Reviewers largely praise Graphite for making stacked pull requests practical on GitHub, speeding up reviews, and helping teams ship smaller, easier-to-review changes without getting blocked. Users repeatedly call out smoother branch management, auto-restacking and rebasing, an ergonomic CLI, and a polished UI that many prefer to GitHub’s. Several say it fits fast trunk-based development and multi-branch workflows especially well. Criticism is limited but specific: a few mention a learning curve, and one reviewer dislikes the diff view and comment panel layout versus GitHub.

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Pros

developer productivity (14)

stacked diffs (12)

CLI experience (8)

fast code review (7)

UI experience (6)

team collaboration (5)

small pull requests (4)

auto-restacking (3)

community engagement (2)

incremental history (2)

Cons

steep learning curve (2)

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Cons

Reviews

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•5 reviews

Graphite is great! It really helps speed up the PR review cycle, by making it super easy to create small PRs.

What's great

small pull requests (4)fast code review (7)

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2yr ago

Octomind

•20 reviews

After a steep initial learning curve and process adjustments, we couldn't live without it!

What needs improvement

steep learning curve (2)

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2yr ago

•1 review

The "stacking" feature for code reviews keeps everything moving smoothly and efficiently. Integrating it with my GitHub account was effortless. It's a game-changer for anyone looking to ship code faster and stay unblocked during reviews

What's great

GitHub integration (1)stacked diffs (12)developer productivity (14)fast code review (7)

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2yr ago

•1 review

I've missed the ability to stack diffs. Graphite helps me reclaim my old productivity by helping me manage version control and diff reviews much more smoothly. This is especially helpful when I'm working on multiple separate workflows, and I want to have an incremental history of each branch .good

What's great

stacked diffs (12)developer productivity (14)incremental history (2)

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11mo ago

•7 reviews

Graphite makes code reviews smoother and helps our team ship with more confidence.

What's great

team collaboration (5)fast code review (7)

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5 views7mo ago

used

Graphite

to build Central

•29 reviews

Graphite helps us ship faster with fewer bugs by encouraging small, focused pull requests. This keeps our workflow clean and easy to manage.

What's great

small pull requests (4)

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1yr ago

used

Graphite

to build Clockwise Prism

•6 reviews

As a small but mighty team, Graphite helps us ship faster by increasing our code review speed.

What's great

fast code review (7)

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1yr ago

used

Graphite

to build Product Forums (p/)

•29 reviews

Our engineering team leans on Graphite Reviewer for pull request reviews. It doesn’t replace a human reviewer, but will catch a few things a week that our human reviewers miss. And the Graphite reviewer usually runs before a human reviewer gets to the pull request. Which is nice for saving expensive, human time. On an engineering team, for every hour of code writing, there are 10 hours of code fixing and maintenance. Graphite is pretty key for us to reducing that fixing and maintenance time. Another nifty thing about Graphite is pull request stacking. Our engineering team spans 14 timezones at Product Hunt. It’s not unusual for someone to crank out a bunch of work while the rest of the team is asleep. Pull request stacking is quite helpful for smoothing out that workflow.