How to use graphite to manage stacks of PRs better

Graphite is a tool to help manage stacked PRs. It promotes the creation of small, review-able PRs. It also promotes a specific style of git commands which can be useful.

For example, because the focus is on small PRs, the expectation is one branch, one PR, one commit. That is, instead of a bunch of commits all on one branch that you are probably going to “squash and merge” anyway, use gt modify (same as git commit -a --amend --no-edit) to keep a single commit.

The other pro-tip for using Graphite is to use gt ss which is an alias for gt submit --stack to update fully up and down the stack of PRs based on your most recent commit.