Aliases

LazyJJ provides aliases that add value beyond built-in JJ commands. For shortcuts, see lazyjj-shortcuts.toml.

Philosophy: Value-Add Over Shortcuts

LazyJJ’s approach to aliases:

• Value-add aliases: Do something Git or vanilla JJ don’t (these are in the main reference)
• Pure shortcuts: Just shorter names for existing commands (separate file)

This keeps the main aliases file focused on LazyJJ’s unique contributions to the JJ workflow.

Value-Add Aliases

These aliases add flags or combine commands beyond what JJ provides natively:

Diff Aliases

Command	Shortcut	JJ Command	Purpose
diff-summary	diffs	diff --summary --no-pager	Compact diff summary
diff-files	diffls	diff --name-only --no-pager	List changed files only

Log Aliases

Command	JJ Command	Purpose
log-short	log --limit 10	Quick log (last 10 commits)

Shortcuts

LazyJJ also provides shortcuts via lazyjj-shortcuts.toml:

Shortcut	Command
diffs	diff-summary
diffls	diff-files
gf	git fetch

For stack-related shortcuts (stack, top, sync, etc.), see Stack Workflow. For GitHub shortcuts (prv, pro, sprs, etc.), see GitHub Integration.

Examples

# Using value-add aliases
jj diff-files    # Just file names
jj diff-summary  # Summary of changes
jj log-short     # See recent history (last 10)

# Using shortcuts
jj diffs         # Same as diff-summary
jj diffls        # Same as diff-files
jj gf            # Same as 'jj git fetch'

Customizing Aliases

To add your own aliases or override LazyJJ’s, create a file in ~/.config/jj/conf.d/ that sorts after lazyjj-*:

~/.config/jj/conf.d/zzz-my-aliases.toml

[aliases]
# Add custom aliases
mylog = ["log", "--limit", "5", "-T", "builtin_log_compact"]

# Override a LazyJJ alias
log-short = ["log", "--limit", "20"]