Jujutsu: Resources and Notes

I started using Jujutsu exclusively¹ last week. The first few days were rough. Getting my mind right with bookmarks/branches and re-learning things like what rebase does has been interesting.

The Discord has been helpful.

There is the SelveJJ plugin for JetBrains IDEs. I’ve installed it but haven’t been able to get it working properly.

• Official JJ Docs
• Talks and Videos
  • stupid jj tricks
  • JJ Con @ Google 2025
• Quick References
  • Justin Pombrio’s JJ Cheat Sheet
  • Rahul’s Personal JJ Cheat Sheet
• JJ Tutorials
  • Stavros
    • Switch to Jujutsu already: a tutorial 🔥
  • The Official Tutorial
  • Steve Klabnik
    • Steve’s Jujutsu Tutorial
  • JJ For Everyone
  • Andre Arko
    • jj part 1: what is it
    • jj part 2: commands & revsets
    • jj part 3: workflows
    • jj part 4: configuration
• Alternative Diff Viewers
  • difftastic
  • Delta

Personal Snippets

jj diff --git | claude -p "Write a commit message reviewing the following changes. Do not add Generated by Claude Code. Output ONLY the commit message." | jj describe --stdin --edit

Footnotes

1. I ran into a problem where—I’m pretty sure—what happened was that I had a branch where I had merged in the upstream commits but forgot that I had done that. Later, I was editing code in a descendent commit and had run jj absorb. When I tried to merge everything it went completely sideways and somehow I ended up actually merging most of the current branch with the upstream changes. I ended up going back into git to figure out what really happened. ↩