git-stack

That was very in depth! As far as Pijul as a tool goes, I'm not seeing a git compatibility layer? So I think it's a neat project, but I probably won't try it because nearly all code is rooted squarely in git. Even if Pijul is perfect, you'd need to convince everyone else to use it. Nevertheless, the increased interest in moving to patch based workflows from branch based ones is great. There's a lot of similar tools here (https://github.com/gitext-rs/git-stack/blob/main/docs/compar...) which I refer to infrequently. Personally my favorite tool for living-with-the-reality-that-is-branches is git-machete (https://github.com/VirtusLab/git-machete).

> Probably some arcane git magic to (interactively) rebase branch There is not really a command for that yet, short of adding a bunch of `exec` steps to your interactive rebase manually. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32217204 for an upcoming command. You might enjoy using https://github.com/gitext-rs/git-stack, which specifically tries to let you manage stacked branches locally while not exposing tons of PRs to your coworkers. git-branchless itself also lets you manage stacked branches in various ways. For example, you can do `git checkout <branch>`, `git commit --amend`, and then `git restack` to rebase all the descendant branches sensibly. You can use it on the local side of things only and then use Github PRs as normal.

You might be interested in https://github.com/gitext-rs/git-stack, which perfectly implements your workflow where you only put up one PR but continue to work locally on the next commits. > ppl go dark for a month building this whole new world I think this isn't specific to stacking PRs. You can put 100 commits in a PR and submit it at once, or you can make 100 PRs and submit them all at once, and have the same problems either way. Ideally, you put up your first few commits or PRs early so that they can get reviewed.

git-stack [0] tries to do that. I also maintain a list of related tools, some of which do similar [1]. [0] https://github.com/gitext-rs/git-stack [1] https://github.com/gitext-rs/git-stack/blob/main/docs/compar...

Checkout https://github.com/gitext-rs/git-stack/blob/main/docs/compar... (note, the tool hosting this page is not included but as the author). As the author of git stack, with all relevant biases, I recommend - git stack for automating what you are already doing - git branchless for more power at the risk of incombatibilities because its only as good as the data fed to git hooks - jj if your open to something very different