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Unrelated question but why don't more people use Gerrit instead of Gitlab or Github? To me Gerrit flow makes the most sense.
by pdsOne 6y ago
Unrelated question but why don't more people use Gerrit instead of Gitlab or Github? To me Gerrit flow makes the most sense.
- brandmeyer 6y agoSpeaking only for myself: Because Gerrit's unit of review is a single commit instead of a branch. Commits are units of change, but the unit of work and review is almost always a series of related changes. Just because the changes are individually atomic (testable, cherry-pickable, etc) doesn't mean that I want to review them that way. The typical flow is for an engineer to produce a cluster of inter-related changes that motivate and rationalize each other. Reviewing such a chunk in Gerrit is a PITA. It breaks up the flow of discussion and encourages a myopic perspective on the work.