v0.36.0

[martinvonz]

About

jj is a Git-compatible version control system that is both simple and powerful. See
the installation instructions to get started.

Release highlights

• The documentation has moved from https://jj-vcs.github.io/jj/ to
  https://docs.jj-vcs.dev/.

  301 redirects are being issued towards the new domain, so any existing links
  should not be broken.

• Fixed race condition that could cause divergent operations when running
  concurrent jj commands in colocated repositories. It is now safe to
  continuously run e.g. jj log without --ignore-working-copy in one
  terminal while you're running other commands in another terminal.
  #6830

• jj now ignores $PAGER set in the environment and uses less -FRX on most
  platforms (:builtin on Windows). See the docs for
  more information, and #3502 for
  motivation.

Breaking changes

• In filesets or path patterns, glob matching
  is enabled by default. You can use cwd:"path" to match literal paths.

• In the following commands, string pattern
  arguments are now parsed the same way they
  are in revsets and can be combined with logical operators: jj bookmark delete/forget/list/move, jj tag delete/list, jj git clone/fetch/push

• In the following commands, unmatched bookmark/tag names is no longer an
  error. A warning will be printed instead: jj bookmark delete/forget/move/track/untrack, jj tag delete, jj git clone/push

• The default string pattern syntax in revsets will be changed to glob: in a
  future release. You can opt in to the new default by setting
  ui.revsets-use-glob-by-default=true.

• Upgraded scm-record from v0.8.0 to v0.9.0. See release notes at
  https://github.com/arxanas/scm-record/releases/tag/v0.9.0.

• The minimum supported Rust version (MSRV) is now 1.89.

• On macOS, the deprecated config directory ~/Library/Application Support/jj
  is not read anymore. Use $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/jj instead (defaults to
  ~/.config/jj).

• Sub-repos are no longer tracked. Any directory containing .jj or .git
  is ignored. Note that Git submodules are unaffected by this.

Deprecations

• The --destination/-d arguments for jj rebase, jj split, jj revert,
  etc. were renamed to --onto/-o. The reasoning is that --onto,
  --insert-before, and --insert-after are all destination arguments, so
  calling one of them --destination was confusing and unclear. The old names
  will be removed at some point in the future, but we realize that they are
  deep in muscle memory, so you can expect an unusually long deprecation period.

• jj describe --edit is deprecated in favor of --editor.

• The config options git.auto-local-bookmark and git.push-new-bookmarks are
  deprecated in favor of remotes.<name>.auto-track-bookmarks. For example:

  [remotes.origin]
  auto-track-bookmarks = "glob:*"

  For more details, refer to
  the docs.

• The flag --allow-new on jj git push is deprecated. In order to push new
  bookmarks, please track them with jj bookmark track. Alternatively, consider
  setting up an auto-tracking configuration to avoid the chore of tracking
  bookmarks manually. For example:

  [remotes.origin]
  auto-track-bookmarks = "glob:*"

  For more details, refer to
  the docs.

New features

• jj commit, jj describe, jj squash, and jj split now accept
  --editor, which ensures an editor will be opened with the commit
  description even if one was provided via --message/-m.

• All jj commands show a warning when the provided fileset expression
  doesn't match any files.

• Added files() template function to DiffStats. This supports per-file stats
  like lines_added() and lines_removed()

• Added join() template function. This is different from separate() in that
  it adds a separator between all arguments, even if empty.

• RepoPath template type now has a absolute() -> String method that returns
  the absolute path as a string.

• Added format_path(path) template that controls how file paths are printed
  with jj file list.

• New built-in revset aliases visible() and hidden().

• Unquoted * is now allowed in revsets. bookmarks(glob:foo*) no longer
  needs quoting.

• jj prev/next --no-edit now generates an error if the working-copy has some
  children.

• A new config option remotes.<name>.auto-track-bookmarks can be set to a
  string pattern. New bookmarks matching it will be automatically tracked for
  the specified remote. See
  the docs.

• jj log now supports a --count flag to print the number of commits instead
  of displaying them.

Fixed bugs

• jj fix now prints a warning if a tool failed to run on a file.
  #7971

• Shell completion now works with non‑normalized paths, fixing the previous
  panic and allowing prefixes containing . or .. to be completed correctly.
  #6861

• Shell completion now always uses forward slashes to complete paths, even on
  Windows. This renders completion results viable when using jj in Git Bash.
  #7024

• Unexpected keyword arguments now return a parse failure for the coalesce()
  and concat() templating functions.

• Nushell completion script documentation add -f option, to keep it up to
  date.
  #8007

• Ensured that with Git submodules, remnants of your submodules do not show up
  in the working copy after running jj new.
  #4349

Contributors

Thanks to the people who made this release happen!

• abgox (@abgox)
• ase (@adamse)
• Björn Kautler (@Vampire)
• Bryce Berger (@bryceberger)
• Chase Naples (@cnaples79)
• David Higgs (@higgsd)
• edef (@edef1c)
• Evan Mesterhazy (@emesterhazy)
• Fedor (@sheremetyev)
• Gaëtan Lehmann (@glehmann)
• George Christou (@gechr)
• Hubert Lefevre (@Paluche)
• Ilya Grigoriev (@ilyagr)
• Jonas Greitemann (@jgreitemann)
• Joseph Lou (@josephlou5)
• Julia DeMille (@judemille)
• Kaiyi Li (@06393993)
• Kyle Lippincott (@spectral54)
• Lander Brandt (@landaire)
• Lucio Franco (@LucioFranco)
• Luke Randall (@lukerandall)
• Martin von Zweigbergk (@martinvonz)
• Matt Stark (@matts1)
• Mitchell Skaggs (@magneticflux-)
• Peter Schilling (@schpet)
• Philip Metzger (@PhilipMetzger)
• QingyaoLin (@QingyaoLin)
• Remo Senekowitsch (@senekor)
• Scott Taylor (@scott2000)
• Stephen Jennings (@jennings)
• Steve Klabnik (@steveklabnik)
• Tejas Sanap (@whereistejas)
• Tommi Virtanen (@tv42)
• Velociraptor115 (@Velociraptor115)
• Vincent Ging Ho Yim (@cenviity)
• Yuya Nishihara (@yuja)

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This discussion was created from the release v0.36.0.

[jasikpark]

Ah yeah, -d being deprecated will trip me up eventually...

[martinvonz]

You and me and every existing user (and every user switching from hg) :)

[tv42]

All the links to docs seem to be broken, they point inside Github discussions. This is likely an artifact of repurposing the markdown from CHANGELOG.md to here.

[yottoya]

Hello! I have a question about jj bookmark track- I keep running this, and I KNOW I have remote branhces but they're not getting picked up / tracked.

1. I made a local bookmark called "feat-db". Made 6 commits, pointed my bookmark to the latest change and then pushed that bookmark by "jj git push -b feat-db --allow-new" and it worked.

2. Then, my local "feat-db" disappeared, and although I see it in the repo on github, I cannot track it locally again by doing jj bookmark track feat-db@origin.

Why could this be?

I even tried doing jj bookmark track "glob:*@*" and it only could pickup and track main...

I also added this to my config but no luck

[remotes.origin]
auto-track-bookmarks = "glob:*"

Key thing to note is that I didn't make the repo, and am not the repo owner. I am just a user working on it.

Is this a possible reason why?