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
