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Graphite
Company blog · graphite.dev/blogprogrammingai
Graphite is the company blog at graphite.dev, writing about programming and ai. Since 2021, 76 different Hacker News readers have linked it 177 times, most often “Graphite – Modern code review for fast-moving teams”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Graphite helps teams on GitHub deliver higher quality software, faster.
Most-linked posts?
- Graphite – Modern code review for fast-moving teams24 people · 25 mentions · first linked 2021-10-14
- Why Facebook doesn't use Git7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2024-03-07
- /6 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2021-08-08
- Claim: the ideal PR is 50 lines long6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2023-07-25
- BitKeeper and the Story of Git's Creation4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-05-24
- /careers3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-03-01
- Empirically supported code review best practices3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-12-21
- Your GitHub pull request workflow is slowing everyone down3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-12-06
- Every engineer should understand Git reflog3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-12-13
- Onboarding roulette: deleting our employee accounts daily3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-03-15
What Hacker News says?
> large monorepo features (allow user to view a slice of a repo) I am reminded of this discussion between fb devs and git devs from 13 yrs ago: https://public-inbox.org/git/CB5074CF.3AD7A%25joshua.redston... git has definitely made improvements since that thread, e.g.: https://graphite.dev/guides/git-monorepo#tools-and-strategie... but it could still be better for the truly gargantuan of code bases. Might not be wor…
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on “GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation”Submitted Stacked changes: how FB and Google engineers stay unblocked and ship faster as a story · 467 points
HN discussionI've felt like a broken record the past few weeks, but this. Authoring has never been the bottle neck, the same way my typing speed has never been the bottle neck. The bottle neck has been, and continues to be, code review. It was in our pitch deck 4 years ago; it's still there. For most companies, by default, it's a process that's synchronously blocked on another human. We need to either make it async (stacking) or…
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on “Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck”Submitted How GitHub replaced SourceForge as the dominant code hosting platform as a story · 176 points
HN discussionNeither GitHub nor GitLab quite hit the mark for me with regards to code review. Phabricator (RIP) was close IMO, with first class support for (1) seeing comments and code on one view and (2) supporting stacks which prevent mega changes. I've been working with some peers on a better code review tool since hearing about Phabricator shutting down: https://graphite.dev/ It syncs all data to GitHub while offering things…
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on “Gitlab from YC to IPO”Submitted Claim: the ideal PR is 50 lines long as a story · 84 points
HN discussionGraphite | Senior Software Engineer | NYC (Soho) | ONSITE | Full-time | $160k–$220k + Equity | https://graphite.dev Hi everyone! Graphite (Neo-backed company) is expanding our engineering team. We raised $20M from Andreessen Horowitz, the founder of GitHub, the founder of PagerDuty, and the creators of React. Our team is 20+ strong with prior experience at Meta, Google, Airbnb, Stripe, DoorDash, Square, and Datadog.…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)”Submitted How Google migrated billions of lines of code from Perforce to Piper as a story · 62 points
HN discussionWe tried manually rebasing too, before building Graphite. The challenge you face with manual rebasing is two parts: 1) If you update the bottom branch, you need to manually rebase each branch above it. That becomes brutal if your stack is >3 branches. 2) You cant perform a simple rebase-onto, because you'll copy all commits between the higher branch and trunk. You'd have to perform a three-way rebase, specifying the…
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on “Stacked changes: how FB and Google engineers stay unblocked and ship faster”Submitted Why Facebook doesn't use Git as a story · 53 points
HN discussionSome of the other blog posts and docs have some good deeper info: - CLI docs: https://docs.graphite.dev/guides/graphite-cli - Dashboard docs: https://docs.graphite.dev/guides/graphite-dashboard - Storing stack metadata in refs: https://graphite.dev/blog/post/y6ysWaplagKc8YEFzYfr - Tracing stacks of branches: https://graphite.dev/blog/post/hGn1nt8nFr5cMhvFJs87 - Lengthy conversations in the community slack :) https:/…
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on “Stacked changes: how FB and Google engineers stay unblocked and ship faster”Submitted The merge vs. rebase debate as a story · 52 points
HN discussionI’ve had a lot of success using https://graphite.dev/ . Been pretty easy to pick up and slots right into our usual GitHub workflow. I end up using the vscode extension to manage it. Anyone have opinions how jujutsu compares?
