Stacked Diffs
topic on 2 shows · 3 statements across 2 episodes
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A Product Market Fit Show
3 statements about Stacked Diffs, every show
GitHub rejected stacked diff prototypes in 2020 and 2022 as too risky
“And there's been multiple attempts at this internally going back to like, 20, 20. And there was one very, very, very polished attempt to in 20, 22. And it just, I don't have all the context, so, but it was, there was a pretty good implementation. All of the wo…”
GitHub is actively exploring stacked diff support for its product roadmap
“So anyway, we're, we had cold meetings internally already, and we're trying to weave it into the planning and the roadmap, and so hopefully we'll be able to share more updates soon, but like, it's a Top of the list known feature. And so, and like, we're workin…”
Lutsky: Meta's engineering scale is largely enabled by stacked diffs workflows
“And I think if you look at companies like Meta where, where they managed to scale to, like, tens of thousands of engineers all, all working in the same repo at a time and, you know, merging and deploying constantly, a lot of that, I think, is, is attributable …”