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spent some time looking at this last week and was very unimpressed. stacked diffs/patch series don't make nearly as much sense with a new commit + merge workflow as they do with an amend + rebase workflow. jj compat is alao dubious. going to stick with spr

if you were designing a stacked workflow from first principles, you would focus on atomic/bisectable commits as the unit of work, with interdiffs between versions to guide you. Basically what Gerrit, Phab and numerous other tools do. The lack of engagement with prior art continues to be frustrating

Also, forcing people to name every branch is unpleasant at best

they were looking for feedback on hacker news and I couldn't help it

I've mostly just given up at this point. You can do it the right way (amend + rebase) on GitHub but so painful to use that way that it doesn't feel worth it. Not to mention that the communication problems that come from the lack of imagination/experience with good review systems.

spr turns local amends + rebases into remote new commits + merges, fwiw. it's the only way I can retain my sanity working on github

born to rebase, forced to merge

Gerrit is a strong team retention tool.