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by Groxx 2 days ago
Mostly. You can't do "show me this commit in the stack before and after the force push" though iirc. And you can't comment on the derived diff, even though that's what you'll be reading during re-review to see what changed.

GitHub constantly feels like features get requested with a one-sentence description, and then people who have never used any other major code review systems go build it without any further assistance or feedback, and eventually it just escapes containment and nobody tells the authors that there's a gigantic pile of bug feedback threads until almost a year later. Ten things get fixed, then another feature breaks out and focus shifts.
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sunshowers 2 days ago
The seeming lack of engagement with prior art is so frustrating.
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ahoka 1 day ago
I think it's a very Microsoft thing. It's a parallel evolution of software branching from the microcomputer era.
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sunshowers 1 day ago
GitHub has a chance to get a generation of developers on to better coding practices. LLMs make it more feasible than ever to maintain high-quality patch series/stacked diffs — they can take care of all the mundane things like rebase conflicts for you. If I were in charge I would take this responsibility very seriously.

I guess the next best thing would be to port spr to this. (Probably time to start looking at this to be honest!) This makes me quite sad.

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Degorath 1 day ago
Not sure if it makes you feel better, but it seems there's at least a few startups trying to get a jujutsu-native forge going, by people who have seen and used the way Google's (and other big tech's) systems work.
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sunshowers 1 day ago
Indeed, and I happened to have been part of the creation story for one of them :) https://lobste.rs/s/ghdv6w/i_see_future_jj#c_nx6flj (not otherwise affiliated, though)
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Degorath 20 hours ago
That's really cool! I tried getting on board with ERSC, but the timezone difference proved too much :(. At least it gave me the kick to try and build my own company, though!
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Groxx 1 day ago
It was definitely also the case before Microsoft, but I can't imagine it has improved since the acquisition. I try to avoid the site nowadays, it's randomly extremely slow and I would much rather spend my energy elsewhere anyway.
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