i've been trying out jj and one thing I struggle with is that my workspace feels very... messy? In Git often I have 20 semi-abandoned branches that I might come back to later in 6 months if I want to.
but in jj I don't know how to mark a change as "I don't need you to show this to me in `jj log` but I also don't want to abandon it"
so far i've been using jj on a project for short bursts if I need to rebase a lot and then I go back to Git
(please only suggestions of what you personally do)
Julia Evans
npub1ym…nlm9y
2026-05-22 13:26:04 UTC
Author Public Key
npub1ym9ddu2qh7rda8pxklq4gxw2kxhtm4cgvdvdy64z6agwy88nhuhqcnlm9ySeen on
wss://relay.ditto.pubPublished at
2026-05-22 13:26:04 UTCEvent JSON
{
"id": "7c00e532f15ee72569f8a9d0b2b8d794dddf48415604180ed766e5aee79cca7b",
"pubkey": "26cad6f140bf86de9c26b7c15419cab1aebdd7086358d26aa2d750e21cf3bf2e",
"created_at": 1779456364,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"proxy",
"https://social.jvns.ca/users/b0rk/statuses/116618452305189905",
"activitypub"
],
[
"client",
"Mostr",
"31990:6be38f8c63df7dbf84db7ec4a6e6fbbd8d19dca3b980efad18585c46f04b26f9:mostr",
"wss://relay.ditto.pub"
]
],
"content": "i've been trying out jj and one thing I struggle with is that my workspace feels very... messy? In Git often I have 20 semi-abandoned branches that I might come back to later in 6 months if I want to.\n\nbut in jj I don't know how to mark a change as \"I don't need you to show this to me in `jj log` but I also don't want to abandon it\"\n\nso far i've been using jj on a project for short bursts if I need to rebase a lot and then I go back to Git\n\n(please only suggestions of what you personally do)",
"sig": "9ea07cdbd698ef41519f0f1d49cf52ded7bfa0ce1efa034d5ff6c7260e4ebdc2a09b6193506ad1475b65a54d66cd7d50b760fffb3e9c9ae71760cbdc9aa81558"
}