okay, jj just saved me in a way that git didn't, and it's thanks to the auto-saving changes thing. the index would have lost this info. basically, i deleted some code like half an hour ago, but i wanted to look at it again. it was in the obslog. easy.

This is the third time jj has crossed my path. Once when I took an initial peek, followed by my teammate (Yosh) bringing it up, and this has seriously piqued my interest. Third time's a charm, perhaps? Reading: steveklabnik.github.io/jujutsu-tuto...

this happened to me before im lucky my shell prompt causes jj to make a snapshot!!

What is JJ?

I like this feature, but IMO it is awkward because (unless I’m mistaken) it only saves when you actually run a jj command. It makes sense (there would need to be some kind of daemon otherwise), but it also feels unreliable because I might just not run jj for a long time.

At your service.

wonder if you can get something similar from reflog if you just auto-stage things often? don't remember which state changes get represented there

I try to remember to set up regular (e.g., hourly, or maybe even more frequent!) ZFS snapshots on machines where I do real work so that I have some hope of surviving my own massive ham fists

I had this happen to me *today* and it cost me some effort/time. I'm slow to switch tools, but this seems like a big enough benefit to try it out.

I have emacs save 10 auto saved copies of every file I edit which is quite nice when you suddenly decide that you actually thought something was a good idea after you deleted it.

Good IDEs often have "Local History", doing snapshots of files you edit over time. Really useful sometimes and usually enabled by default. So If you're reading this, you might already be covered.