It's very buggy. My stacks frequently just hang and become unmergeable.
It frequently gets confused about its state and "gt sync" thinks that the upstream has changed even when it hasn't.
Because of the three states involved (local, GitHub, and Graphite), there is a lot of "syncing". "gt submit", "gt track", "gt untrack", "gt sync" are all needed constantly, which adds mental overhead over the usual git pull/push.
You end up with a lot of force-push churn in the GitHub PR activity when re-stacking. In fact, I dread syncing anything because in 6-PR stack it could cause an avalanche of force-pushes. This is of course a side effect of the GitHub PRs model and their rebase approach.
The web UI is pretty terrible. It's full of AI crap, and there's a "meme library". It kind of seems like they want people to live in their app, taking over from GitHub. But they don't really offer a reason whatsoever to go to graphite.dev instead of GitHub. Graphite doesn't really help the review process.
They really want you to sell you their merge queue product.
In short, when it works it's fine. It's nice to do a series of PRs and then watch as it merges them. But it's not a tool I enjoy using, for the above reasons.
I'd prefer a lightweight tool that just managed PRs and then did the merge magic. Graphite just wants to be too much.
It's very buggy. My stacks frequently just hang and become unmergeable.
It frequently gets confused about its state and "gt sync" thinks that the upstream has changed even when it hasn't.
Because of the three states involved (local, GitHub, and Graphite), there is a lot of "syncing". "gt submit", "gt track", "gt untrack", "gt sync" are all needed constantly, which adds mental overhead over the usual git pull/push.
You end up with a lot of force-push churn in the GitHub PR activity when re-stacking. In fact, I dread syncing anything because in 6-PR stack it could cause an avalanche of force-pushes. This is of course a side effect of the GitHub PRs model and their rebase approach.
The web UI is pretty terrible. It's full of AI crap, and there's a "meme library". It kind of seems like they want people to live in their app, taking over from GitHub. But they don't really offer a reason whatsoever to go to graphite.dev instead of GitHub. Graphite doesn't really help the review process.
They really want you to sell you their merge queue product.
In short, when it works it's fine. It's nice to do a series of PRs and then watch as it merges them. But it's not a tool I enjoy using, for the above reasons.
I'd prefer a lightweight tool that just managed PRs and then did the merge magic. Graphite just wants to be too much.