Checkout immutable change

[kriomant]

Sometimes I want to checkout, e.g. root of current branch. Say, in order to check that some things which are broken now aren't broken there and it's my fault.

jj edit says "Error: Commit … is immutable"

What is the proper way to handle it?

• use jj new -A…? but I'll then forget to drop it,
• use --ignore-immutable. But I don't want to accidentally change root commit,
• use git checkout
• anything else?

[martinvonz]

• use jj new -A…?

Without the -A.

but I'll then forget to drop it,

It should be dropped automatically when you update away from it.