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Re:Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab by js2 on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @02:55PM (#24922696)
It's been a while since I used it, but I guess the more important point is that it's a rebase-based workflow.

My memory was you had to force push your working branch to refs/for. Thank you for the correction.

I've actually setup and run instances of it as two companies, but as I say, it's been a while.

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Re:Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab by depressedpanda on Thursday October 29, 2020 @08:11AM (#24929631)
Yes, I very much agree: the rebase-based workflow is what makes Gerrit superior to all other systems I've tried (of which I find Github and Bitbucket particularly loathsome).

I felt I needed to correct you because with Gerrit you reserve the concept of force pushing for exceptional cases, which I think is the correct mental model. Force pushing should not be done frivolously.

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