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The right way to use git

Free yourself from the constraints, isolation, & limitations of feature branches & join the revolution of developing & shipping software faster with small pull requests using Git Patch Stack.

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In Action

No branches? No problem.

Get a taste for the Git Patch Stack workflow, the tooling, and what it might feel like to join the revolution of stacking patches rather than making and managing branches.

$ gps ls list your current stack of patches & patch series

Develop faster

Helping you make smaller pull requests

Build small, logical, buildable, testable, releasable, patches while supporting pre-commit peer review via the tools everyone is used to (GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab, etc).

List

gps list (ls)

List out all the patches in your current stack along with their associated states.

Create Patch Series

gps branch (b)

Create a patch series from a consecutive sequence of patches in your stack.

Refine Patches

gps rebase

Refine patches iteratively as we prepare our patches for review.

Pull

gps pull

Pull git history from upstream and rebase your stack on top of the latest.

Request Review

gps request-review (rr)

Request review of a specific patch in your patch stack.

Integrate

gps integrate (int)

Integrate your reviewed and approved patch into upstream.

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Learn

Helpful Resources

Need some help? Or maybe you just want some deeper insights into why Git Patch Stack is the way it is and how best to use it. Well, check out some of these helpful resources.

Article

Journey to Small Pull Requests

This article provides great background to our thought process and the exploration that we followed to find a workflow to help make and manage smaller pull requests. This also happens to be the back story for Git Patch Stack as it is the tool we invented to help facilitate this workflow.
Drew De Ponte

Drew De Ponte

16 min read

Video

Git Patch Stack - Add a Patch

This is a video and transcript going through the process of how you add a patch to your patch stack.
Drew De Ponte

Drew De Ponte

5 min watch

Article

How we should be using Git

A deep dive into how we should be using Git and how the Git Patch Stack workflow and command line tool can better help us do that. This includes detailed examples and walkthroughs as well as provides some context.
Drew De Ponte

Drew De Ponte

11 min read

Community support

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Have questions, suggestions, etc. Don't hesitate to let us know. Learning from our users and understanding all of their use cases is the only way we can improve Git Patch Stack beyond our own usecases.

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