You're not an alien: this is the workflow that GitHub encourages.
replyIt's just that not every tool is GitHub. Other systems, like Gerrit, don't use the PR as the unit of change: they use the commit itself. And you do regularly ship individual commits. Instead of squashing at the end, you squash during development.
Thanks for explaining that. Having a bit of a (dim) lightbulb moment now. I’ve never used Gerrit - just GitHub and GitLab and Forgejo. So I assumed the PR/MR model was more or less universal. But if smaller development commits are being squashed into the shippable/reviewable unit - then the focus on commits makes a lot more sense.
replyYou're welcome! It is one of those "do fish realize they're wet" kind of things, tools can shape our perception so strongly that you don't even realize that they're doing it!
replyYou could agree that the PR is the meaningful unit for shipping, but push back gently that for agents working in parallel, the commit/changeset level matters more than it used to because agents don't coordinate the way humans do. Multiple agents touching the same repo need finer-grained units of change than "the whole PR."
replyCould you elaborate a bit more on this? Curious what your workflow looks like. Is this multiple agents running on the same feature/refactor/whatever unit of work? For concurrent but divergent work I just use a git worktree per feature. And I think I only ever have a single agent (with whatever subagents it spins up) per unit of work.
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