Excluding Paths From Commit

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To commit everything in the working copy except one path, negate it with ~ instead of listing every path you want to include:

❯ jj
Working copy changes:
M .gitignore
D .scalafmt.conf
D script/project.scala
A docs/plans/2026-10-26-rust-migration.md

jj commit -m "refactor: remove Scala remnants after Rust migration" ~docs/

This commits the Scala removal and leaves the plan document in the working copy.

  • ~x is a fileset expression meaning "everything except x".
  • Negations combine with inclusions: jj commit -m "..." src/ ~src/generated/.

Reference: filesets