Move empty commit automatically

[mrzv]

Is there a way to streamline the following very common situation? I have an empty commit (the kind that will be automatically abandoned, if I say jj new somewhere-else), and its parent is some bookmark, e.g., main. After I issue jj git fetch, main moves automatically, but I'm still on the same empty commit that's now behind. So I have to manually issue jj new main. Is there a way to create an automagic command, similar to jj tug, that combines jj git fetch and jj new last-closest-bookmark?

[PhilipMetzger]

this is what jj git sync will achieve (see #1039 and its PR #6826)

[mrzv]

It took me a while to wrap my head around what's proposed, but now that I get it, I think it's great. It would solve this problem as a special case.

[PhilipMetzger]

to explain the issue your seeing a bit more, jj git fetch only fetches the new refs from the remote and doesn't automatically rebase you on the latest commit, that's why a jj rebase -d main is required which has been the case for the last 2.5 years. jj git sync will have the ability to do that though.

[mrzv]

Yeah, I get that part. My original question wasn't about rebasing existing commits. I don't mind doing that by hand. I was asking about the special case where there are no changes, and so automatically moving the empty commit forward (really just a jj new main) is all that's needed and is probably the most logical behavior anyway.

[PhilipMetzger]

yes, you're correct here, sorry for misreading the question.