v0.44.0

[martinvonz]

About

jj is a Git-compatible version control system that is both simple and powerful. See
the installation instructions to get started.

Release highlights

• Support for fetching and pushing tags has now been stabilized. Tags can be
  tracked or untracked just like bookmarks. Tracked tags are pushed by default.

Breaking changes

• jj git fetch now fetches tags the same way it fetches bookmarks. Tags are
  fetched as <name>@<remote>, and these remote tags are automatically tracked
  by local tags of the same name. Running jj git fetch in an existing
  repository will re-fetch all tags to initialize the tracking state.

  Git's tagOpt is no longer respected. To disable tag fetching, set
  remotes.<name>.fetch-tags = '~*' in the jj configuration.

• jj git clone --fetch-tags=all|none|included is removed in favor of
  --tag=PATTERN.

• jj git push --all now pushes all tags in addition to bookmarks.

• The WorkspaceRef.root() and RepoPath.absolute() template functions now
  return Option<FsPath> and FsPath respectively, instead of String. The
  path keyword in jj config list templates now returns Option<FsPath>.

• jj file search now prints every matched line prefixed by the file path,
  instead of only the file paths of files containing a match. Use
  --name-only for the previous behavior.
  #9399

• Passing an argument more than once is no longer an error. The last occurrence
  wins, so jj --no-pager --no-pager version and jj log -n 5 -n 10 now work,
  and an argument baked into an alias or a wrapper can be given explicitly as
  well. Arguments that can be specified multiple times, such as --config and
  jj log -r, are unaffected and still collect all of their values.
  #8101
  #9859

Deprecations

None

New features

• New merge_point() revset function which (similar to fork_point) finds the
  point where multiple branches merge.

• jj workspace list now shows workspace roots by default. The output can be
  customized with templates.workspace_list or -T, and WorkspaceRef.root()
  returns an optional FsPath value.
  #9713,
  #9826

• New try(expr, fallback...) template function to suppress runtime errors.

• jj run now processes revisions from oldest to newest by default. The start
  order is guaranteed: each revision begins execution only after the previous
  one has started, even with --jobs higher than 1.

• jj run gained a --passthrough flag that connects the subprocess's
  stdout/stderr directly to the terminal instead of capturing output.

• jj run gained a --ignore-changes flag to avoid editing any revisions even
  if the command modifies the working copy.

• jj run gained a --ignore-errors flag to continue running against the
  remaining revisions even if the command exits with a nonzero exit code.

• jj file search now supports -n/--line-number to prefix each match with
  its 1-based line number within the file.

• jj git push gained a --allow-conflicts flag to allow pushing commits
  containing conflicts.

• New jj tag track/untrack commands to associate local tags with remotes.
  Note that fetched tags are tracked by default.

• Added builtin_log() revset alias for the built-in default jj log revset.
  revsets.log now defaults to builtin_log(), so custom log revsets can
  reuse the built-in default instead of copying its full expression.

• Added config option diff.stat.max-bar-width for use with --stat to limit
  the ++-- bar width. In the templating language, diff.stat() can optionally
  take a second (positional or named) argument max_bar_width for an equivalent
  effect.

• jj absorb now supports --interactive/-i/--tool to let you
  interactively choose which hunks from the source to consider for absorption.
  This is useful when you only want to absorb part of a commit without first
  splitting it. Any hunks that are not selected or cannot be absorbed remain in
  the source commit.

Fixed bugs

• Recursive alias definitions are detected more precisely. jj can now expand
  aliases that are simply repeated. For example, with the alias jj = [], the
  command jj jj jj will resolve to jj. Aliases can also fall back to the
  default command. For example, with the alias i = ["--ignore-working-copy"],
  jj i will resolve to jj --ignore-working-copy.

• Git temporary files are now cleaned up more reliably in the presence of
  signals (e.g. Ctrl-C). This should reduce the rate of "Could not acquire
  lock for index file" errors.
  (#7530)

• Fixed Git HEAD mismatch after the working copy became immutable.
  #9827

• jj now creates a new working-copy revision as soon as the one of the current
  workspace becomes immutable, as well as during snapshotting. This brings the
  behavior closer to jj 0.42 and earlier.

• Snapshotting no longer fails if the working copy contains a path whose name
  isn't valid UTF-8. Such paths can't be tracked, so they are now skipped and
  reported as a warning instead.
  #9774

• Fixed failure when reading configuration in copied repo with an empty
  repo-level configuration directory.

• jj diff and jj status no longer omit a rename or copy in a merge commit
  when the renamed source is present in more than one parent. The identical copy
  record reported for each parent was mistaken for a conflict and discarded.
  #9752

• jj run no longer panics when its revset includes a conflicted commit. The
  conflict is now preserved in the rewritten commit.
  #9747

• Fixed a panic when passing overly-large length parameters to ID templater
  functions (commit_id.short(), commit_id.shortest(), etc.).
  #9833

• jj git import and export in colocated workspaces are now disabled by
  default. These commands usually do nothing, but they had a race condition.

Contributors

Thanks to the people who made this release happen!

• Aaron Bies (@slerpyyy)
• Ada Alakbarova (@ada4a)
• Alexandre Hallaine (@alexandre-hallaine)
• Amaan Qureshi (@amaanq)
• Austin Seipp (@thoughtpolice)
• Caleb White (@calebdw)
• Chawye Hsu (@chawyehsu)
• David Rieber (@drieber)
• Gaëtan Lehmann (@glehmann)
• hexbinoct (@hexbinoct)
• ivelieu (@ivelieu)
• Joseph Lou (@josephlou5)
• Josh McKinney (@joshka)
• Josh Steadmon (@steadmon)
• Kevin Liao (@kevincliao)
• Luna Schwalbe (@lunagl)
• Martin von Zweigbergk (@martinvonz)
• Matt Van Horn (@mvanhorn)
• Nika Layzell (@mystor)
• Niko Savola (@nikosavola)
• Nitzan Raz (@BackSlasher)
• Noah Lev (@camelid)
• OlshaMB (@OlshaMB)
• Philip Metzger (@PhilipMetzger)
• Remo Senekowitsch (@senekor)
• Rob Pilling (@bobrippling)
• Stephen Jennings (@jennings)
• Techcable (@Techcable)
• TogarashiPepper (@TogarashiPepper)
• Vladimir Petrzhikovskii (@0xdeafbeef)
• Waleed Khan (@arxanas)
• Wang Yuantao (@0WD0)
• xtqqczze (@xtqqczze)
• Yash Bavadiya (@xevrion)
• Yuya Nishihara (@yuja)

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