[Flux159]

I think that good tooling is a necessity to do trunk based development well - not just CI/CD and testing on PRs, but also being able to have stacks of commits in multiple PRs before landing as a whole (from ghstack, Sapling, or Graphite).

Having worked at Facebook before where managing stacks of diffs was far better than GitHub, I wish that more of the improvements to the developer workflow could be open sourced beyond Sapling now that Phabricator is no longer supported.

[lima]

Stacking with Gerrit works beautifully. Can only recommend giving it a try!

[idlephysicist]

I agree with what you said but I'd further refine it by saying not just having testing and CI but actually having "high" test coverage and tests that actually test the code.

[ramraj07]

Which of those three tools works best on GitHub? Ideally without paying (not that I mind paying but it’s impossible to get the approval for some niche tool like this)

[Flux159]

I’ve used both Sapling cli & Graphite with github repos without having to pay anything.

They both have extensions for vscode as well that makes it easier to manage stacks.