jj/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[Unreleased]

Breaking changes

• Revset function names can no longer start with a number.

Deprecations

New features

• Added diff options to ignore whitespace when comparing lines. Whitespace changes are still highlighted.

• New command jj simplify-parents will remove redundant parent edges.

Fixed bugs

[0.22.0] - 2024-10-02

Breaking changes

• Fixing #4239 means the ordering of some messages have changed.

• Invalid ui.graph.style configuration is now an error.

• The builtin template branch_list has been renamed to bookmark_list as part of the jj branch deprecation.

Deprecations

• jj branch has been deprecated in favor of jj bookmark.

  Rationale: Jujutsu's branches don't behave like Git branches, which a confused many newcomers, as they expected a similar behavior given the name. We've renamed them to "bookmarks" to match the actual behavior, as we think that describes them better, and they also behave similar to Mercurial's bookmarks.

• jj obslog is now called jj evolution-log/jj evolog. jj obslog remains as an alias.

• jj unsquash has been deprecated in favor of jj squash and jj diffedit --restore-descendants.

  Rationale: jj squash can be used in interactive mode to pull changes from one commit to another, including from a parent commit to a child commit. For fine-grained dependent diffs, such as when the parent and the child commits must successively modify the same location in a file, jj diffedit --restore-descendants can be used to set the parent commit to the desired content without altering the content of the child commit.

• The git.push-branch-prefix config has been deprecated in favor of git.push-bookmark-prefix.

• conflict() and file() revsets have been renamed to conflicts() and files() respectively. The old names are still around and will be removed in a future release.

New features

• The new config option snapshot.auto-track lets you automatically track only the specified paths (all paths by default). Use the new jj file track command to manually tracks path that were not automatically tracked. There is no way to list untracked files yet. Use git status in a colocated workspace as a workaround. #323

• jj fix now allows fixing unchanged files with the --include-unchanged-files flag. This can be used to more easily introduce automatic formatting changes in a new commit separate from other changes.

• jj workspace add now accepts a --sparse-patterns=<MODE> option, which allows control of the sparse patterns for a newly created workspace: copy (inherit from parent; default), full (full working copy), or empty (the empty working copy).

• New command jj workspace rename that can rename the current workspace.

• jj op log gained an option to include operation diffs.

• jj git clone now accepts a --remote <REMOTE NAME> option, which allows to set a name for the remote instead of using the default origin.

• jj op undo now reports information on the operation that has been undone.

• jj squash: the -k flag can be used as a shorthand for --keep-emptied.

• CommitId / ChangeId template types now support .normal_hex().

• jj commit and jj describe now accept --author option allowing to quickly change author of given commit.

• jj diffedit, jj abandon, and jj restore now accept a --restore-descendants flag. When used, descendants of the edited or deleted commits will keep their original content.

• jj git fetch -b <remote-git-branch-name> will now warn if the branch(es) can not be found in any of the specified/configured remotes.

• jj split now lets the user select all changes in interactive mode. This may be used to keeping all changes into the first commit while keeping the current commit description for the second commit (the newly created empty one).

• Author and committer names are now yellow by default.

Fixed bugs

• Update working copy before reporting changes. This prevents errors during reporting from leaving the working copy in a stale state.

• Fixed panic when parsing invalid conflict markers of a particular form. (#2611)

• Editing a hidden commit now makes it visible.

• The present() revset now suppresses missing working copy error. For example, present(@) evaluates to none() if the current workspace has no working-copy commit.

Contributors

Thanks to the people who made this release happen!

• Austin Seipp (@thoughtpolice)
• Danny Hooper (@hooper)
• Emily Shaffer (@nasamuffin)
• Essien Ita Essien (@essiene)
• Ethan Brierley (@eopb)
• Ilya Grigoriev (@ilyagr)
• Kevin Liao (@kevincliao)
• Lukas Wirth (@Veykril)
• Martin von Zweigbergk (@martinvonz)
• Mateusz Mikuła (@mati865)
• mlcui (@mlcui-corp)
• Philip Metzger (@PhilipMetzger)
• Samuel Tardieu (@samueltardieu)
• Stephen Jennings (@jennings)
• Tyler Goffinet (@qubitz)
• Vamsi Avula (@avamsi)
• Yuya Nishihara (@yuja)

[0.21.0] - 2024-09-04

Breaking changes

• next/prev will no longer infer when to go into edit mode when moving from commit to commit. It now either follows the flags --edit|--no-edit or it gets the mode from ui.movement.edit.

Deprecations

• jj untrack has been renamed to jj file untrack.

New features

• Add new boolean config knob, ui.movement.edit for controlling the behaviour of prev/next. The flag turns edit mode on and off permanently when set respectively to true or false.

• All diff formats except --name-only now include information about copies and moves. So do external diff tools in file-by-file mode. jj status also includes information about copies and moves.

• Color-words diff has gained an option to display complex changes as separate lines. It's enabled by default. To restore the old behavior, set diff.color-words.max-inline-alternation = -1.

• A tilde (~) at the start of the path will now be expanded to the user's home directory when configuring a signing.key for SSH commit signing.

• When reconfiguring the author, warn that the working copy won't be updated

Fixed bugs

• Release binaries for Intel Macs have been restored. They were previously broken due to using a sunset version of GitHub's macOS runners (but nobody had previously complained.)

Contributors

Thanks to the people who made this release happen!

• Aaron Bull Schaefer (@elasticdog)
• Austin Seipp (@thoughtpolice)
• Benjamin Tan (@bnjmnt4n)
• Raniz Daniel Raneland (@Raniz85)
• Daniel Ploch (@torquestomp)
• Essien Ita Essien (@essiene)
• Ilya Grigoriev (@ilyagr)
• Kaleb Pace (@kalebpace)
• Marie (@NyCodeGHG)
• Marijan Smetko (@InCogNiTo124)
• Martin von Zweigbergk (@martinvonz)
• Matt Kulukundis (@fowles)
• Scott Taylor (@scott2000)
• Stephen Jennings (@jennings)
• tingerrr (@tingerrr)
• Yuya Nishihara (@yuja)

[0.20.0] - 2024-08-07

Note to packagers

• jj now links libgit2 statically by default. To use dynamic linking, you need to set the environment variable LIBGIT2_NO_VENDOR=1 while compiling. (#4163)

Breaking changes

• jj rebase --skip-empty has been renamed to jj rebase --skip-emptied

• jj backout --revision has been renamed to jj backout --revisions. The short alias -r is still supported.

• The default immutable_heads() set now includes untracked_remote_branches() with the assumption that untracked branches aren't managed by you. Therefore, untracked branches are no longer displayed in jj log by default.

• Updated defaults for graph node symbol templates templates.log_node and templates.op_log_node.

• The "fileset" language is now enabled by default. It can still be disable by setting ui.allow-filesets=false.

• On jj git fetch/import, commits referred to by HEAD@git are no longer preserved. If a checked-out named branch gets deleted locally or remotely, the corresponding commits will be abandoned.

• jj --at-op=@ no longer merges concurrent operations if explicitly specified.

• jj obslog -p no longer shows diffs at non-partial squash operations. Previously, it showed the same diffs as the second predecessor.

Deprecations

• The original configuration syntax for jj fix is now deprecated in favor of one that allows defining multiple tools that can affect different filesets. These can be used in combination for now. See jj help fix for details.

New features

• Define immutable_heads() revset alias in terms of a new builtin_immutable_heads(). This enables users to redefine immutable_heads() as they wish, but still have builtin_immutable_heads() which should not be redefined.

• External diff tools can now be configured to invoke the tool on each file individually instead of being passed a directory by setting merge-tools.$TOOL.diff-invocation-mode="file-by-file" in config.toml.

• In git diffs, word-level hunks are now highlighted with underline. See diff colors and styles for customization.

• New .diff().<format>() commit template methods are added. They can be used in order to show diffs conditionally. For example, if(current_working_copy, diff.summary()).

• jj git clone and jj git init with an existing git repository adds the default branch of the remote as repository settings for revset-aliases."trunk()".`

• jj workspace forget now abandons the workspace's working-copy commit if it was empty.

• jj backout now includes the backed out commit's subject in the new commit message.

• jj backout can now back out multiple commits at once.

• jj git clone some/nested/path now creates the full directory tree for nested destination paths if they don't exist.

• String patterns now support case‐insensitive matching by suffixing any pattern kind with -i. mine() uses case‐insensitive matching on your email address unconditionally. Only ASCII case folding is currently implemented, but this will likely change in the future.

• String patterns now support regex:"pattern".

• New tracked_remote_branches() and untracked_remote_branches() revset functions can be used to select tracked/untracked remote branches.

• The file() revset function now accepts fileset as argument.

• New diff_contains() revset function can be used to search diffs.

• New command jj operation diff that can compare changes made between two operations.

• New command jj operation show that can show the changes made in a single operation.

