Installation and setup¶

Installation¶

Download pre-built binaries for a release¶

There are pre-built binaries of the last released version of jj for Windows, Mac, or Linux (the "musl" version should work on all distributions).

If you'd like to install a prerelease version, you'll need to use one of the options below.

Cargo Binstall¶

If you use cargo-binstall, you can install the same binaries of the last jj release from GitHub as follows:

# Will put the jj binary for the latest release in ~/.cargo/bin by default
cargo binstall --strategies crate-meta-data jj-cli

Without the --strategies option, you may get equivalent binaries that should be compiled from the same source code.

Linux¶

From Source¶

First make sure that you have the libssl-dev, openssl, pkg-config, and build-essential packages installed by running something like this:

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev openssl pkg-config build-essential

Now run either:

# To install the *prerelease* version from the main branch
cargo install --git https://github.com/martinvonz/jj.git --locked --bin jj jj-cli

or:

# To install the latest release
cargo install --locked --bin jj jj-cli

Arch Linux¶

You can install the jujutsu package from the official extra repository:

pacman -S jujutsu

Or install from the AUR repository with an AUR Helper:

yay -S jujutsu-git

Nix OS¶

If you're on Nix OS you can install a released version of jj using the nixpkgs jujutsu package.

To install a prerelease version, you can use the flake for this repository. For example, if you want to run jj loaded from the flake, use:

nix run 'github:martinvonz/jj'

You can also add this flake url to your system input flakes. Or you can install the flake to your user profile:

# Installs the prerelease version from the main branch
nix profile install 'github:martinvonz/jj'

Homebrew¶

If you use linuxbrew, you can run:

# Installs the latest release
brew install jj

Gentoo Linux¶

dev-vcs/jj is available in the GURU repository. Details on how to enable the GURU repository can be found here.

Once you have synced the GURU repository, you can install dev-vcs/jj via Portage:

emerge -av dev-vcs/jj

Mac¶

From Source, Vendored OpenSSL¶

You may need to run:

xcode-select --install

Now run either:

# To install the *prerelease* version from the main branch
cargo install --git https://github.com/martinvonz/jj.git \
     --features vendored-openssl --locked --bin jj jj-cli

or:

# To install the latest release
cargo install --features vendored-openssl -locked --bin jj jj-cli

From Source, Homebrew OpenSSL¶

You will need Homebrew installed. You may then need to run some or all of these:

xcode-select --install
brew install openssl
brew install pkg-config
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$(brew --prefix)/opt/openssl@3/lib/pkgconfig"

Now run either:

# To install the *prerelease* version from the main branch
cargo install --git https://github.com/martinvonz/jj.git --locked --bin jj jj-cli

or:

# To install the latest release
cargo install --locked --bin jj jj-cli

Homebrew¶

If you use Homebrew, you can run:

# Installs the latest release
brew install jj

MacPorts¶

You can also install jj via the MacPorts jujutsu port:

# Installs the latest release
sudo port install jujutsu

Windows¶

Run either:

# To install the *prerelease* version from the main branch
cargo install --git https://github.com/martinvonz/jj.git --locked --bin jj jj-cli --features vendored-openssl

or:

# To install the latest release
cargo install --locked --bin jj jj-cli --features vendored-openssl

Initial configuration¶

You may want to configure your name and email so commits are made in your name.

$ jj config set --user user.name "Martin von Zweigbergk"
$ jj config set --user user.email "martinvonz@google.com"

Command-line completion¶

To set up command-line completion, source the output of jj util completion bash/zsh/fish. Exactly how to source it depends on your shell.

Bash¶

source <(jj util completion bash)

Zsh¶

autoload -U compinit
compinit
source <(jj util completion zsh)

Fish¶

jj util completion fish | source

Nushell¶

jj util completion nushell | save completions-jj.nu
use completions-jj.nu *  # Or `source completions-jj.nu`

Xonsh¶

source-bash $(jj util completion)