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by jen20 439 days ago
By far my biggest complaint about the GitHub pull request model right now is that it doesn't treat the eventual commit message of a squashed commit (or even independent commits that will be rebased on the target) as part of the review process, like Gerrit does. I can't believe I'm the only person that is upset by this!
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If this is something you're interested in, you may want to try the patch-based review system that we recently launched for GitButler: https://blog.gitbutler.com/gitbutlers-new-patch-based-code-r...
This does look interesting! I’ll take a closer look.
You are not alone. Coming from Gerrit myself, I hate that GitHub does not allow for commenting on the commit message itself. Neither does Gitlab.

Also, in a PR, I find that people just switch to Files Changed, disregarding the sequence of the commits involved.

This intentional de-emphasis of the importance of commit messages and the individual commits leads to lower quality of the git history of the codebase.