alt Hacker NewsYou could. That's not the point. I suggesting that if you want to try jj, try it based on its affordances, not by comparing it to how you'd do it differently with git.
Most of the tutorials start with git and try to teach you how to change your thinking. I think the project would find many more fans if it didn't make such a big deal about being kinda like git.
I did try it, but it was not my cup of tee. Git fits my mental modal better. Branches are experiments, commits are notes in my lab notebook, stashes are notes in scrap of papers, the staging area is for things that I plan to note down and the working tree is the workbench. Then every once in a while I take the notebook and rewrite stuff in it or update it to fit recent changes in the canonical branches. I use magit so the actual operations are just a few quick key presses.
I could probably do the same thing with jj, but why use a new tool when the old thing works well, has myriad of integrations, and it's fairly standard.