Ask HN: What are the best tools for code reviews?

Post by adtac » Fri, Nov 17, 2017, 5:24 PM UTC

arjun27 wrote: post #30

adtac wrote: post #16

https://gitmate.io - Gitmate is made by a friend of mine and it's pretty good. It uses coala [1] underneath (coala is a unified static code analysis tool that supports 100+ languages; I'm a maintainer, so shoot me any questions you might have about coala). Gitmate is much more than just static code analysis and review suggestions. It supports automatic issue triaging, rebases, labeling, identifying human reviewers, a…

Screenshot looks a lot like what danger.systems provides. How is issue triaging related to code reviews? Trying to imagine how that is useful

Post by zwily » Fri, Nov 17, 2017, 5:29 PM UTC

chrisjshull wrote: post #23

matttproud wrote: post #4

Gerrit: https://www.gerritcodereview.com . Hands-down.

I’d warn against Gerrit. From the best my team has been able to figure out, Gerrit encourages a development flow that breaks the golden rule of rebase and treats all pushes as force pushes. The result is that in a collaborative environment your changes are occasionally reset by someone else pushing changes. (To my eye Gerrit seems like it was written by people who wanted git to work like svn.)

Post by arjun27 » Fri, Nov 17, 2017, 5:30 PM UTC

Post by Sir_Cmpwn » Fri, Nov 17, 2017, 5:40 PM UTC

Post by khazhou » Fri, Nov 17, 2017, 5:48 PM UTC

chrisjshull wrote: post #23

matttproud wrote: post #4

Gerrit: https://www.gerritcodereview.com . Hands-down.

I’d warn against Gerrit. From the best my team has been able to figure out, Gerrit encourages a development flow that breaks the golden rule of rebase and treats all pushes as force pushes. The result is that in a collaborative environment your changes are occasionally reset by someone else pushing changes. (To my eye Gerrit seems like it was written by people who wanted git to work like svn.)