[bsimpson]

I use GitHub because that's where PRs go, but I've never liked their PR model. I much prefer the Phabricator/Gerrit ability to consider each commit independently (that is, have a personal branch 5 commits ahead of HEAD, and be able to send PRs for each without having them squashed).

I wonder if federation will also bring more diversity into the actual process. Maybe there will be hosts that let you use that Phabricator model.

I also wonder how this all gets paid for. Does it take pockets as deep as Microsoft's to keep npm/GitHub afloat? Will there be a free, open-source commons on other forges?

[Twisell]

Unless I misunderstood your workflow Forgejo Agit approach mentioned in OP might already cover that.

You can push any ref not necessarily HEAD. So as long as you send commit in order from a rebase on main it should be ok unless I got something wrong from the doc?

https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/user/agit-support/

[JoshTriplett]

Personally, I'd like to go the other way: not just that PRs are the unit of contribution, but that rebased PRs are a first-class concept and versioning of the changes between entire PRs is a critical thing to track.

[viraptor]

This is coming to GH soonish. Some clunky alpha version of this UI has been shared on the bad social site. (First class rebasing / stacked PRs)

[debugnik]

> and be able to send PRs for each without having them squashed

Can't you branch off from their head and cherry-pick your commits?

[bsimpson]

That's effectively what I do. I have my dev branch, and then I make separate branches for each PR with just the commit in it. Works well enough so long as the commits are independent, but it's still a pain in the ass to manage.