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Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub
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Stacked pull requests are now in public preview on GitHub, allowing users to break large changes into smaller, reviewable pull requests. This feature enables independent review of each pull request in a series, facilitating easier merging of changes with a single action.
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- Praise: Excited to see stacks make it into GitHub — this could revolutionize how we manage complex changes and reviews!
- Praise: The command line tooling (gh stack) helps to make things slightly less manual, which is a win for developers looking to streamline their workflow.
- Concern: Merging an entire stack is completely broken in many cases, losing the biggest gain of stacked PRs — that's a major red flag!
- Concern: The review model is fundamentally flawed; it encourages a chaotic workflow that could undermine the quality of code reviews.