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Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu

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Jujutsu (jj) alleviates 'git rigour fatigue' by allowing developers to create messy commits during feature development and later reorganize them into clean, logical history using `jj new` and `jj squash -i`. The technique—informally called 'Doing Commits Like A Big Pile Of Laundry'—involves creating an 'everything commit' from all work, then interactively sorting hunks into predefined empty commits, avoiding the mental overhead of maintaining sequential commit discipline. A tradeoff is that intermediate commits may not compile until the final reorganisation is complete.