alt Hacker NewsI assume you mean named branches (bookmarks in jj)? Because anonymous branches in jj are trivial: you just `jj new <parent_change_id>` and you have a new branch.
Bookmarks aren’t that bad either IMO, especially with the recent addition of `jj bookmark advance`. Curious if you can say more about the particular difficulties you found keeping them up to date?
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nine_k • yesterday at 10:47 PM
Imagine that you use jj, while everyone else who works on the repo along with you uses regular git.
Is it easy?
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I think I said named branches, but that is definitely what I mean. I find it strange that people want to work on anonymous branches, but to each their own. I don't so that has no appeal to me.
I often work on something and then switch away to something else. it might be a week before i get back to it, and the name of the branch is a clue as to what the heck I was doing.
Other people often need to check out a branch I'm working on to help. How does anonymous branching help anyone except a solo developer?