• New config setting git.private-commits to prevent commits from being pushed.

• The default commit description template can now be configured by templates.draft_commit_description.

• jj fix can now be configured to run different tools on different filesets. This simplifies the use case of configuring code formatters for specific file types. See jj help fix for details.

• Added revset functions author_date and committer_date.

• jj describe can now update the description of multiple commits.

Fixed bugs

• jj status will show different messages in a conflicted tree, depending on the state of the working commit. In particular, if a child commit fixes a conflict in the parent, this will be reflected in the hint provided by jj status

• jj diff --git no longer shows the contents of binary files.

• Windows binaries no longer require vcruntime140.dll to be installed (normally through Visual Studio.)

• On quit, the builtin pager no longer waits for all outputs to be discarded.

• jj branch rename no longer shows a warning in colocated repos.

Contributors

Thanks to the people who made this release happen!

• Anton Älgmyr (@algmyr)
• Austin Seipp (@thoughtpolice)
• Benjamin Tan (@bnjmnt4n)
• Daniel Ploch (@torquestomp)
• Danny Hooper (@hooper)
• Emily (@emilazy)
• Essien Ita Essien (@essiene)
• Fedor Sheremetyev (@sheremetyev)
• Ilya Grigoriev (@ilyagr)
• Jonathan Tan (@jonathantanmy)
• Julien Vincent (@julienvincent)
• Martin von Zweigbergk (@martinvonz)
• Matt Kulukundis (@fowles)
• Matt Stark (@matts1)
• mlcui (@mlcui-corp)
• Philip Metzger (@PhilipMetzger)
• Scott Taylor (@scott2000)
• Skyler Grey (@Minion3665)
• Stephen Jennings (@jennings)
• Tim Janik (@tim-janik)
• Vincent Ging Ho Yim (@cenviity)
• Vladimír Čunát (@vcunat)
• Vladimir (@0xdeafbeef)
• Yuya Nishihara (@yuja)

[0.19.0] - 2024-07-03

Breaking changes

• In revset aliases, top-level kind:pattern expression is now parsed as modifier. Surround with parentheses if it should be parsed as string/file pattern.

• Dropped support for automatic upgrade of repo formats used by versions before 0.12.0.

• jj fix now defaults to the broader revset -s reachable(@, mutable()) instead of -s @.

• Dropped support for deprecated jj branch delete/forget --glob option.

• jj branch set now creates new branch if it doesn't exist. Use jj branch move to ensure that the target branch already exists. #3584

Deprecations

• Replacing -l shorthand for --limit with -n in jj log, jj op log and jj obslog.

• jj split --siblings is deprecated in favor of jj split --parallel (to match jj parallelize).

• A new jj file subcommand now replaces several existing uncategorized commands, which are deprecated.

  • jj file show replaces jj cat.
  • jj file chmod replaces jj chmod.
  • jj file list replaces jj files.

New features

• Support background filesystem monitoring via watchman triggers enabled with the core.watchman.register_snapshot_trigger = true config.

• Show paths to config files when configuration errors occur.

• jj fix now supports configuring the default revset for -s using the revsets.fix config.

• The descendants() revset function now accepts an optional depth argument; like the ancestors() depth argument, it limits the depth of the set.

• Revset/template aliases now support function overloading. #2966

• Conflicted files are individually simplified before being materialized.

• The jj file subcommand now contains several existing file utilities.

  • jj file show, replacing jj cat.
  • jj file chmod replacing jj chmod.
  • jj file list replacing jj files.

• New command jj branch move let you update branches by name pattern or source revision.

• New diff option jj diff --name-only allows for easier shell scripting.

• In color-words diffs, hunks are now highlighted with underline. See diff colors and styles for customization.

• jj git push -c <arg> can now accept revsets that resolve to multiple revisions. This means that jj git push -c xyz -c abc is now equivalent to jj git push -c 'all:(xyz | abc)'.

• jj prev and jj next have gained a --conflict flag which moves you to the next conflict in a child commit.

• New command jj git remote set-url that sets the url of a git remote.

• Author timestamp is now reset when rewriting discardable commits (empty commits with no description) if authored by the current user. #2000

• jj commit now accepts --reset-author option to match jj describe.

• jj squash now accepts a --keep-emptied option to keep the source commit.

Fixed bugs

• jj git push now ignores immutable commits when checking whether a to-be-pushed commit has conflicts, or has no description / committer / author set. #3029

• jj will look for divergent changes outside the short prefix set even if it finds the change id inside the short prefix set. #2476

Contributors

Thanks to the people who made this release happen!

• Austin Seipp (@thoughtpolice)
• Benjamin Tan (@bnjmnt4n)
• Daniel Ploch (@torquestomp)
• Danny Hooper (@hooper)
• Ilya Grigoriev (@ilyagr)
• James Sully (@sullyj3)
• Jonathan Tan (@jonathantanmy)
• Kyle J Strand (@BatmanAoD)
• Manuel Caldeira (@KiitoX)
• Martin von Zweigbergk (@martinvonz)
• Matt Kulukundis (@fowles)
• Matt Stark (@matts1)
• mlcui (@mlcui-corp)
• Philip Metzger (@PhilipMetzger)
• Scott Taylor (@scott2000)
• Simon Wollwage (@Kintaro)
• Tal Pressman (@tp-woven)
• Yuya Nishihara (@yuja)

[0.18.0] - 2024-06-05

Breaking changes

• Dropped support for ui.default-revset config (replaced by revsets.log in 0.8.0).

• The commit_summary_no_branches template is superseded by templates.branch_list.

• jj split will now refuse to split an empty commit.

• jj config list now uses multi-line strings and single-quoted strings in the output when appropriate.

• jj config get/list/set now parse name argument as TOML key. Quote meta characters as needed. Example: jj config get "revset-aliases.'trunk()'"

• When updating the working copy away from an empty and undescribed commit, it is now abandoned even if it is a merge commit.

• If a new working-copy commit is created because the old one was abandoned, and the old commit was merge, then the new commit will now also be. #2859

• jj new's --insert-before/--insert-after options must now be set for each commit the new commit will be inserted before/after. Previously, those options were global flags and specifying them once would insert the new commit before/ after all the specified commits.

Deprecations

• Attempting to alias a built-in command now gives a warning, rather than being silently ignored.

New features

• jj branch list/tag list now accept -T/--template option. The tag list prints commit summary along with the tag name by default.

• Conflict markers now include an explanation of what each part of the conflict represents.

• ui.color = "debug" prints active labels alongside the regular colored output.

• jj branch track now show conflicts if there are some.

• A new revset reachable(srcs, domain) will return all commits that are reachable from srcs within domain.

• There are now prebuilt binaries for aarch64-linux-unknown-musl. Note, these are cross compiled and currently untested. We plan on providing fully tested builds later once our CI system allows it.

• Added new revsets mutable() and immutable().

• Upgraded scm-record from v0.2.0 to v0.3.0. See release notes at https://github.com/arxanas/scm-record/releases/tag/v0.3.0

• New command jj fix that can be configured to update commits by running code formatters (or similar tools) on changed files. The configuration schema and flags are minimal for now, with a number of improvements planned (for example, #3800 and #3801).

• jj new's --insert-before and --insert-after options can now be used simultaneously.

• jj git push now can push commits with empty descriptions with the --allow-empty-description flag

Fixed bugs

• Previously, jj git push only made sure that the branch is in the expected location on the remote server when pushing a branch forward (as opposed to sideways or backwards). Now, jj git push makes a safety check in all cases and fails whenever jj git fetch would have introduced a conflict.

  In other words, previously branches that moved sideways or backward were pushed similarly to Git's git push --force; now they have protections similar to git push --force-with-lease (though not identical to it, to match the behavior of jj git fetch). Note also that because of the way jj git fetch works, jj does not suffer from the same problems as Git's git push --force-with-lease in situations when git fetch is run in the background.

• When the working copy commit becomes immutable, a new one is automatically created on top of it to avoid letting the user edit the immutable one.

• jj config list now properly escapes TOML keys (#1322).

• Files with conflicts are now checked out as executable if all sides of the conflict are executable.

• The progress bar (visible when using e.g. jj git clone) clears the remainder of the cursor row after drawing rather than clearing the entire row before drawing, eliminating the "flicker" effect seen on some terminals.

Contributors

Thanks to the people who made this release happen!

• Alexander Potashev (@aspotashev)
• Austin Seipp (@thoughtpolice)
• Benjamin Tan (@bnjmnt4n)
• Charles Crete (@Cretezy)
• Daniel Ploch (@torquestomp)
• Danny Hooper (@hooper)
• Eidolon (@HybridEidolon)
• Glen Choo (@chooglen)
• Gregory Anders (@gpanders)
• Ilya Grigoriev (@ilyagr)
• jyn (@jyn514)
• Martin von Zweigbergk (@martinvonz)
• Matt Stark (@matts1)
• Matthew Davidson (@KingMob)
• Michael Gattozzi (@mgattozzi)
• mlcui (@mlcui-corp)
• Philip Metzger (@PhilipMetzger)
• Remo Senekowitsch (@senekor)
• Thomas Castiglione (@gulbanana)
• Théo Daron (@tdaron)
• tinger (@tingerrr)
• Waleed Khan (@arxanas)
• Yuya Nishihara (@yuja)

[0.17.1] - 2024-05-07

Fixed bugs

• jj status no longer scans through the entire history to look for ancestors with conflicts.

