| ▲ | js2 8 hours ago |
| > stacked diff workflow pioneered by Phabricator Ahem, pioneered by gerrit. But actually, I'm almost certain even that wasn't original art. I think gerrit just brought it to git. https://www.gerritcodereview.com/about.html |
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| ▲ | sunshowers 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| To my knowledge, stacked diffs were first done in the Linux kernel as stacks of patches sent over email. From there they spread to Google and Facebook. (Source: I worked on Facebook's source control team from 2012-2018 and did a lot of work to enable stacked diffs there.) |
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| ▲ | js2 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Right, I was thinking from a web-based UI. The "pull request" term is from git (AFAIK), but git itself was built to accommodate the earlier concept of mailing patches around. (Source: I've been using version control since RCS/SCCS days and contributed here and there to git in its infancy. Also an early user/contributor to Gerrit.) | |
| ▲ | hokumguru 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Congrats and thank you. You helped build one of the best devex experiences I've ever had the pleasure of working with :) | |
| ▲ | p-e-w 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | At some point, a derivative idea becomes so different from the original one that it’s a novel idea in essence. Just like SMS is ultimately a derivative of cuneiform tablets, and yet it isn’t in any meaningful sense. | | |
| ▲ | sunshowers 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I don't think mailing stacks of patches is that different? As someone who built this stuff it was pretty obvious to me that web-based patch stack management was a relatively small evolution over mailing lists. Tools like patchwork bridged the gap initially, and we were quite familiar with them. | |
| ▲ | monster_truck 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Imagine gettting a cuneiform tablet by courier telling you that you have unpaid parking tickets in a state you've never driven in |
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| ▲ | pabs3 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Gerrit was forked from Rietveld. Not sure if Rietveld or Gerrit are better though. https://github.com/rietveld-codereview/rietveld
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rietveld_(software)
https://codereview.appspot.com/ |
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