Two useful aliases for use with JJ

Everyone will have the jj tug alias defined in their list of aliases in their jj config. I would like to share two that I think are quite nifty and useful!

JJ Aliases

But I wanted to share two based on my month's use of JJ. The one thing that I do quite often is checkout other people's branches (bookmarks sorry 😉) to help them out. So my usual flow would have been to run something like...

jj bookmark list --all
# Read the results and then run
jj bookmark track --remote=origin <The bookmark I want to track>
# Do the review
jj bookmark forget <The bookmark I want to forget>
# or
jj bookmark untrack --remote=origin <The bookmark I want to untrack>

That is a bit of a faff so I just aliased these.

Note: You do need fzf installed in my version so I can quickly fuzzy find the bookmark name. But who doesn't have fzf installed by now?!

[aliases]
bt = ["util", "exec", "--", 'sh', '-euc', '''
  B=$(jj bookmark list --all -T 'name ++ "\n"' | sort | uniq | fzf)
  if [ -n "$B" ]; then
    jj b track --remote=origin "$B" > /dev/null 2>&1
    echo "Tracking: $B"
    jj b l --tracked
  fi
''' ]
bu = ["util", "exec", "--", 'sh', '-euc', '''
  B=$(jj b l --tracked -T 'name ++ "\n"' | sort | uniq | fzf)
  if [ -n "$B" ]; then
    jj b untrack --remote=origin "$B" > /dev/null 2>&1
    echo "Untracked: $B"
    jj b l --tracked
  fi
''' ]
bf = ["util", "exec", "--", 'sh', '-euc', '''
  B=$(jj b l --tracked -T 'name ++ "\n"' | sort | uniq | fzf)
  if [ -n "$B" ]; then
    jj b forget "$B" > /dev/null 2>&1
    echo "Forgot: $B"
    jj b l --tracked
  fi
''' ]

These aliases will run the first command, sort the output, remove duplicates, pipe it to fzf for you to select from, and then run the second command with your selection.

Good luck on your jj Journey!