jj

jj [globaloptions] command [args_]

jj (Jujutsu) is a Git-compatible distributed version control system. Every working-copy change is recorded as a first-class revision, conflicts are stored in commits rather than blocking operations, and there are no branches in the Git sense — instead every commit is reachable through the revision graph and human-friendly bookmarks can be attached to any revision.The default backend is Git, so a jj repo can be made colocated with a real Git repo (`jj git init --colocate`), letting Git tools and other developers continue to interact through plain Git while you use jj locally.

git init [--colocate]

Initialize a new repository, optionally colocated with Git so both jj and git see the same working copy.

Clone a Git remote into a jj repo.

Show high-level repository / working copy state.

Display the revision graph.

Create a new (empty) change on top of the given revisions; defaults to the current working-copy parent.

Edit the description (commit message) of a change.

Move the working copy to an existing revision (replaces "checkout" thinking).

Move changes from one revision into another (default: current → its parent).

Move a revision (and optionally its descendants) onto a new destination.

Drop a change; descendants are rebased onto the parent.

Revert the last operation. Combine with jj op log and jj op restore for finer control.

Manage named references (jj's equivalent of Git branches): create, move, delete, track, untrack, list.

Git interop: fetch, push, import, export, remote.

Inspect and roll back the operation log (every command is recorded).

-R, --repository PATH

Operate on the repository at PATH.

Run the command at a previous operation in the operation log (read-only views).

Disable the pager for this invocation.

Inline configuration overrides.

The CLI is still pre-1.0 and changing — the bookmark subcommand was renamed from branch in 0.18, and many flags continue to evolve. jj git push by default pushes only the bookmarks that match the local working revisions; explicit pushes use --bookmark name or --all-bookmarks. Conflicts are stored on disk but the tooling around resolving them is still young.

Jujutsu was created in 2019 at Google by Martin von Zweigbergk as a personal experiment, open-sourced in 2022, and is now developed at github.com/jj-vcs/jj with a growing community of contributors.

jj-git(1), jj-log(1), git(1), hg(1)