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ux: it's often unclear what the destination commit for each change is #50

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arxanas opened this issue Jun 1, 2024 · 0 comments
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arxanas commented Jun 1, 2024

Description of the bug

Particularly in jj, people often don't know when using e.g. jj squash whether the selected changes will go in the parent or child commit.

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Expected behavior

  • It should be possible to meaningfully identify both sides of the commit/split.
  • One proposal is to add a caller-specified help label, like "select changes that will go into the parent/child commit".
  • In the long-term, supporting multi-way splits with a good interface would probably incidentally resolve the problem.

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@arxanas arxanas added the ux User interface and user experience issue label Jun 1, 2024
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