Codebrag – Daily code review tool

How's this better than Github's review? Must be a pretty big reason to add a new tool to our team's flow.

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Where I work we use Bitbucket for code reviews. Their code review setup works well for us. We especially enjoy the &quot;like&quot; button that Codebrag also seems to have. It doesn&#x27;t seem like Codebrag is very much different from this though.<p>A big way to differentiate for me would be if you could create &quot;groups&quot; or &quot;teams&quot; of reviewers. Say we have three teams sharing a code base. We could create a group for each of those teams. Then when someone opens a review I add the groups I need to look at it instead of the individuals on those teams.<p>One question I would have too is what is a &quot;commit&quot; in Codebrag? Is it literally review commit-by-commit, or is it more like a Pull Request in Github&#x2F;Bitbucket terms? If it&#x27;s the latter, I would rename it to not make the terms confusing.

Has there been a recent update with Codebrag? I try to keep an eye on the available code review tools and this one was last updated a while back. The last release&#x2F;commit&#x2F;tweet was last June.

It looks about the same as GitLab&#x27;s merge request &#x2F; code review feature to me. The being able to dismiss a commit is different, but I&#x27;m not sure I understand that feature.<p>When I&#x27;m doing a big review, I copy the list of files into a text document and check them off after I finish each one. I&#x27;ve found that especially useful when the order of the files requires a lot of jumping around to follow the flow. I&#x27;d like to see this feature supported by a code review tool.

I think this overlaps a lot with what github is already offering.<p>In github you can start a code review from a comment, mark a review as blocking, require at least an approving review prior to merge, etc... You can also add hooks for automated tests, etc.

Really needs a screencast or similar; I get what the tool is for, but it&#x27;s really hard to see why or how it works without investing time and effort in setting it up and running it myself.

How does this compare to Phabricator? What&#x27;s the best open source tool for code review these days ?

How does non-blocking work? I&#x27;m interested in this, but didn&#x27;t find much info.