Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub(github.blog)
772 points by tomzorz 45 days ago | 294 comments
tl;dr: GitHub is rolling out stacked pull requests in public preview, letting developers break large changes into an ordered series of smaller, independently reviewable PRs that can be merged individually or all at once. The feature works via a new `gh-stack` CLI extension, github.com, the mobile app, or Copilot, and integrates with existing branch protections and required checks. Merge queue support is coming in the following weeks.
HN Discussion:
  • Feature is buggy and incomplete for a public preview release
  • ~GitHub took too long and shipped a basic v1 compared to competitors like Graphite
  • Stacked PRs are a valuable workflow that will improve software development practices
  • Stacked PRs are unnecessary; well-curated commits or separate small PRs already solve this
  • The component-based stacking example encourages poor development practices