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I use graphite for stacked pr management. Any good reason to make the switch to stacklane?

I use Graphite at {{ day job }} and it's pretty good. I strongly dislike having to use their git wrapper CLI `gt` though. git does already support this out of the box.

So instead, this uses git primitives and just drops that handy comment in Github to visualize the stack.

I work on the Graphite CLI – curious what you don't like about it and what your flow with raw Git is – I assume you're mostly using `--update-refs`?

Hey! Mostly just rebase out of habit actually, but I've been exploring --update-refs recently.

Two things come to mind that I don't love about `gt`:

- the philosophy of "every commit is a PR" falls apart sometimes. Sometimes I want to logically separate commits in a PR—but not every commit passes CI. This makes it easier to review. Or call out optional changes that can easily be dropped.

- It broke my workflow in a few ways. The one thing I notice the most is that I like to "pop" a commit into staged changes and make edits. So I can easily see a diff of what I'm editing. I expected `gt modify` to do this. So instead I git reset --soft, commit, and `gt submit`

Thanks for the comment :)

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