[0.17.0] - 2024-05-01

Breaking changes

• The default template aliases were replaced as follows:

  • builtin_op_log_root(op_id: OperationId) -> format_root_operation(root: Operation)
  • builtin_log_root(change_id: ChangeId, commit_id: CommitId) -> format_root_commit(root: Commit)
  • builtin_change_id_with_hidden_and_divergent_info -> format_short_change_id_with_hidden_and_divergent_info(commit: Commit)

• The --revision option of jj rebase is renamed to --revisions. The short alias -r is still supported.

New features

• The list of conflicted paths is printed whenever the working copy changes. This can be disabled with the --quiet option.

• Commit objects in templates now have a mine() -> Boolean method analog to the same function in revsets. It evaluates to true if the email of the commit author matches the current user.email.

• Commit objects in templates now have a contained_in(revset: String) -> Boolean method.

• Operation objects in templates now have a snapshot() -> Boolean method that evaluates to true if the operation was a snapshot created by a non-mutating command (e.g. jj log).

• Revsets and templates now support single-quoted raw string literals.

• A new config option ui.always-allow-large-revsets has been added to allow large revsets expressions in some commands, without the all: prefix.

• A new config option ui.allow-filesets has been added to enable "fileset" expressions. Note that filesets are currently experimental, but will be enabled by default in a future release.

• A new global flag --ignore-immutable lets you rewrite immutable commits.

• New command jj parallelize that rebases a set of revisions into siblings.

• jj status now supports filtering by paths. For example, jj status . will only list changed files that are descendants of the current directory.

• jj prev and jj next now work when the working copy revision is a merge.

• jj squash now accepts a --use-destination-message/-u option that uses the description of the destination for the new squashed revision and discards the descriptions of the source revisions.

• You can check whether Watchman fsmonitor is enabled or installed with the new jj debug watchman status command.

• jj rebase now accepts revsets resolving to multiple revisions with the --revisions/-r option.

• jj rebase -r now accepts --insert-after and --insert-before options to customize the location of the rebased revisions.

Fixed bugs

• Revsets now support \-escapes in string literal.

• The builtin diff editor now allows empty files to be selected during jj split.

• Fixed a bug with jj split introduced in 0.16.0 that caused it to incorrectly rebase the children of the revision being split if they had other parents (i.e. if the child was a merge).

• The snapshot.max-new-file-size option can now handle raw integer literals, interpreted as a number of bytes, where previously it could only handle string literals. This means that snapshot.max-new-file-size="1" and snapshot.max-new-file-size=1 are now equivalent.

• jj squash <path> is now a no-op if the path argument didn't match any paths (it used to create new commits with bumped timestamp). #3334

Contributors

Thanks to the people who made this release happen!

• Anton Älgmyr (@algmyr)
• Anton Bulakh (@necauqua)
• Austin Seipp (@thoughtpolice)
• Benjamin Tan (@bnjmnt4n)
• Cretezy (@Cretezy)
• Daniel Ploch (@torquestomp)
• Evan Mesterhazy (@emesterhazy)
• Ilya Grigoriev (@ilyagr)
• Martin von Zweigbergk (@martinvonz)
• Noah Mayr (@noahmayr)
• Jeremy O'Brien (@neutralinsomniac)
• Jonathan Lorimer (@JonathanLorimer)
• Philip Metzger (@PhilipMetzger)
• Poliorcetics (@poliorcetics)
• Rowan Walsh (@rowan-walsh)
• Scott Olson (@solson)
• Théo Daron (@tdaron)
• Yuya Nishihara (@yuja)

[0.16.0] - 2024-04-03

Deprecations

• jj move was deprecated in favor of jj squash.

Breaking changes

• The git_head template keyword now returns an optional value instead of a list of 0 or 1 element.

• The jj sparse set --edit/--reset flags were split up into jj sparse edit/reset subcommands respectively.

• The jj sparse subcommands now parse and print patterns as workspace-relative paths.

• The jj log command no longer uses the default revset when a path is specified.

New features

• Config now supports rgb hex colors (in the form #rrggbb) wherever existing color names are supported.

• ui.default-command now accepts multiple string arguments, for more complex default jj commands.

• Graph node symbols are now configurable via templates

  • templates.log_node
  • templates.op_log_node

• jj log now includes synthetic nodes in the graph where some revisions were elided.

• jj squash now accepts --from and --into (also aliased as --to) if -r is not specified. It can now be used for all use cases where jj move could previously be used. The --from argument accepts a revset that resolves to more than one revision.

• Commit templates now support immutable keyword.

• New template function coalesce(content, ..) is added.

• Timestamps are now shown in local timezone and without milliseconds and timezone offset by default.

• jj git push now prints messages from the remote.

• jj branch list now supports a --conflicted/-c option to show only conflicted branches.

• jj duplicate and jj abandon can now take more than a single -r argument, for consistency with other commands.

• jj branch list now allows combining -r REVISIONS/NAMES and -a options.

• --all is now named --all-remotes for jj branch list

• There is a new global --quiet flag to silence commands' non-primary output.

• jj split now supports a --siblings/-s option that splits the target revision into siblings with the same parents and children.

• New function working_copies() for revsets to show the working copy commits of all workspaces.

Fixed bugs

None.

Contributors

Thanks to the people who made this release happen!

• Aleksey Kuznetsov (@zummenix)
• Anton Älgmyr (@algmyr)
• Austin Seipp (@thoughtpolice)
• Benjamin Tan (@bnjmnt4n)
• Chris Krycho (@chriskrycho)
• Christoph Koehler (@ckoehler)
• Daniel Ploch (@torquestomp)
• Evan Mesterhazy (@emesterhazy)
• Ilya Grigoriev (@ilyagr)
• Khionu Sybiern (@khionu)
• Martin von Zweigbergk (@martinvonz)
• Matthew Davidson (@KingMob)
• mrstanwell (@mrstanwell)
• Noah Mayr (@noahmayr)
• Patric Stout (@TrueBrain)
• Poliorcetics (@poliorcetics)
• Simon Wollwage (@Kintaro)
• Steve Klabnik (@steveklabnik)
• Tom Ward (@tomafro)
• TrashCan (@TrashCan69420)
• Yuya Nishihara (@yuja)

[0.15.1] - 2024-03-06

No code changes (fixing Rust Cargo.toml stuff).

[0.15.0] - 2024-03-06

Breaking changes

• The minimum supported Rust version (MSRV) is now 1.76.0.

• The on-disk index format changed. New index files will be created automatically, but it can fail if the repository is co-located and predates Git GC issues #815. If reindexing failed, you'll need to clean up corrupted operation history by jj op abandon ..<bad operation ID>.

• Dropped support for the "legacy" graph-drawing style. Use "ascii" for a very similar result.

• The default log output no longer lists all tagged heads. Set revsets.log = "@ | ancestors(immutable_heads().., 2) | heads(immutable_heads())" to restore the old behavior.

• Dropped support for the deprecated : revset operator. Use :: instead.

• jj rebase --skip-empty no longer abandons commits that were already empty before the rebase.

New features

• Partial support for commit signing. Currently you can configure jj to "keep" commit signatures by making new ones for rewritten commits, and to sign new commits when they are created.

  This comes with out-of-the-box support for the following backends:

  • GnuPG
  • SSH

  Signature verification and an explicit sign command will hopefully come soon.

• Templates now support logical operators: ||, &&, !

• Templates now support the self keyword, which is the current commit in jj log/obslog templates.

• jj show now accepts -T/--template option to render its output using template

• jj config list now accepts -T/--template option.

• jj git fetch now accepts -b as a shorthand for --branch, making it more consistent with other commands that accept a branch

• In the templating language, Timestamps now have a .local() method for converting to the local timezone.

• jj next/prev now infer --edit when you're already editing a non-head commit (a commit with children).

• A new built-in pager named :builtin is available on all platforms, implemented with minus

• Set config ui.log-synthetic-elided-nodes = true to make jj log include synthetic nodes in the graph where some revisions were elided (#1252, #2971). This may become the default depending on feedback.

• When creating a new workspace, the sparse patterns are now copied over from the current workspace.

• jj git init --colocate can now import an existing Git repository. This is equivalent to jj git init --git-repo=..

• jj git fetch now automatically prints new remote branches and tags by default.