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on “Jujutsu for busy devs”Submitted Ship it: our $20M bet on developer productivity as a story · 46 points
HN discussionGraphite | Senior Software Engineer | NYC (Soho) | ONSITE | Full-time | $160k–$220k + Equity | https://graphite.dev Hi everyone! Graphite (Neo-backed company) is expanding our engineering team. We raised $20M from Andreessen Horowitz, the founder of GitHub, the founder of PagerDuty, and the creators of React. Our team is 20+ strong with prior experience at Meta, Google, Airbnb, Stripe, DoorDash, Square, and Datadog.…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)”Submitted Keeping code simple: moving fast by avoiding over-engineering as a story · 44 points
HN discussionAhh. It sounded like a repeat of https://graphite.dev/blog/why-facebook-doesnt-use-git but maybe it did happen for both companies! They’d obviously be having similar issues. Thanks :)
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on “I see a future in jj”Submitted The "Mom Test": asking good questions when everyone is lying to you as a story · 44 points
HN discussionGraphite | Mid-level & Senior Software Engineers| New York, NY in our Soho Headquarters | https://graphite.dev We’re building Graphite to help high-performing engineering teams run faster, cleaner code reviews. Our product is already used by some of the world’s best developers, and we’re just getting started! We're hiring experienced engineers across the stack, are are looking for people who: -Care deeply about code…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025)”Submitted Why AI will never replace human code review as a story · 40 points
HN discussionGraphite | Senior Software Engineer | NYC (Soho) | ONSITE | Full-time | $160k–$220k + Equity | https://graphite.dev Hi everyone! Graphite (Neo-backed company) is expanding our engineering team. We raised $20M from Andreessen Horowitz, the founder of GitHub, the founder of PagerDuty, and the creators of React. Our team is 20+ strong with prior experience at Meta, Google, Airbnb, Stripe, DoorDash, Square, and Datadog.…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)”Submitted Why large companies and fast-moving startups are banning merge commits as a story · 39 points
HN discussionGraphite | Mid-level & Senior Software Engineers| New York, NY in our Soho Headquarters | https://graphite.com We’re building Graphite to help high-performing engineering teams run faster, cleaner code reviews. Our product is already used by some of the world’s best developers, and we’re just getting started! We're hiring experienced engineers across the stack, are are looking for people who: -Care deeply about code…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)”Submitted Your GitHub pull request workflow is slowing everyone down as a story · 29 points
HN discussionOur team switched over to Graphite [1] 8 months ago now. Graphite involves a lot of "restacking" (i.e., rebasing for every commit/branch in a "stack"). No one on our team had used rebasing extensively before this, but it's hard to go back. Similar to the article, the benefits we see are: - Fast iteration with `gt m` (`git commit --amend`) and `gt s` (`git push --force`) - Using `gt restack` (`git rebase` on each par…
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on “I kind of like rebasing”Submitted The new developer toolchain for the age of AI as a story · 19 points
HN discussionNo, paying for GH doesn't make the code review experience any better. It's identical across public/cloud/enterprise GH. I do not know if GitLab does anything different; I've never used it in anger. I'd bet $10 the answer is "no, it's basically just the same as GitHub", though. If you want a service that adds stacking on top of GitHub, my conclusion after some research is that https://graphite.dev/ is the best option…
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on “Some of us like "interdiff" code review”Submitted BitKeeper and the Story of Git's Creation as a story · 18 points
HN discussionGraphite | Mid-level & Senior Software Engineers| New York, NY in our Soho Headquarters | https://graphite.dev We’re building Graphite to help high-performing engineering teams run faster, cleaner code reviews. Our product is already used by some of the world’s best developers, and we’re just getting started! We're hiring experienced engineers across the stack, are are looking for people who: -Care deeply about code…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2025)”Submitted Building Wordle with React (and Stacked PRs) as a story · 17 points
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