Reviewers mostly praise Graphite for making stacked pull requests practical on GitHub, helping teams break large changes into smaller reviews, stay unblocked, and move faster with more confidence. Users repeatedly highlight the ergonomic CLI, easy GitHub setup, auto-restacking and rebasing, and a polished UI and keyboard-driven review flow. A few also say it works well even for ordinary PRs, not just stacks. The main caveats are a somewhat steep learning curve and some dislike of the diff view, especially the comment panel layout.

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developer productivity (14)

stacked diffs (12)

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fast code review (7)

UI experience (6)

team collaboration (5)

small pull requests (4)

auto-restacking (3)

community engagement (2)

incremental history (2)

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steep learning curve (2)

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•29 reviews

Our engineering team leans on Graphite Reviewer for pull request reviews. It doesn’t replace a human reviewer, but will catch a few things a week that our human reviewers miss. And the Graphite reviewer usually runs before a human reviewer gets to the pull request. Which is nice for saving expensive, human time. On an engineering team, for every hour of code writing, there are 10 hours of code fixing and maintenance. Graphite is pretty key for us to reducing that fixing and maintenance time. Another nifty thing about Graphite is pull request stacking. Our engineering team spans 14 timezones at Product Hunt. It’s not unusual for someone to crank out a bunch of work while the rest of the team is asleep. Pull request stacking is quite helpful for smoothing out that workflow.

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stacked diffs (12)developer productivity (14)fast code review (7)

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Orbital

•1 review

I don't think I've ever posted on a ProductHunt launch except ones I've been involved in or know the makers personally, but I happily make an exception for Graphite. I run `gt rs && gt sr && gt ss` every time I see a new merge to main, automatically rebasing all my work on top of any other changes, so I never have any big conflicts to deal with, and can continue to ship smaller PRs. Everyone who uses it where I work loves it, including some ex-Facebook folks who miss their stacked diffs from Phabricator. It's not an exaggeration to say that using Graphite makes our codebase better, PRs easier and saves me tonnes of time. Congratulations to the team and I wish you every success!

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stacked diffs (12)small pull requests (4)CLI experience (8)developer productivity (14)auto-restacking (3)

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VCWiz

•1 review

Using Graphite totally changed how we did collaboration at @symops. Stacked diffs and all the associated tooling was always the one thing I missed from big tech. No more!! My favorite part is I don't even need my whole team to be using it to see the benefit (tho that of course helps).

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team collaboration (5)stacked diffs (12)

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•1 review

I started using Graphite in 2021 and I've never gone back! I purely use Graphite for all my branch management and PR needs. The auto-restacking of your branches is actually so clutch. I used to have to manually rebase my branches when I would create (what my previous team called "pancakes", which I guess are a form of stacks 🤔) and it was always a painful experience. Now I just do a `gt sync --restack` and everything works magically. I'll never go back to the Dark Ages. 10/10 would recommend! 🚀

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CLI experience (8)auto-restacking (3)

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25 views2yr ago

•6 reviews

I can't say enough positive things about Graphite. It keeps me and my team unblocked by decoupling work from reviews, which means our reviews are more thorough, and we're not bugging each other for reviews constantly, breaking flow. Their community Slack is active and the team is super responsive to feedback. Honestly, they're doing everything right. Graphite has saved me literal days of time over the last year, and I'm so happy it's finally out of beta for the world to see.

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team collaboration (5)community engagement (2)responsive support (2)developer productivity (14)

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•1 review

I've been using this for the past year and it's taken so much pain out of fast trunk-based development. No longer do I have to make the choice between shipping massive PRs or struggling with small ones, now I can write it once, get it simply chunked up and the many small changes are easier to review, then GT rebases and merges automatically. Slightly steep learning curve is SO worth it, loads of us on the team are big advocates!

•1 review

The "stacking" feature for code reviews keeps everything moving smoothly and efficiently. Integrating it with my GitHub account was effortless. It's a game-changer for anyone looking to ship code faster and stay unblocked during reviews

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GitHub integration (1)stacked diffs (12)developer productivity (14)fast code review (7)

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2yr ago