Now you're claiming that I'm making an argument that I never made.
To be clear, the original statement was whether there was a better review tool compared to Gerrit for those who review code and use that tool for that purpose. I responded by suggesting the patch review via mailing list method and asked a follow up question about how Gerrit handled related commits and explained how that case was handled by the mailing list method.
Then you, not the person I originally responded to, decided to interject and, while claiming not to be rude, claims I'm saying something entirely different than what I actually stated.
Personally, I found that very off putting and extremely rude on your part.
I'm sorry I was rude to you, I didn't mean that and I apologize.
I didn't mean anything more than what I literally wrote, which is I don't think you're the target market for code review tools and your suggestion may not be a good fit for people looking for review tools.
Gerrit handles related commits in a similar way I guess.
A Gerrit changeset is like a GitHub pr, it has many commits, and commits are usually rebased against master, this is crucial to track the review properly over time. (Its very easy to switch to earlier revisions of the same changeset and you never see external changes.)
Honestly, I don't think Gerrit is anything special, I think it simply has the right approach to development (rebased/ff-only) that enables easy review.
Based on the documentation I read, it looks like Gerrit handles this by grouping changes by topics [1]. I'm not sure whether that can be done automatically when pushing up changes that span multiple commits in a local branch.
If I create a branch with several commits where one commit adds a new method with associated unit tests, and a subsequent commit adds several calls to that new method in the code base (while updating any affected tests), then how would Gerrit handle the ordering of those commits. Even if they're in the same topic, I don't know if there's a way to ensure that the first commit is reachable from the subsequent commit.
To be clear, the original statement was whether there was a better review tool compared to Gerrit for those who review code and use that tool for that purpose. I responded by suggesting the patch review via mailing list method and asked a follow up question about how Gerrit handled related commits and explained how that case was handled by the mailing list method.
Then you, not the person I originally responded to, decided to interject and, while claiming not to be rude, claims I'm saying something entirely different than what I actually stated.
Personally, I found that very off putting and extremely rude on your part.