pijul contribute would be kind of long to type. Aside from that, in my post here https://nest.pijul.com/pijul_org/pijul/discussions/60 I was discussing factoring away false semantic distinctions to be made in the UI and using very literal, boring, and straightforward naming. This improves composability, for one.
For recording changes to the repo I might do:
pijul add changes
That means we can do:
pijul remove changes
To unrecord changes.
pijul add files
To add files to repo.
pijul list files
To list files in repo.
pijul list changes
List recorded changes in the repo (aka pijul log)
…and so on.