Those senior devs don't work on the kind of industry that I work on, enterprise consulting with high attrition of team members, and possible offshore teams.

This kind of industry work needs factory line mindset, there aren't special knobs for someone on the sidelines working on the software rolling carpet, which granted isn't for everyone.

Can you choose your own IDE? if so, you should be able to choose how you manage git locally, such as with jj.

Nope, you get the IT validated image as per project delivery assignment, in many cases not even local, for security reasons it is a cloud VM.

Ok, so I'm just having trouble seeing how your situation is at all relevant to this discussion about the merits of jj. You simply have to use what you're assigned.

It isn't, you decided it was, reposting my comment.

> If I had an option, I would still be using something like Subversion or Mercurial.

> As it is, I go with whatever our clients require of us, and that isn't jj.

I share no desire to use jj in those words.

But how is that a relevant comment for this post about jj? People are talking about one thing and you're saying "I either can't use it at all, or am just happy with something else already". There was no discussion of the merits or shortcomings of jj...

All I was saying is that if a client requires you to use git, you could use jj without them knowing/caring - unless your entire workstation is under tight control, in which case, again, it's not relevant to the discussion