This is one of the strengths I appreciate about graphite which is that the PRs are always on the preceding branch but it knows that when you go to merge it should actually really retarget and merge against main.
Yeah – the key thing here is that there is work to be done on the server, so JJ likely either needs its own forge or a GitHub App that handles managing PRs for each JJ commit.
I'm a huge fan of the JJ paradigm – this is something I'd love for us to be able to do in the future once one or both of: - we have more bandwidth to go down this road - JJ is popular enough that its worthwhile for us to do
That said I'd also love to see if anyone in the community comes up with an elegant GH app for this!!
Ironic, since if there are a bunch of people in my boat, the lack of us in jj's user base will make it that much harder for jj to cross the "popular enough to be worth supporting" threshold.
There is definitely room for an improved forge experience that takes advantage of the additional powers of jj, but it's no worse an experience using them today than it is with git.
Basically if I have five stacked PRs, and the newest four get an approval, I want everything to stay in place no merges. Then when the base (oldest) PR gets approved, I’d like the PRs to all get merged, separately , one after the other, without further interaction from me.
Does GitHub’s merge queue implementation support that?
cf. https://jj-vcs.github.io/jj/latest/cli-reference/#jj-paralle...
As the parents of M are merged, I rebase the whole stack. When M has a single parent left, I abandon M and retarget the PR to merge R into that parent.
It requires a little babysitting, but the PR shows the diff I want it to.
Gitpatch attempts to build a Git hosting with native support for patches and commit-based review system, where each commit is its own patch. It's also smart to handle force pushes and can update or reorder patches as needed.
Do you have any plans to allow for self-hosting?
yeah, I plan to release it under AGPL at some point when it’s more complete. Currently it still needs more work. But no timeline yet.
