It's a tool just like the forge is. I think of these things more as building blocks to put your desired workflow together. I doubt forges will ever handle refor

It's a tool just like the forge is. I think of these things more as building blocks to put your desired workflow together. I doubt forges will ever handle reformatting, merging, or back porting how we want, so we'll always use something else additionally I think. We could also drop those patterns, but I foresee that meaning we don't have older supported releases instead. Even this tool is a "side job", but it did have focused development to get it off the ground. We were migrating from a combo of patched Gerrit and gitosis with custom server side commands to implement these things before. In 2015, no forge was even close to having these things, we had to implement it ourselves. Neither Gitlab not GitHub had a good enough API then either, but we could patch and contribute to Gitlab at least. There are other workflow decisions made by Gitlab as well that I prefer too anyways.