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I've seen that you can read one commit at a time, but never anything for reviewing (or diffing between them if they change) - is there a UI beyond just clicking on the list of commits?

Though I forget if you can even comment in the individual commits in that view. Complex multi-commit PRs have generally been a nightmare on GitHub in my experience.

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You can comment on the individual commits' changes, but you can't comment on the commit (e.g. its message) itself. I believe you can do this in Gerrit.

Which means it's probably all I have seen - so you can't approve commits either, or track file-reading progress through commits (I think? i.e. "viewed file X at commit Y, but not at commit Z"), or diff changes to a commit (e.g. by order/message) after a rebase, just "you can see the current commit history". Not sure I'd consider that "can review one commit at a time", just "can read one commit at a time". "Review" means "there is support for this thing as a first class entity" imo, and that ain't what github is offering, nor anything even close to it.

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