• --verbose/-v is now --debug (no short option since it's not intended to be used often)

• jj move --from/--to can now be abbreviated to jj move -f/-t

• jj commit/diffedit/move/resolve/split/squash/unsquash now accept --tool=<NAME> option to override the default. #2575

• Added completions for Nushell to jj util completion

• jj branch list now supports a --tracked/-t option which can be used to show tracked branches only. Omits local Git-tracking branches by default.

• Commands producing diffs now accept a --context flag for the number of lines of context to show.

• jj commands with the -T/--template option now provide a hint containing defined template names when no argument is given, assisting the user in making a selection.

Fixed bugs

• On Windows, symlinks in the repo are now supported when Developer Mode is enabled. When symlink support is unavailable, they will be materialized as regular files in the working copy (instead of resulting in a crash). #2

• On Windows, the :builtin pager is now used by default, rather than being disabled entirely.

• Auto-rebase now preserves the shape of history even for merge commits where one parent is an ancestor of another. #2600

Contributors

Thanks to the people who made this release happen!

• Aleksey Kuznetsov (@zummenix)
• Anton Bulakh (@necauqua)
• Anton Älgmyr (@algmyr)
• Austin Seipp (@thoughtpolice)
• Benjamin Brittain (@benbrittain)
• Benjamin Tan (@bnjmnt4n)
• Daehyeok Mun (@daehyeok)
• Daniel Ploch (@torquestomp)
• Evan Mesterhazy (@emesterhazy)
• gulbanana (@gulbanana)
• Ilya Grigoriev (@ilyagr)
• Jonathan Tan (@jonathantanmy)
• Julien Vincent (@julienvincent)
• jyn (@jyn514)
• Martin von Zweigbergk (@martinvonz)
• Paulo Coelho (@prscoelho)
• Philip Metzger (@PhilipMetzger)
• Poliorcetics (@poliorcetics)
• Stephen Jennings (@jennings)
• Vladimir (@0xdeafbeef)
• Yuya Nishihara (@yuja)

[0.14.0] - 2024-02-07

Deprecations

• jj checkout and jj merge are both deprecated; use jj new instead to replace both of these commands in all instances.

  Rationale: jj checkout and jj merge both implement identical functionality, which is a subset of jj new. checkout creates a new working copy commit on top of a single specified revision, i.e. with one parent. merge creates a new working copy commit on top of at least two specified revisions, i.e. with two or more parents.

  The only difference between these commands and jj new, which also creates a new working copy commit, is that new can create a working copy commit on top of any arbitrary number of revisions, so it can handle both the previous cases at once. The only actual difference between these three commands is the command syntax and their name. These names were chosen to be familiar to users of other version control systems, but we instead encourage all users to adopt jj new instead; it is more general and easier to remember than both of these.

  jj checkout and jj merge will no longer be shown as part of jj help, but will still function for now, emitting a warning about their deprecation.

  Deadline: jj checkout and jj merge will be deleted and are expected become a hard error later in 2024.

• jj init --git and jj init --git-repo are now deprecated and will be removed in the near future.

  Use jj git init instead.

Breaking changes

• (Minor) Diff summaries (e.g. jj diff -s) now use D for "Deleted" instead of R for "Removed". @joyously pointed out that R could also mean "Renamed".

• jj util completion now takes the shell as a positional argument, not a flag. the previous behavior is deprecated, but supported for now. it will be removed in the future.

• jj rebase now preserves the shape of history even for merge commits where one parent is an ancestor of another. You can follow the jj rebase by jj rebase -s <merge commit> -d <single parent> if you want to linearize the history.

New features

• jj util completion now supports powershell and elvish.

• Official binaries for macOS running on Apple Silicon (aarch64-apple-darwin) are now available, alongside the existing macOS x86 binaries.

• New jj op abandon command is added to clean up the operation history. Git refs and commit objects can be further compacted by jj util gc.

• jj util gc now removes unreachable operation, view, and Git objects.

• jj branch rename will now warn if the renamed branch has a remote branch, since those will have to be manually renamed outside of jj.

• jj git push gained a --tracked option, to push all the tracked branches.

• There's now a virtual root operation, similar to the virtual root commit. It appears at the end of jj op log.

• jj config list gained a --include-overridden option to allow printing overridden config values.

• jj config list now accepts --user or --repo option to specify config origin.

• New jj config path command to print the config file path without launching an editor.

• jj tag list command prints imported git tags.

• jj next and jj prev now prompt in the event of the next/previous commit being ambiguous, instead of failing outright.

• jj resolve now displays the file being resolved.

• jj workspace root was aliased to jj root, for ease of discoverability

• jj diff no longer shows the contents of binary files.

• jj git now has an init command that initializes a git backed repo.

• New template function surround(prefix, suffix, content) is added.

Fixed bugs

• Fixed snapshots of symlinks in gitignore-d directory. #2878

• Fixed data loss in dirty working copy when checked-out branch is rebased or abandoned by Git. #2876

Contributors

Thanks to the people who made this release happen!

• Austin Seipp (@thoughtpolice)
• Benjamin Brittain (@benbrittain)
• Chris Krycho (@chriskrycho)
• Daehyeok Mun (@daehyeok)
• Daniel Ploch (@torquestomp)
• Essien Ita Essien (@essiene)
• Ikko Eltociear Ashimine (@eltociear)
• Ilya Grigoriev (@ilyagr)
• Jonathan Tan (@jonathantanmy)
• jyn (@jyn514)
• Martin von Zweigbergk (@martinvonz)
• Matt Stark (@matts1)
• Michael Pratt (prattmic)
• Philip Metzger (@PhilipMetzger)
• Stephen Jennings (@jennings)
• Valentin Gatien-Baron (@v-gb)
• vwkd (@vwkd)
• Yuya Nishihara (@yuja)

[0.13.0] - 2024-01-03

Breaking changes

• jj git fetch no longer imports new remote branches as local branches. Set git.auto-local-branch = true to restore the old behavior.

New features

• Information about new and resolved conflicts is now printed by every command.

• jj branch has gained a new rename subcommand that allows changing a branch name atomically. jj branch help rename for details.

Fixed bugs

• Command aliases can now be loaded from repository config relative to the current working directory. #2414

Contributors

Thanks to the people who made this release happen!

• Austin Seipp (@thoughtpolice)
• Essien Ita Essien (@essiene)
• Gabriel Scherer (@gasche)
• Ilya Grigoriev (@ilyagr)
• Martin von Zweigbergk (@martinvonz)
• Philip Metzger (@PhilipMetzger)
• Waleed Khan (@arxanas)
• Yuya Nishihara (@yuja)

[0.12.0] - 2023-12-05

Breaking changes

• The remote_branches() revset no longer includes branches exported to the Git repository (so called Git-tracking branches.)

• jj branch set no longer creates a new branch. Use jj branch create instead.

• jj init --git in an existing Git repository now errors and exits rather than creating a second Git store.

New features

• jj workspace add can now take multiple --revision arguments, which will create a new workspace with its working-copy commit on top of all the parents, as if you had run jj new r1 r2 r3 ....

• You can now set git.abandon-unreachable-commits = false to disable the usual behavior where commits that became unreachable in the Git repo are abandoned (#2504).

• jj new gained a --no-edit option to prevent editing the newly created commit. For example, jj new a b --no-edit -m Merge creates a merge commit without affecting the working copy.

• jj rebase now takes the flag --skip-empty, which doesn't copy over commits that would become empty after a rebase.

• There is a new jj util gc command for cleaning up the repository storage. For now, it simply runs git gc on the backing Git repo (when using the Git backend).

Fixed bugs

• Fixed another file conflict resolution issue where jj status would disagree with the actual file content. #2654

Contributors

Thanks to the people who made this release happen!

• Antoine Cezar (@AntoineCezar)
• Anton Bulakh (@necauqua)
• Austin Seipp (@thoughtpolice)
• Benjamin Saunders (@Ralith)
• Carlos Precioso (@cprecioso)
• Chris Krycho (@chriskrycho)
• Ilya Grigoriev (@ilyagr)
• Jason R. Coombs (@jaraco)
• Jesse Somerville (@jessesomerville)
• Łukasz Kurowski (@crackcomm)
• Martin von Zweigbergk (@martinvonz)
• mlcui (@mlcui-corp)
• Philip Metzger (@PhilipMetzger)
• Waleed Khan (@arxanas)
• Yuya Nishihara (@yuja)

[0.11.0] - 2023-11-01

Breaking changes

• Conflicts are now stored in a different way. Commits written by a new jj binary will not be read correctly by older jj binaries. The new model solves some performance problems with the old model. For example, jj log should be noticeably faster on large repos. You may need to create a new clone to see the full speedup.

• The remote_branches() revset now includes branches exported to the Git repository (so called Git-tracking branches.) This change will be reverted in 0.12.0.

• Status messages are now printed to stderr.

