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Re:I (kind of) killed Mercurial at Mozilla by anyonecancode on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @05:37PM (#38371459)
From the second article, a minor point but possibly helpful to other here, he contrasts doing everything in the terminal with stacked commits vs going to the Github UI. If people aren't aware, Github offers a cli tool[1]. I've been using it for a few months now and am finding it does make me more productive -- it's nice to be able to open up a PR directly from my terminal. I do still use the GH UI for a lot of things, but I'll often at least start in the terminal, and it also makes the transition from terminal to browser easy as many commands support the `--web` flag open up the right page for you (eg `gh repo view --web`).

[1] https://cli.github.com/

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Re:I (kind of) killed Mercurial at Mozilla by lima on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @05:53PM (#38371691)
The CLI doesn't help with stacked commits, though. There's tools like spr[1] but none of them are anywhere as pleasant to use as Gerrit (or Phabricator, I guess).

[1]: https://github.com/ejoffe/spr

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Re:I (kind of) killed Mercurial at Mozilla by anyonecancode on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @08:25PM (#38373343)
It doesn't -- hence my noting the GH cli as a minor point. It's a tool I've personally found helped increase my productivity, so just wanted to share as others may find it useful too.
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