doc for why there is no staging area can be interpreted as
saying that it's because it simplifies the CLI. It took me a while to
see that interpretation, but it makes sense to me now. This patch
tries to clarify that we have better tools than the staging area for
manipulating commits.
