alt Hacker NewsAs someone who used phabricator and mercurial, using GitHub and git again feels like going back to the stone ages. Hopefully this and jujutsu can recreate stacked-diff flow of phabricator.
It’s not just nice for monorepos. It makes both reviewing and working on long-running feature projects so much nicer. It encourages smaller PRs or diffs so that reviews are quick and easy to do in between builds (whereas long pull requests take a big chunk of time).
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I continue to use gerrit explicitly because I cannot stand github reviews. Yes, in theory, make changes small. But if I'm doing larger work (like updating a vendored dep, that I still review), reviewing files is... not great... in github.
tangled.org supports native stacking with jujutsu, unlike github's implementation, you don't need to create a new branch per change: https://blog.tangled.org/stacking/
Oh, phabricator. I hated that tool with a passion. It always destroyed my carefully curated PR branch history.
See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20756320/how-to-prevent-...
I'm so glad git won the dvcs war. There was a solid decade where mercurial kept promoting itself as "faster than git*†‡" and every time I tried it wound up being dog slow (always) or broken (some of the time). Git is fugly but it's fast, reliable, and fugly, and I can work with that.