move-to command

[altano]

I'm writing an alias that moves to a revision. I have 3 choices:

1. use jj new -r <revision> -- always new
2. use jj edit -r <revision -- always edit
3. use util exec and write a complicated bash script that picks jj new or jj edit, respecting --edit/--no-edit and config.ui.movement.edit

3 seems like the best option but it's cumbersome. If there was a jj move-to -r <revision> command that handled respecting arguments and config for new vs. edit, my alias would become as simple as:

top = ["move-to", "-r", "stack_top()"]

And this would respect either using new or edit based on config.ui.movement.edit (and presumably could respect --edit/--no-edit args via pass-through?)

You can think of this command as being analogous in behavior to jj next/jj prev, in that all these commands would default to jj new semantics while moving commits, but allow you to opt-in to jj edit semantics through either --edit OR config.ui.movement.edit = true

I haven’t given the name a lot of thought and would be happy with something else.

[joyously]

The way you have stated it, it's not a subcommand, but a command.
There used to be a command called move, and it's better now that it was renamed, although there have been other proposals for that same command.
In your case, it doesn't make sense, since you are describing the "movement" of the working copy, and most commands are verbs acting on their arguments.
To me, the move verb does not seem appropriate for anything except moving a file.

[altano]

Oh, yeah, command and not subcommand. The error when you type jj xxxxx says subcommand so that threw me off.

I don’t have strong feelings about the name and just threw one out there. I just wanted to propose the functionality. The reason I called it “move” is that the config for next/prev is called ui.movement.

Since I foresee that command mostly being used in aliases, it doesn’t even have to be short.

Anyway, unless someone takes the premise seriously enough to consider adding it, I don’t think we have to worry about the name?

[altano]

I edited the idea to use move-to