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Someone without commit access can't push to the main repository on GitHub. They have to make a remote fork of every project where they contribute. Even with commit access, you manage remote branches yourself. It also can't properly handle rebasing proposed changes even in 2021.

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CI really doesn't work well there. The review interface is also really bad aside from getting completely screwed up by rebasing. They really should have adopted Change-Id and not been against the culture of requiring a sensible set of commits split up logically before applying.

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For a long time, they actually actively sabotaged the review interface if you used that approach instead of keeping the whole history of the feature branch. They took an opinionated approach which was against how Git was actually designed / intended to be used by the developers.

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I'm not saying that the privileges are an issue there but rather that the workflow is really horrible. One of the things I care about is bisecting working really well. I want totally linear history with no merges and every single commit should pass tests, not just HEAD of PR.

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GitHub just has a really painful workflow, where you accumulate endless cruft (obsolete old forks for each repository on your profile, all these old feature branches, etc.) which isn't cleanly separated (like Gerrit history) and it also doesn't preserve stuff properly.

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So, with Gerrit, it's designed around rebasing. It tracks each commit across rebases. It preserves the history of the changes across the rebases. You can look back at the old revisions and the review on them. It's properly preserved and presented, not horribly broken like GitHub.

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I guess I need to try to set up gerrit... I just hate how it looks... but I guess that’s shallow 🤣

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It doesn't look modern but once you're used to it, it has the information really nicely presented and it's ridiculously fast compared to something like GitHub or GitLab. I really appreciate how fast it is, not just the workflow and properly handling rebases + review history, etc.

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