From: fungi@yuggoth.org 
  
 On 2025-08-16 12:42:53 -0700 (-0700), Russ Allbery wrote: 
 [...] 
 >That said, GitHub at least has gotten a lot better over the years. In 
 >particular, they added incremental reviews (only showing you the bits that 
 >have changed since your previous review), commit-by-commit review (or 
 >maybe that's always been there and I just figured out how to find it), and 
 >merge queues, which get pretty close to the UI experience that I liked 
 >with Gerrit. 
 [...] 
  
 The more fundamental difference with Gerrit's approach, for me, is 
 that you're proposing and revising a patch or series of patches and 
 adjusting it until it appears the way you and reviewers want it to 
 appear in the target branch's history. Gerrit supplies tooling 
 necessary for comparing between arbitrary revisions of a patch, so 
 there's no need to heap on fixes in subsequent commits, you just 
 revise the commit (or series of related commits) repeatedly until 
 it's in good enough shape to be merged. 
  
 This is essentially the workflow used on LKML as well, but with a 
 stateful service and Git interface rather than a mailing list full 
 of threads with attachments. By comparison, I find the common GitHub 
 and GitLab PR/MR workflows extremely frustrating in the way that 
 they fail to preserve state or allow fluid reviewer discussion 
 across revisions (at least GitHub has finally stopped vanishing all 
 the comments when you rebase!), but I understand it's all a matter 
 of personal preference and what sorts of workflows you get 
 accustomed to. 
  
 For me, doing code review long before GitHub existed, it has always 
 seemed like a social media platform with code hosting bolted on, 
 struggling to catch up with the features of review-oriented 
 platforms. Sadly, GitLab copied much of GitHub's design mistakes for 
 the sake of user familiarity/acquisition. 
 -- 
 Jeremy Stanley 
  
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