• jj config set now interprets the value as TOML also if it's a valid TOML array or table. For example, jj config set --user 'aliases.n' '["new"]'

• Remote branches now have tracking or non-tracking flags. The git.auto-local-branch setting is applied only to newly fetched remote branches. Existing remote branches are migrated as follows:

  • If local branch exists, the corresponding remote branches are considered tracking branches.
  • Otherwise, the remote branches are non-tracking branches.

  If the deduced tracking flags are wrong, use jj branch track/untrack commands to fix them up.

  See automatic local branch creation for details.

• Non-tracking remote branches aren't listed by default. Use jj branch list --all to show all local and remote branches.

• It's not allowed to push branches if non-tracking remote branches of the same name exist.

• Pushing deleted/moved branches no longer abandons the local commits referenced by the remote branches.

• jj git fetch --branch now requires glob: prefix to expand * in branch name.

New features

• jj's stable release can now be installed with cargo binstall jj-cli.

• jj workspace add now takes a --revision argument.

• jj workspace forget can now forget multiple workspaces at once.

• branches()/remote_branches()/author()/committer()/description() revsets now support glob matching.

• jj branch delete/forget/list, and jj git push --branch now support string pattern syntax. The --glob option is deprecated in favor of glob: pattern.

• The branches/tags/git_refs/git_head template keywords now return a list of RefNames. They were previously pre-formatted strings.

• The new template keywords local_branches/remote_branches are added to show only local/remote branches.

• jj workspace add now preserves all parents of the old working-copy commit instead of just the first one.

• jj rebase -r gained the ability to rebase a revision A onto a descendant of A.

Fixed bugs

• Updating the working copy to a commit where a file that's currently ignored in the working copy no longer leads to a crash (#976).

• Conflicts in executable files can now be resolved just like conflicts in non-executable files (#1279).

• jj new --insert-before and --insert-after now respect immutable revisions (#2468).

Contributors

Thanks to the people who made this release happen!

• Antoine Cezar (@AntoineCezar)
• Austin Seipp (@thoughtpolice)
• Benjamin Saunders (@Ralith)
• Gabriel Scherer (@gasche)
• Ilya Grigoriev (@ilyagr)
• Infra (@1011X)
• Isabella Basso (@isinyaaa)
• Martin von Zweigbergk (@martinvonz)
• Tal Pressman (@talpr)
• Waleed Khan (@arxanas)
• Yuya Nishihara (@yuja)

[0.10.0] - 2023-10-04

Breaking changes

• A default revset-alias function trunk() now exists. If you previously defined your own trunk() alias it will continue to overwrite the built-in one. Check revsets.toml and revsets.md to understand how the function can be adapted.

New features

• The ancestors() revset function now takes an optional depth argument to limit the depth of the ancestor set. For example, use jj log -r 'ancestors(@, 5) to view the last 5 commits.

• Support for the Watchman filesystem monitor is now bundled by default. Set core.fsmonitor = "watchman" in your repo to enable.

• You can now configure the set of immutable commits via revset-aliases.immutable_heads(). For example, set it to "remote_branches() | tags()" to prevent rewriting those those. Their ancestors are implicitly also immutable.

• jj op log now supports --no-graph.

• Templates now support an additional escape: \0. This will output a literal null byte. This may be useful for e.g. jj log -T 'description ++ "\0"' --no-graph to output descriptions only, but be able to tell where the boundaries are

• jj now bundles a TUI tool to use as the default diff and merge editors. (The previous default was meld.)

• jj split supports the --interactive flag. (This is already the default if no paths are provided.)

• jj commit accepts an optional list of paths indicating a subset of files to include in the first commit

• jj commit accepts the --interactive flag.

Fixed bugs

Contributors

Thanks to the people who made this release happen!

• Austin Seipp (@thoughtpolice)
• Emily Kyle Fox (@emilykfox)
• glencbz (@glencbz)
• Hong Shin (@honglooker)
• Ilya Grigoriev (@ilyagr)
• James Sully (@sullyj3)
• Martin von Zweigbergk (@martinvonz)
• Philip Metzger (@PhilipMetzger)
• Ruben Slabbert (@rslabbert)
• Vamsi Avula (@avamsi)
• Waleed Khan (@arxanas)
• Willian Mori (@wmrmrx))
• Yuya Nishihara (@yuja)
• Zachary Dremann (@Dr-Emann)

[0.9.0] - 2023-09-06

Breaking changes

• The minimum supported Rust version (MSRV) is now 1.71.0.

• The storage format of branches, tags, and git refs has changed. Newly-stored repository data will no longer be loadable by older binaries.

• The : revset operator is deprecated. Use :: instead. We plan to delete the : form in jj 0.15+.

• The --allow-large-revsets flag for jj rebase and jj new was replaced by a all: before the revset. For example, use jj rebase -d 'all:foo-' instead of jj rebase --allow-large-revsets -d 'foo-'.

• The --allow-large-revsets flag for jj rebase and jj new can no longer be used for allowing duplicate destinations. Include the potential duplicates in a single expression instead (e.g. jj new 'all:x|y').

• The push.branch-prefix option was renamed to git.push-branch-prefix.

• The default editor on Windows is now Notepad instead of pico.

• jj will fail attempts to snapshot new files larger than 1MiB by default. This behavior can be customized with the snapshot.max-new-file-size config option.

• Author and committer signatures now use empty strings to represent unset names and email addresses. The author/committer template keywords and methods also return empty strings. Older binaries may not warn user when attempting to git push commits with such signatures.

• In revsets, the working-copy or remote symbols (such as @, workspace_id@, and branch@remote) can no longer be quoted as a unit. If a workspace or branch name contains whitespace, quote the name like "branch name"@remote. Also, these symbols will not be resolved as revset aliases or function parameters. For example, author(foo@) is now an error, and the revset alias 'revset-aliases.foo@' = '@' will be failed to parse.

• The root revset symbol has been converted to function root().

• The ..x revset is now evaluated to root()..x, which means the root commit is no longer included.

• jj git push will now push all branches in the range remote_branches()..@ instead of only branches pointing to @ or @-.

• It's no longer allowed to create a Git remote named "git". Use jj git remote rename to rename the existing remote. #1690

• Revset expression like origin/main will no longer resolve to a remote-tracking branch. Use main@origin instead.

New features

• Default template for jj log now does not show irrelevant information (timestamp, empty, message placeholder etc.) about the root commit.

• Commit templates now support the root keyword, which is true for the root commit and false for every other commit.

• jj init --git-repo now works with bare repositories.

• jj config edit --user and jj config set --user will now pick a default config location if no existing file is found, potentially creating parent directories.

• jj log output is now topologically grouped. #242

• jj git clone now supports the --colocate flag to create the git repo in the same directory as the jj repo.

• jj restore gained a new option --changes-in to restore files from a merge revision's parents. This undoes the changes that jj diff -r would show.

• jj diff/log now supports --tool <name> option to generate diffs by external program. For configuration, see the documentation. #1886

• A new experimental diff editor meld-3 is introduced that sets up Meld to allow you to see both sides of the original diff while editing. This can be used with jj split, jj move -i, etc.

• jj log/obslog/op log now supports --limit N option to show the first N entries.

• Added the ui.paginate option to enable/disable pager usage in commands

• jj checkout/jj describe/jj commit/jj new/jj squash can take repeated -m/--message arguments. Each passed message will be combined into paragraphs (separated by a blank line)

• It is now possible to set a default description using the new ui.default-description option, to use when describing changes with an empty description.

• jj split will now leave the description empty on the second part if the description was empty on the input commit.

• branches()/remote_branches()/author()/committer()/description() revsets now support exact matching. For example, branch(exact:main) selects the branch named "main", but not "maint". description(exact:"") selects commits whose description is empty.

• Revsets gained a new function mine() that aliases author(exact:"your_email").

• Added support for :: and .. revset operators with both left and right operands omitted. These expressions are equivalent to all() and ~root() respectively.

• jj log timestamp format now accepts .utc() to convert a timestamp to UTC.

• templates now support additional string methods .starts_with(x), .ends_with(x) .remove_prefix(x), .remove_suffix(x), and .substr(start, end).

• jj next and jj prev are added, these allow you to traverse the history in a linear style. For people coming from Sapling and git-branchles see #2126 for further pending improvements.

• jj diff --stat has been implemented. It shows a histogram of the changes, same as git diff --stat. Fixes #2066

• jj git fetch --all-remotes has been implemented. It fetches all remotes instead of just the default remote

Fixed bugs

• Fix issues related to .gitignore handling of untracked directories #2051.

• jj config set --user and jj config edit --user can now be used outside of any repository.

• SSH authentication could hang when ssh-agent couldn't be reached #1970

• SSH authentication can now use ed25519 and ed25519-sk keys. They still need to be password-less.

• Git repository managed by the repo tool can now be detected as a "colocated" repository. #2011

Contributors

Thanks to the people who made this release happen!

