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spr
- Stacked Pull Requests on GitHub
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Your GitHub pull request workflow is slowing everyone down
Graphite is neat. If you want something lighter-weight, spr[1] is also worth taking a look at as an entirely client-side "solution" to PR stacking.
Unfortunately, it is very hard to build good code review tooling on top of GitHub due to the severe impedance mismatch between the two models as well as GitHub API limitations and rate limits. That mismatch cannot be fully resolved (branches vs. patches) and results in constant friction, and you end up trusting a third party with full control over your repositories and approval workflows.
Graphite is the best attempt I've seen so far, but it still doesn't come anywhere close to Gerrit[2], which simply uses plain Git commits. Every commit becomes a review, and stacking is accomplished by simply pushing multiple commits. No custom tooling required - just `git push`.
It has very, very good code review UX and allows meaningful and in-depth back-and-forth during a code review, without losing context or having to re-review the entire diff. Once you're past the initial learning curve, it is blissful.
Gerrit is open source and it's what Google uses for many of their public projects such as Chromium and Android, and it is quite easy to self-host. It is entirely built on JGit and even stores code reviews as Git commits alongside the repositories.
If you want to give it a try - there's a well-maintained public instance, Gerrithub[3], operated by Gerritforge. Many open source projects use it.
[1]: https://github.com/ejoffe/spr
[2]: https://www.gerritcodereview.com/
[3]: https://gerrithub.io
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I (kind of) killed Mercurial at Mozilla
The CLI doesn't help with stacked commits, though. There's tools like spr[1] but none of them are anywhere as pleasant to use as Gerrit (or Phabricator, I guess).
[1]: https://github.com/ejoffe/spr
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GitHub's Down
Haven't tried this one but Reviewable and Graphite. They're all very nice and yours looks nice also. The problem with all these third party SaaS-es on top of GitHub:
- You have to trust a random (no offense meant!) SaaS company with wide-ranging access to your repository.
- GitHub API rate limits end up causing issues sooner or later. For instance, Reviewable would randomly break and ask you to add more admin users so it could load balance API requests across multiple accounts!
- Likewise, you are still forced into the PR model and things that are trivial in Gerrit, like stacked diffs, are still hard. spr helps[1], but at that point you are piling workarounds on top of workarounds, might as well use a tool that supports the workflow natively...
[1]: https://github.com/ejoffe/spr
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PR that converts the TypeScript repo from namespaces to modules
But, probably better to use https://github.com/ejoffe/spr (which I found many months after writing the create-stack script). Though, in this particular PR's case, it would have been a lot of work to preserve the commit IDs in the commit messages thanks to its generated nature; if you have a stack produced by hand, it'd work a lot better because a human is editing the PR and its description.
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Git-stack: Stacked branch management for Git
Another tool to look out for: https://github.com/ejoffe/spr
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Code Review Decision Fatigue
I've heard good things from our customers about spr for GitHub (https://github.com/ejoffe/spr). It extends git with useful commands and hooks directly into GitHub PRs. We'll be adding some direct support for the tool in Reviewable shortly.
- Simple and straight forward helper to stack pull requests.
- If you love the Gerrit style workflow, checkout SPR, a simple tool to stack pull requests and achieve Gerrit like flow on GitHub without any server side scripts or bots.
- If you love the Gerrit style workflow, checkout SPR, a simple tool to stack pull requests and achieve Gerrit like flow on GitHub without an server side changes of bots.
lazygit
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Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?
Sounds like something comparable to LazyGit. https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit
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Why Don't I Like Git More?
I've started to en ntegrate lazygit into my workflow.
It's quite easy to work with and I use git in a more powerfull way. My main problem is finding the way in all hotkeys.
https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit?tab=readme-ov-file#...
- Lazygit Release v0.41.0
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How to be good at Open Source 🧑‍💻🌏
I recently did this with lazygit, a terminal-based git client I use every day. I wanted to add co-authors to commits, which is handy for pair programming at Incubyte
- Lazygit v0.41
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Easy Access to Terminal Commands in Neovim using FTerm
The last thing you really need is a common set of tools that you want fingertip access to. I really commonly use LazyGit and K9s in my day job so those are the tools I will show off in this article.
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Level Up Your Dev Workflow: Conquer Web Development with a Blazing Fast Neovim Setup (Part 1)
lazygit (optional)
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Yozora: Linux Configurator
gl is a lazygit extended command, fist refreshes the deleted remote branches and then opens lazygit.
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5 Developer CLI Essentials
3. lazygit
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Ask HN: Can we do better than Git for version control?
Yes, but due to its simplicity + extensibility + widespread adoption, I wouldn’t be surprised if we’re still using Git 100+ years from now.
The current trend (most popular and IMO likely to succeed) is to make tools (“layers”) which work on top of Git, like more intuitive UI/patterns (https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit, https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless) and smart merge resolvers (https://github.com/Symbolk/IntelliMerge, https://docs.plasticscm.com/semanticmerge/how-to-configure/s...). Git it so flexible, even things that it handles terribly by default, it handles
What are some alternatives?
git-stack - Stacked branch management for Git
gitui - Blazing 💥 fast terminal-ui for git written in rust 🦀
typeformer - A typescript code terraformer
tig - Text-mode interface for git
acyl - Testing Environments On Demand
vim-fugitive - fugitive.vim: A Git wrapper so awesome, it should be illegal
jj - A Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful
magit - It's Magit! A Git Porcelain inside Emacs.
soft-serve - The mighty, self-hostable Git server for the command line🍦
diffview.nvim - Single tabpage interface for easily cycling through diffs for all modified files for any git rev.
cli - GitHub’s official command line tool
neogit - An interactive and powerful Git interface for Neovim, inspired by Magit