• jj is overeager about adding stuff to ðe repos; it's by design.

One just needs to learn how to un-track stuff, by (1) adding the missing .gitignore entry, (2) issuing the "jj file untrack" ..." command, and (3) removing the file.

The big advantage is the simplification which becomes possible by this: no staging area, no git add / git remove / git commit, no stash save, stash pop, stash apply, and so on. No git amend, fixups, reset soft/hard/ mixed,...

And the overall complexity saving of jujutsu is enormous: two of the man pages on the more complex git commands are already larger and more complicated than all of the jujutsu command line reference (link)- which is pretty complete! And Steve Klabnik's jujutsu tutorial is about a tenth of the length of Beejs brilliant Guide on git. And with Klabnik's Introduction, you can already do more (for example complex rebase operations, like rebasing multiple branches at once).