On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 4:39 AM, Petr Bena <benapetr@gmail.com> wrote:

Good job, you aren't the only one. Huggle team is using it for quite
some time. To be honest I still feel that github is far superior to
our gerrit installation and don't really understand why we don't use
it for other projects too.

GitHub is focused on small projects; for a project with lots of patches and committers it is problematic in many ways:

* poor repository management (fun fact: GitHub does not even log force pushes, much less provides any ability to undo them)

* noisy commit histories due to poor support of amend-based workflows, and also because poor message generation of the editing interface (Linus wrote a famous rant on that)

* no way to mark patches which depend on each other

* diff view works poorly for large patches

* CR interface works poorly for large patches (no way to write draft comments so you need to do two passes; discussions can be marked as obsolete by unrelated code changes in their vicinity)

* hard to keep track of cherry-picks