> Again, you're off on a tangent talking about the Github review UI and not git branching strategies.
> I use it every day to manage large PRs on a large project, and it's fine.
I feel like you're becoming borderline disingenuous here. I demonstrated how Github is not fine, it's actually quite deficient, regardless of your branching strategy. The title of TFA is literally "Stacked Diffs versus Pull Requests". Here's the second line of TFA:
"People who have never used it and only use Pull Requests with GitHub/GitLabs generally don’t understand what the fuss is all about."
I'm beginning to believe you're those people.
> Pick the tools that work for you, adapt to the ones that work for your codevelopers, and don't start fights. Calling someone else's tool garbage helps nothing but your upvote count.
I'm not looking to pick a fight here, I'm honestly not sure why any sane person would defend the Github PR workflow. Beyond "it exists" it really doesn't have much going for it.
I call it Garbage because that's how I see it. And I hope others see it that way too. And I hope that we as an industry work to build tools that are not Garbage and I hope that those folks mentioned in the article learn to use and experience other tools and realize there is A Better Way to do things. We don't all have to put up with mediocre software.
If I see a friend eating literal garbage, I would tell them "hey, you're eating literal garbage, maybe you should stop" and not just keep it to myself.
> I use it every day to manage large PRs on a large project, and it's fine.
I feel like you're becoming borderline disingenuous here. I demonstrated how Github is not fine, it's actually quite deficient, regardless of your branching strategy. The title of TFA is literally "Stacked Diffs versus Pull Requests". Here's the second line of TFA:
"People who have never used it and only use Pull Requests with GitHub/GitLabs generally don’t understand what the fuss is all about."
I'm beginning to believe you're those people.
> Pick the tools that work for you, adapt to the ones that work for your codevelopers, and don't start fights. Calling someone else's tool garbage helps nothing but your upvote count.
I'm not looking to pick a fight here, I'm honestly not sure why any sane person would defend the Github PR workflow. Beyond "it exists" it really doesn't have much going for it.
I call it Garbage because that's how I see it. And I hope others see it that way too. And I hope that we as an industry work to build tools that are not Garbage and I hope that those folks mentioned in the article learn to use and experience other tools and realize there is A Better Way to do things. We don't all have to put up with mediocre software.
If I see a friend eating literal garbage, I would tell them "hey, you're eating literal garbage, maybe you should stop" and not just keep it to myself.