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Excited to see the progress here on the public launch! Stacking was a meaningful time-saving as a FAANG sw eng. Excited to see stacking grow within the great tech community
Agreed! We think this is a huge performance boost and why we think any engineer should benefit from stacking!
I don't understand how this is a difference between stacked diffs and feature branches. Github allows you to use feature branches. I can see there might be some convenience with tooling
tl;dr the difference is a stack is merged partially as it's built out (that reduces merge conflicts, allows you to revert individual parts as found) and a feature branch is long-lived. Hope that helps :)
I've been using this for a few months now, and it's been an absolute joy to use. One thing that's been a bit annoying: my org enforces signed commits, and when you merge a stack, they sometimes rebase commits internally and lose the code signing, so you end up with an error to merge the rest of the stack. Aside from that, working with stacks has been great!
Hey @njaremko, Thank you for using Graphite and your support. This is something we're aware of and current thinking around. Question, if we were to support this by signing commits: Would you want the commit to be signed by the Graphite GitHub App? Or would you prefer for it to be signed by Graphite on behalf of you? Or some other option that we haven't considered? -Xiulung (UX @ Graphite)
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Hey @njaremko, Thank you for using Graphite and your support. This is something we're aware of and current thinking around. Question, if we were to support this by signing commits: Would you want the commit to be signed by the Graphite GitHub App? Or would you prefer for it to be signed by Graphite on behalf of you? Or some other option that we haven't considered? -Xiulung (UX @ Graphite)
I think letting me give you a gpg private key and you sign commits with that would be ideal. I'm not sure how the app signing commits would work, since it needs to be signed by a member of our org I believe?
I don't understand how this is a difference between stacked diffs and feature branches. Github allows you to use feature branches. I can see there might be some convenience with tooling
A lot of the benefits remind me of other dag-based workflows, like CI, data pipelines, or build systems. Does that make sense?
Hey Tomas, great to meet you a few months ago in NYC, congrats on the show HN. Graphite is a great tool, hope you're doing well!