I agree with the argument laid out here. Series of small diffs with versions is a fantastic clean model.
When creating Graphite on top of GitHub, we chose to only support rebase model (despite the chaos that creates in GitHub timeline events). We also added “versions” support, which wasn’t too hard because GitHub holds on to old commits even if you force push over them.
A lot of what we try to build is the exact ideas this author is championing, in a way that’s compatible on top of GitHub. My dream is us and others help usher Eng back towards the patterns Phabricator and Gerrit helped start :)
When creating Graphite on top of GitHub, we chose to only support rebase model (despite the chaos that creates in GitHub timeline events). We also added “versions” support, which wasn’t too hard because GitHub holds on to old commits even if you force push over them.
A lot of what we try to build is the exact ideas this author is championing, in a way that’s compatible on top of GitHub. My dream is us and others help usher Eng back towards the patterns Phabricator and Gerrit helped start :)