Whereas “merge request” and “pull request” have very literal meanings in terms of Git / distributed version control systems, Phabricator’s “diff” is VCS neutral. Diffs don’t even have to come from a VCS at all.. we have tools that spit out Phab diffs for review of changes they’re going to apply to MySQL DBs, for example.
When you use Phab with Git you normally set it to always squash merge. Each diff becomes exactly one commit on the main branch, with its commit message reformatted by Phab. The SHA that you committed before submitting your changes to Phab never appears in the authoritative repo (if only because Phab adds Reviewed-By and other metadata).
When you use Phab with Git you normally set it to always squash merge. Each diff becomes exactly one commit on the main branch, with its commit message reformatted by Phab. The SHA that you committed before submitting your changes to Phab never appears in the authoritative repo (if only because Phab adds Reviewed-By and other metadata).