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Brittney Kernan
Brittney Kernan

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Getting Started with Graphite: A No-Fluff Guide

For visual learners who want to learn the basics of PR stacking quickly.

Why use Graphite? Have you ever based branches on top of others and opened PRs for them? Yes. Does it get messy? Yes. Graphite makes this, called stacking PRs, easier and less time consuming.

What is Graphite? A web platform and cli. The web platform feels like a next gen Github. The CLI is like git.

Step 0: Check out their cool website and create a Free dev account

Step 1: Watch the first 4 or more videos in Graphite’s Getting started with Graphite video playlist

Step 2: Install the CLI

Step 3: Follow their demo to get hands on experience by running: gt demo

Step 4: Create your own cheatsheet to strengthen memory of cli commands

Step 5: Get to work

Bonus: Integrate with Slack for notifications

Learning time: Under an hour

I hope you found this helpful and concise.

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