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> I also pushed for breaking large changes into smaller commits, because it is impossible to do a thorough review otherwise.

I've found this to be key for both giving and receiving feedback. Even small breaking commits are better in a lot of cases because they invite feedback in a way that 1000+ lines don't.

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I miss Phabricator from my time at Meta so much, I made this to achieve a Phabricator-like stacked-commit experience via the git cli: https://pypi.org/project/stacksmith/

This looks really interesting. I've been using a similar tool called spr https://github.com/spacedentist/spr for the last six or so months at work. I really like the stacked diff/PR workflow. But spr has a lot of rough edges and im on the lookout for a better alternative.

Do you happen to know how your tool compares to spr? How production-ready is it?

I had checked out SPR, but found the workflow based around reordering history via interactive rebase unintuitive & clunky. That was the motivation behind building this on my own.

I have been using this for a few months now, and it has served me well! I haven't spent much (any) time marketing it, so haven't really had any feedback from other users yet. Feel free to check it out & lmk if you have any suggestions. It's also open source, so feed free to open issue/PR on Github

Breaking down the size of the change is truly important, otherwise it's easy to miss things and to also disregard them as little details when wanting to avoid blocking the whole change on a "small" thing (which may only seem small because the PR is now huge)

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