Aliases

LazyJJ provides aliases that add value beyond built-in JJ commands. For shortcuts to native commands (st, d, n, e, ll), 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	Shortcut	JJ Command	Purpose
log-short	l	log --limit 10	Quick log (last 10 commits)
log-history	hist	log --no-pager	Full history without pager

Git Aliases

Command	Shortcut	JJ Command	Purpose
git-fetch	gf	git fetch	Fetch from remote

Shortcuts

LazyJJ also provides shortcuts to native JJ commands via lazyjj-shortcuts.toml:

Shortcut	JJ Command
st	status
d	diff
ll	log
n	new
e	edit

Examples

# Quick workflow using shortcuts
jj st            # Check what's changed
jj d             # See the diff
jj n             # Create new commit
jj l             # See recent history (last 10)

# Using value-add aliases
jj diff-files    # Just file names
jj diff-summary  # Summary of changes
jj log-history   # Full log without pager

# Fetch latest
jj git-fetch     # 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 shortcut
st = ["status", "--no-pager"]