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This talk from JJ Con 2026 summarizes the jj version control system's configuration and tools ecosystem, covering built-in features and external scripts.

The author shares their experience using the jj version control tool alongside Git for improving PR clean-up workflows, highlighting its features like history editing and undo, while noting some usability issues.

A blog post demonstrates how to fix the error when accidentally typing 'jj jj' in the jj version control system by creating a recursive alias in the jj config file that passes arguments through using 'util exec --'.

The article presents a template alias for the jj version control system to generate more readable branch names by slugifying commit descriptions, improving usability over the default change ID-based names.