• Alexander Potashev (@aspotashev)
• Anton Bulakh (@necauqua)
• Austin Seipp (@thoughtpolice)
• Benjamin Brittain (@benbrittain)
• Benjamin Saunders (@Ralith)
• Christophe Poucet (@poucet)
• Emily Kyle Fox (@emilykfox)
• Glen Choo (@chooglen)
• Ilya Grigoriev (@ilyagr)
• Kevin Liao (@kevincliao)
• Linus Arver (@listx)
• Martin Clausen (@maacl)
• Martin von Zweigbergk (@martinvonz)
• Matt Freitas-Stavola (@mbStavola)
• Oscar Bonilla (@ob)
• Philip Metzger (@PhilipMetzger)
• Piotr Kufel (@qfel)
• Preston Van Loon (@prestonvanloon)
• Tal Pressman (@talpr)
• Vamsi Avula (@avamsi)
• Vincent Breitmoser (@Valodim)
• Vladimir (@0xdeafbeef)
• Waleed Khan (@arxanas)
• Yuya Nishihara (@yuja)
• Zachary Dremann (@Dr-Emann)

[0.8.0] - 2023-07-09

Breaking changes

• The jujutsu and jujutsu-lib crates were renamed to jj-cli and jj-lib, respectively.

• The ui.oplog-relative-timestamps option has been removed. Use the format_time_range() template alias instead. For details, see the documentation.

• Implicit concatenation of template expressions has been disabled. Use ++ operator, concat(), or separate() function instead. Example: description ++ "\n"

• jj git push will consider pushing the parent commit only when the current commit has no content and no description, such as right after a jj squash.

• The minimum supported Rust version (MSRV) is now 1.64.0.

• The heads() revset function was split up into two functions. heads() without arguments is now called visible_heads(). heads() with one argument is unchanged.

• The ui.default-revset config was renamed to revsets.log.

• The jj sparse command was split up into jj sparse list and jj sparse set.

• jj hide (alias for jj abandon) is no longer available. Use jj abandon instead.

• jj debug completion, jj debug mangen and jj debug config-schema have been moved from jj debug to jj util.

• jj will no longer parse br as a git_ref refs/heads/br when a branch br does not exist but the git_ref does (this is rare). Use br@git instead.

• jj git fetch will no longer import unrelated branches from the underlying Git repo.

New features

• jj git push --deleted will remove all locally deleted branches from the remote.

• jj restore without --from works correctly even if @ is a merge commit.

• jj rebase now accepts multiple -s and -b arguments. Revsets with multiple commits are allowed with --allow-large-revsets.

• jj git fetch now supports a --branch argument to fetch some of the branches only.

• jj config get command allows retrieving config values for use in scripting.

• jj config set command allows simple config edits like jj config set --repo user.email "somebody@example.com"

• Added ui.log-word-wrap option to wrap jj log/obslog/op log content based on terminal width. #1043

• Nodes in the (text-based) graphical log output now use a ◉ symbol instead of the letter o. The ASCII-based graph styles still use o.

• Commands that accept a diff format (jj diff, jj interdiff, jj show, jj log, and jj obslog) now accept --types to show only the type of file before and after.

• jj describe now supports --reset-author for resetting a commit's author to the configured user. jj describe also gained a --no-edit option to avoid opening the editor.

• Added latest(x[, n]) revset function to select the latest n commits.

• Added conflict() revset function to select commits with conflicts.

• jj squash AKA jj amend now accepts a --message option to set the description of the squashed commit on the command-line.

• The progress display on jj git clone/fetch now includes the downloaded size.

• The formatter now supports a "default" color that can override another color defined by a parent style.

• jj obslog and jj log now show abandoned commits as hidden.

• jj git fetch and jj git push will now use the single defined remote even if it is not named "origin".

• jj git push now accepts --branch and --change arguments together.

• jj git push now accepts a -r/--revisions flag to specify revisions to push. All branches pointing to any of the specified revisions will be pushed. The flag can be used together with --branch and --change.

• jj with no subcommand now defaults to jj log instead of showing help. This command can be overridden by setting ui.default-command.

• Description tempfiles created via jj describe now have the file extension .jjdescription to help external tooling detect a unique filetype.

• The shortest unique change ID prefixes and commit ID prefixes in jj log are now shorter within the default log revset. You can override the default by setting the revsets.short-prefixes config to a different revset.

• The last seen state of branches in the underlying git repo is now presented by jj branch list/jj log as a remote called git (e.g. main@git). They can also be referenced in revsets. Such branches exist in colocated repos or if you use jj git export.

• The new jj chmod command allows setting or removing the executable bit on paths. Unlike the POSIX chmod, it works on Windows, on conflicted files, and on arbitrary revisions. Bits other than the executable bit are not planned to be supported.

• jj sparse set now accepts an --edit flag which brings up the $EDITOR to edit sparse patterns.

• jj branch list can now be filtered by revset.

• Initial support for the Watchman filesystem monitor. Set core.fsmonitor = "watchman" in your repo to enable.

Fixed bugs

• Modify/delete conflicts now include context lines #1244.

• It is now possible to modify either side of a modify/delete conflict (any change used to be considered a resolution).

• Fixed a bug that could get partially resolved conflicts to be interpreted incorrectly.

• jj git fetch: when re-adding a remote repository that had been previously removed, in some situations the remote branches were not recreated.

• jj git remote rename: the git remote references were not rewritten with the new name. If a new remote with the old name and containing the same branches was added, the remote branches may not be recreated in some cases.

• jj workspace update-stale now snapshots the working-copy changes before updating to the new working-copy commit.

• It is no longer allowed to create branches at the root commit.

• git checkout (without using jj) in colocated repo no longer abandons the previously checked-out anonymous branch. #1042.

• jj git fetch in a colocated repo now abandons branches deleted on the remote, just like in a non-colocated repo. #864

• jj git fetch can now fetch forgotten branches even if they didn't move on the remote. #1714 #1771

• It is now possible to jj branch forget deleted branches. #1537

• Fixed race condition when assigning change id to Git commit. If you've already had unreachable change ids, run jj debug reindex. #924

• Fixed false divergence on racy working-copy snapshots. #697, #1608

• In colocated repos, a bug causing conflicts when undoing branch moves (#922) has been fixed. Some surprising behaviors related to undoing jj git push or jj git fetch remain.

Contributors

Thanks to the people who made this release happen!

• Aaron Bull Schaefer (@elasticdog)
• Anton Bulakh (@necauqua)
• Austin Seipp (@thoughtpolice)
• Benjamin Saunders (@Ralith)
• B Wilson (@xelxebar)
• Christophe Poucet (@poucet)
• David Barnett (@dbarnett)
• Glen Choo (@chooglen)
• Grégoire Geis (@71)
• Ilya Grigoriev (@ilyagr)
• Isabella Basso (@isinyaaa)
• Kevin Liao (@kevincliao)
• Martin von Zweigbergk (@martinvonz)
• mlcui (@mlcui-corp)
• Samuel Tardieu (@samueltardieu)
• Tal Pressman (@talpr)
• Vamsi Avula (@avamsi)
• Waleed Khan (@arxanas)
• Yuya Nishihara (@yuja)

[0.7.0] - 2023-02-16

Breaking changes

• The minimum supported Rust version (MSRV) is now 1.61.0.

• The jj touchup command was renamed to jj diffedit.

• The -i option to jj restore was removed in favor of new --from/--to options to jj diffedit.

• To report the situation when a change id corresponds to multiple visible commits, jj log now prints the change id in red and puts ?? after it. Previously, it printed the word "divergent".

• jj log prefixes commit descriptions with "(empty)" when they contain no change compared to their parents.

• The author/committer templates now display both name and email. Use author.name()/committer.name() to extract the name.

• Storage of the "HEAD@git" reference changed and can now have conflicts. Operations written by a new jj binary will have a "HEAD@git" reference that is not visible to older binaries.

• The description template keyword is now empty if no description set. Use if(description, description, "(no description set)\n") to get back the previous behavior.

• The template.log.graph and template.commit_summary config keys were renamed to templates.log and templates.commit_summary respectively.

• If a custom templates.log template is set, working-copy commit will no longer be highlighted automatically. Wrap your template with label(if(current_working_copy, "working_copy"), ...) to label the working-copy entry.

• The ui.relative-timestamps option has been removed. Use the format_timestamp() template alias instead. For details on showing relative timestamps in jj log and jj show, see the documentation.

• jj op log now shows relative timestamps by default. To disable, set ui.oplog-relative-timestamps to false.

• The global --no-commit-working-copy is now called --ignore-working-copy.

• The diff.format config option is now called ui.diff.format. The old name is still supported for now.

• merge-tools.<name>.edit-args now requires $left/$right parameters. The default is edit-args = ["$left", "$right"].

• The builtin jj update and jj up aliases for jj checkout have been deleted.

