GoKawiilCommunity fork 'Maiao' revives Gerrit-style stacked PR tool after Adevinta abandons it
Maiao, a command-line tool that recreates Gerrit's stacked-commit review workflow on modern git hosts, has been picked up by community maintainers under runetes/maiao after Adevinta's original team stopped maintaining it. The tool's 'git review' command turns each commit in a branch into its own linked pull or merge request, automatically managing parent-child dependencies and rebasing the stack as changes get merged. It now supports GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, Forgejo/Codeberg, Bitbucket Cloud, and the beta Cursor Origin platform, auto-detecting the provider from the repository's remote URL.
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Stacked pull requests let developers split large features into small, independently reviewable changes, a workflow long favored by Google and Gerrit users but historically clunky on GitHub-style platforms. By continuing an abandoned open-source project rather than letting it die, the new maintainers preserve a tool that many teams depend on for cleaner code review, while also signaling how community forks increasingly keep useful developer tooling alive after corporate sponsors move on.
- Maiao is now maintained by the community at runetes/maiao after Adevinta stopped supporting the original project.
- It converts each git commit into a separate PR/MR with automatic stacking, fixup handling, and auto-rebasing.
- The tool supports GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, Forgejo/Codeberg, Bitbucket Cloud, and a new beta integration with Cursor Origin.
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