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It may be unclear since I screwed up the formatting of my post, but that's why I didn't end there. The rest of jj's capabilities change when and how I use it.

The absorb command originated in mercurial, which is where I've used it most. With `hg absorb`, I'd only use it when I was fairly sure that it would do the right thing, and I imagine it'd be the same with git. With jj, having `jj undo` as a fallback means I can use it just to see what it does and if it gets something wrong, undo it and do what I want in a different way. (But not that different -- `jj squash -i --into X` means I can do the same thing as it was doing manually.)



git absorb doesn't rewrite anything, it just creates commits you can use with autosquash, so you see what you would change first.




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