Find the commits that have been left over from bookmark movement/deletion

[lakshayg]

Often times I see commits in jj log that have already been merged (squashed) but jj is still holding on to them. How do I clean them up?

[lakshayg]

I clean them up using this revset which says "find all my commits that don't lead to a local or remote bookmark"

[revset-aliases]
"relics()" = "(mine() ~ ::(bookmarks() | remote_bookmarks() | @))::"

The top level :: is needed to handle cases where I might have cherry-picked a commit into my branch.

jj log -r 'relics()'
jj abandon -r 'relics()'

[josephlou5]

Given how common anonymous branches are in jj, I think this might be selecting too much. In a lot of my repos, it selects almost all of my mutable commits.

[lakshayg]

@josephlou5 that’s true, my workflow is still very much bookmark/branch based. If you rely on anonymous branches then this revset is not the right choice.

[josephlou5]

Related: #7309.