Luckily you can turn it off and use the standard ‘add’ workflow. I did that almost reflexively when I started trying to use jj. (snapshot.auto-track)

However, over time, and once I got the .gitignore fully set up for bigger projects, I’ve come around on re-enabling autocommit for more of my repos. It does flow pretty naturally once you have an established process. I find it enables both better ‘undo’, and more seamless context-switching.

You can also set a more specific snapshot.auto-track on a repo or user basis for personal tooling conventions that don’t make sense to gitignore.

In case you are unaware, make sure to override DNS on any web browsers or other programs that might be skipping OS configured DNS servers to use hard-coded DNS over HTTPS servers.

If you’re running your own DNS resolver you can hint this to some applications in your network via a canary domain