• Change IDs are now rendered using letters from the end of the alphabet (from 'z' through 'k') instead of the usual hex digits ('0' through '9' and 'a' through 'f'). This is to clarify the distinction between change IDs and commit IDs, and to allow more efficient lookup of unique prefixes. This change doesn't affect the storage format; existing repositories will remain usable.

New features

• The default log format now uses the committer timestamp instead of the author timestamp.

• jj log --summary --patch now shows both summary and diff outputs.

• jj git push now accepts multiple --branch/--change arguments

• jj config list command prints values from config and config edit opens the config in an editor.

• jj debug config-schema command prints out JSON schema for the jj TOML config file format.

• jj resolve --list can now describe the complexity of conflicts.

• jj resolve now notifies the user of remaining conflicts, if any, on success. This can be prevented by the new --quiet option.

• Per-repository configuration is now read from .jj/repo/config.toml.

• Background colors, bold text, and underlining are now supported. You can set e.g. color.error = { bg = "red", bold = true, underline = true } in your ~/.jjconfig.toml.

• The empty condition in templates is true when the commit makes no change to the three compared to its parents.

• branches([needle]) revset function now takes needle as an optional argument and matches just the branches whose name contains needle.

• remote_branches([branch_needle[, remote_needle]]) now takes branch_needle and remote_needle as optional arguments and matches just the branches whose name contains branch_needle and remote contains remote_needle.

• jj git fetch accepts repeated --remote arguments.

• Default remotes can be configured for the jj git fetch and jj git push operations ("origin" by default) using the git.fetch and git.push configuration entries. git.fetch can be a list if multiple remotes must be fetched from.

• jj duplicate can now duplicate multiple changes in one go. This preserves any parent-child relationships between them. For example, the entire tree of descendants of abc can be duplicated with jj duplicate abc:.

• jj log now highlights the shortest unique prefix of every commit and change id and shows the rest in gray. To customize the length and style, use the format_short_id() template alias. For details, see the documentation.

• jj print was renamed to jj cat. jj print remains as an alias.

• In content that goes to the terminal, the ANSI escape byte (0x1b) is replaced by a "␛" character. That prevents them from interfering with the ANSI escapes jj itself writes.

• jj workspace root prints the root path of the current workspace.

• The [alias] config section was renamed to [aliases]. The old name is still accepted for backwards compatibility for some time.

• Commands that draw an ASCII graph (jj log, jj op log, jj obslog) now have different styles available by setting e.g. ui.graph.style = "curved".

• jj split accepts creating empty commits when given a path. jj split . inserts an empty commit between the target commit and its children if any, and jj split any-non-existent-path inserts an empty commit between the target commit and its parents.

• Command arguments to ui.diff-editor/ui.merge-editor can now be specified inline without referring to [merge-tools] table.

• jj rebase now accepts a new --allow-large-revsets argument that allows the revset in the -d argument to expand to several revisions. For example, jj rebase -s B -d B- -d C now works even if B is a merge commit.

• jj new now also accepts a --allow-large-revsets argument that behaves similarly to jj rebase --allow-large-revsets.

• jj new --insert-before inserts the new commit between the target commit and its parents.

• jj new --insert-after inserts the new commit between the target commit and its children.

• author/committer templates now support .username(), which leaves out the domain information of .email().

• It is now possible to change the author format of jj log with the format_short_signature() template alias. For details, see the documentation.

• Added support for template aliases. New symbols and functions can be configured by template-aliases.<name> = <expression>. Be aware that the template syntax isn't documented yet and is likely to change.

• The ui.diff-instructions config setting can be set to false to inhibit the creation of the JJ-INSTRUCTIONS file as part of diff editing.

Fixed bugs

• When sharing the working copy with a Git repo, we used to forget to export branches to Git when only the working copy had changed. That's now fixed.

• Commit description set by -m/--message is now terminated with a newline character, just like descriptions set by editor are.

• The -R/--repository path must be a valid workspace directory. Its ancestor directories are no longer searched.

• Fixed a crash when trying to access a commit that's never been imported into the jj repo from a Git repo. They will now be considered as non-existent if referenced explicitly instead of crashing.

• Fixed handling of escaped characters in .gitignore (only keep trailing spaces if escaped properly).

• jj undo now works after jj duplicate.

• jj duplicate followed by jj rebase of a tree containing both the original and duplicate commit no longer crashes. The fix should also resolve any remaining instances of https://github.com/martinvonz/jj/issues/27.

• Fix the output of jj debug completion --help by reversing fish and zsh text.

• Fixed edge case in jj git fetch when a pruned branch is a prefix of another branch.

Contributors

Thanks to the people who made this release happen!

• Aleksandr Mikhailov (@AM5800)
• Augie Fackler (@durin42)
• Benjamin Saunders (@Ralith)
• Daniel Ploch (@torquestomp)
• Danny Hooper (@hooper)
• David Barnett (@dbarnett)
• Glen Choo (@chooglen)
• Herby Gillot (@herbygillot)
• Ilya Grigoriev (@ilyagr)
• Luke Granger-Brown (@lukegb)
• Martin von Zweigbergk (@martinvonz)
• Michael Forster (@MForster)
• Philip Metzger (@PhilipMetzger)
• Ruben Slabbert (@rslabbert)
• Samuel Tardieu (@samueltardieu)
• Tal Pressman (@talpr)
• Vamsi Avula (@avamsi)
• Waleed Khan (@arxanas)
• Yuya Nishihara (@yuja)

[0.6.1] - 2022-12-05

No changes, only changed to a released version of the thrift crate dependency.

[0.6.0] - 2022-12-05

Breaking changes

• Dropped candidates set argument from description(needle), author(needle), committer(needle), merges() revsets. Use x & description(needle) instead.

• Adjusted precedence of revset union/intersection/difference operators. x | y & z is now equivalent to x | (y & z).

• Support for open commits has been dropped. The ui.enable-open-commits config that was added in 0.5.0 is no longer respected. The jj open/close commands have been deleted.

• jj commit is now a separate command from jj close (which no longer exists). The behavior has changed slightly. It now always asks for a description, even if there already was a description set. It now also only works on the working-copy commit (there's no -r argument).

• If a workspace's working-copy commit has been updated from another workspace, most commands in that workspace will now fail. Use the new jj workspace update-stale command to update the workspace to the new working-copy commit. (The old behavior was to automatically update the workspace.)

New features

• Commands with long output are paginated. #9

• The new jj git remote rename command allows git remotes to be renamed in-place.

• The new jj resolve command allows resolving simple conflicts with an external 3-way-merge tool.

• jj git push will search @- for branches to push if @ has none.

• The new revset function file(pattern..) finds commits modifying the paths specified by the pattern...

• The new revset function empty() finds commits modifying no files.

• Added support for revset aliases. New symbols and functions can be configured by revset-aliases.<name> = <expression>.

• It is now possible to specify configuration options on the command line with the new --config-toml global option.

• jj git subcommands will prompt for credentials when required for HTTPS remotes rather than failing. #469

• Branches that have a different target on some remote than they do locally are now indicated by an asterisk suffix (e.g. main*) in jj log. #254

• The commit ID was moved from first on the line in jj log output to close to the end. The goal is to encourage users to use the change ID instead, since that is generally more convenient, and it reduces the risk of creating divergent commits.

• The username and hostname that appear in the operation log are now configurable via config options operation.username and operation.hostname.

• jj git subcommands now support credential helpers.

• jj log will warn if it appears that the provided path was meant to be a revset.

• The new global flag -v/--verbose will turn on debug logging to give some additional insight into what is happening behind the scenes. Note: This is not comprehensively supported by all operations yet.

• jj log, jj show, and jj obslog now all support showing relative timestamps by setting ui.relative-timestamps = true in the config file.

Fixed bugs

• A bug in the export of branches to Git caused spurious conflicted branches. This typically occurred when running in a working copy colocated with Git (created by running jj init --git-dir=.). #463

• When exporting branches to Git, we used to fail if some branches could not be exported (e.g. because Git doesn't allow a branch called main and another branch called main/sub). We now print a warning about these branches instead. #493

• If you had modified branches in jj and also modified branches in conflicting ways in Git, jj git export used to overwrite the changes you made in Git. We now print a warning about these branches instead.

• jj edit root now fails gracefully.

• jj git import used to abandon a commit if Git branches and tags referring to it were removed. We now keep it if a detached HEAD refers to it.

• jj git import no longer crashes when all Git refs are removed.

• Git submodules are now ignored completely. Earlier, files present in the submodule directory in the working copy would become added (tracked), and later removed if you checked out another commit. You can now use git to populate the submodule directory and jj will leave it alone.

• Git's GC could remove commits that were referenced from jj in some cases. We are now better at adding Git refs to prevent that. #815

• When the working-copy commit was a merge, jj status would list only the first parent, and the diff summary would be against that parent. The output now lists all parents and the diff summary is against the auto-merged parents.

