IMO its inspired by the best parts of git, hg, and darcs. jj split alone is worth the price of admission IMO I haven't done a TON of scripted use of jj, but wh

IMO its inspired by the best parts of git, hg, and darcs. jj split alone is worth the price of admission IMO I haven't done a TON of scripted use of jj, but when I have the built in templating has come in clutch. If you want a command to return in a certain format (or include/exclude certain metadata) it's usually easier- and probably more future proof- to tweak the jj command's template than to parse the string in your script.