[nhaehnle]

One related aspect that the article doesn't go into too much is that there is a tension in the size of the unit of code review: there are reasons for reviewing big chunks at once, but also reasons for reviewing individual changes that are as small as possible. I've gone into more detail on this in the past.[0]

Stacked diffs make that possible because you can review either individual commits or an entire stack at once.

The irony is that this is largely the way that Linux kernel development works -- and the Linux kernel was the first user of Git! Most projects who later adopted Git seem to have never learned this lesson that was there from the beginning, and have since been reinventing wheels.

[0] http://nhaehnle.blogspot.com/2020/06/they-want-to-be-small-t...

[codesuki]

Great post!