Contributors

Thanks to the people who made this release happen!

• Martin von Zweigbergk (@martinvonz)
• Benjamin Saunders (@Ralith)
• Yuya Nishihara (@yuja)
• Glen Choo (@chooglen)
• Ilya Grigoriev (@ilyagr)
• Ruben Slabbert (@rslabbert)
• Waleed Khan (@arxanas)
• Sean E. Russell (@xxxserxxx)
• Pranay Sashank (@pranaysashank)
• Luke Granger-Brown (@lukegb)

[0.5.1] - 2022-10-17

No changes (just trying to get automated GitHub release to work).

[0.5.0] - 2022-10-17

Breaking changes

• Open commits are now disabled by default. That means that jj checkout will always create a new change on top of the specified commit and will let you edit that in the working copy. Set ui.enable-open-commits = true to restore the old behavior and let us know that you did so we know how many people prefer the workflow with open commits.

• jj [op] undo and jj op restore used to take the operation to undo or restore to as an argument to -o/--operation. It is now a positional argument instead (i.e. jj undo -o abc123 is now written jj undo abc123).

• An alias that is not configured as a string list (e.g. my-status = "status" instead of my-status = ["status"]) is now an error instead of a warning.

• jj log now defaults to showing only commits that are not on any remote branches (plus their closest commit on the remote branch for context). This set of commits can be overridden by setting ui.default-revset. Use jj log -r 'all()' for the old behavior. Read more about revsets here. #250

• jj new now always checks out the new commit (used to be only if the parent was @).

• jj merge now checks out the new commit. The command now behaves exactly like jj new, except that it requires at least two arguments.

• When the working-copy commit is abandoned by jj abandon and the parent commit is open, a new working-copy commit will be created on top (the open parent commit used to get checked out).

• jj branch now uses subcommands like jj branch create and jj branch forget instead of options like jj branch --forget. #330

• The $NO_COLOR environment variable no longer overrides the ui.color configuration if explicitly set.

• jj edit has been renamed to jj touchup, and jj edit is now a new command with different behavior. The new jj edit lets you edit a commit in the working copy, even if the specified commit is closed.

• jj git push no longer aborts if you attempt to push an open commit (but it now aborts if a commit does not have a description).

• jj git push now pushes only branches pointing to the @ by default. Use --all to push all branches.

• The checkouts template keyword is now called working_copies, and current_checkout is called current_working_copy.

New features

• The new jj interdiff command compares the changes in commits, ignoring changes from intervening commits.

• jj rebase now accepts a --branch/-b <revision> argument, which can be used instead of -r or -s to specify which commits to rebase. It will rebase the whole branch, relative to the destination. The default mode has changed from -r @ to -b @.

• The new jj print command prints the contents of a file in a revision.

• The new jj git remotes list command lists the configured remotes and their URLs. #243

• jj move and jj squash now lets you limit the set of changes to move by specifying paths on the command line (in addition to the --interactive mode). For example, use jj move --to @-- foo to move the changes to file (or directory) foo in the working copy to the grandparent commit.

• When jj move/squash/unsquash abandons the source commit because it became empty and both the source and the destination commits have non-empty descriptions, it now asks for a combined description. If either description was empty, it uses the other without asking.

• jj split now lets you specify on the CLI which paths to include in the first commit. The interactive diff-editing is not started when you do that.

• Sparse checkouts are now supported. In fact, all working copies are now "sparse", only to different degrees. Use the jj sparse command to manage the paths included in the sparse checkout.

• Configuration is now also read from ~/.jjconfig.toml.

• The $JJ_CONFIG environment variable can now point to a directory. If it does, all files in the directory will be read, in alphabetical order.

• The $VISUAL environment is now respected and overrides $EDITOR. The new ui.editor config has higher priority than both of them. There is also a new $JJ_EDITOR environment variable, which has even higher priority than the config.

• You can now use - and + in revset symbols. You used to have to quote branch names like my-feature in nested quotes (outer layer for your shell) like jj co '"my-feature"'. The quoting is no longer needed.

• The new revset function connected(x) is the same as x:x.

• The new revset function roots(x) finds commits in the set that are not descendants of other commits in the set.

• ssh-agent is now detected even if $SSH_AGENT_PID is not set (as long as $SSH_AUTH_SOCK is set). This should help at least macOS users where ssh-agent is launched by default and only $SSH_AUTH_SOCK is set.

• When importing from a git, any commits that are no longer referenced on the git side will now be abandoned on the jj side as well. That means that jj git fetch will now abandon unreferenced commits and rebase any local changes you had on top.

• jj git push gained a --change <revision> argument. When that's used, it will create a branch named after the revision's change ID, so you don't have to create a branch yourself. By default, the branch name will start with push-, but this can be overridden by the push.branch-prefix config setting.

• jj git push now aborts if you attempt to push a commit without a description or with the placeholder "(no name/email configured)" values for author/committer.

• Diff editor command arguments can now be specified by config file. Example:

  [merge-tools.kdiff3]
  program = "kdiff3"
  edit-args = ["--merge", "--cs", "CreateBakFiles=0"]
  

• jj branch can accept any number of branches to update, rather than just one.

• Aliases can now call other aliases.

• jj log now accepts a --reversed option, which will show older commits first.

• jj log now accepts file paths.

• jj obslog now accepts -p/--patch option, which will show the diff compared to the previous version of the change.

• The "(no name/email configured)" placeholder value for name/email will now be replaced if once you modify a commit after having configured your name/email.

• Color setting can now be overridden by --color=always|never|auto option.

• jj checkout now lets you specify a description with --message/-m.

• jj new can now be used for creating merge commits. If you pass more than one argument to it, the new commit will have all of them as parents.

Fixed bugs

• When rebasing a conflict where one side modified a file and the other side deleted it, we no longer automatically resolve it in favor of the modified content (this was a regression from commit c0ae4b16e8).

• Errors are now printed to stderr (they used to be printed to stdout).

• Updating the working copy to a commit where a file's executable bit changed but the contents was the same used to lead to a crash. That has now been fixed.

• If one side of a merge modified a directory and the other side deleted it, it used to be considered a conflict. The same was true if both sides added a directory with different files in. They are now merged as if the missing directory had been empty.

• When using jj move to move part of a commit into an ancestor, any branches pointing to the source commit used to be left on a hidden intermediate commit. They are now correctly updated.

• jj untrack now requires at least one path (allowing no arguments was a UX bug).

• jj rebase now requires at least one destination (allowing no arguments was a UX bug).

• jj restore --to <rev> now restores from the working copy (it used to restore from the working copy's parent).

• You now get a proper error message instead of a crash when $EDITOR doesn't exist or exits with an error.

• Global arguments, such as --at-op=<operation>, can now be passed before an alias.

• Fixed relative path to the current directory in output to be . instead of empty string.

• When adding a new workspace, the parent of the current workspace's current checkout will be checked out. That was always the intent, but the root commit was accidentally checked out instead.

• When checking out a commit, the previous commit is no longer abandoned if it has a non-empty description.

• All commands now consistently snapshot the working copy (it was missing from e.g. jj undo and jj merge before).

[0.4.0] - 2022-04-02

Breaking changes

• Dropped support for config in ~/.jjconfig. Your configuration is now read from <config dir>/jj/config.toml, where <config dir> is ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME} or ~/.config/ on Linux, ~/Library/Application Support/ on macOS, and ~\AppData\Roaming\ on Windows.

New features

• You can now set an environment variable called $JJ_CONFIG to a path to a config file. That will then be read instead of your regular config file. This is mostly intended for testing and scripts.

• The standard $NO_COLOR environment variable is now respected.

• jj new now lets you specify a description with --message/-m.

• When you check out a commit, the old commit no longer automatically gets abandoned if it's empty and has descendants, it only gets abandoned if it's empty and does not have descendants.

• When undoing an earlier operation, any new commits on top of commits from the undone operation will be rebased away. For example, let's say you rebase commit A so it becomes a new commit A', and then you create commit B on top of A'. If you now undo the rebase operation, commit B will be rebased to be on top of A instead. The same logic is used if the repo was modified by concurrent operations (so if one operation added B on top of A, and one operation rebased A as A', then B would be automatically rebased on top of A'). See #111 for more examples. #111

• jj log now accepts -p/--patch option.

Fixed bugs

• Fixed crash on jj init --git-repo=. (it almost always crashed).

• When sharing the working copy with a Git repo, the automatic importing and exporting (sometimes?) didn't happen on Windows.

[0.3.3] - 2022-03-16

No changes, only trying to get the automated build to work.

[0.3.2] - 2022-03-16

No changes, only trying to get the automated build to work.

[0.3.1] - 2022-03-13

Fixed bugs

• Fixed crash when core.excludesFile pointed to nonexistent file, and made leading ~/ in that config expand to $HOME/ #131

[0.3.0] - 2022-03-12

Last release before this changelog started.