In praise of the stacked pull request

kept by eddie feb 05

Stacked pull requests, managed with tools like Graphite, keep code review fast and team velocity high by breaking large work into small, independent, mergeable units.

Twenty Years of Stacking Commits — jd:/dev/blog
Stacked commits, not monolithic PRs, are the correct unit of code review—a truth Gerrit knew in 2008 that AI's speed and tooling like Mergify Stack are now forcing GitHub to finally admit with its native stacked PRs feature.
also on Graphite, #code-review, GitHub, #software-engineering, #developer-tools
Cursor launches Origin code hosting platform as GitHub outage exposes opening in AI coding race
Cursor launched Origin, an AI‑native code‑hosting platform that mirrors GitHub, aiming to capture developer attention as GitHub’s reliability falters amid rising AI‑agent usage.
also on Graphite, GitHub, #software-engineering, #developer-tools
How I Read A Pull Request - Kevin Murphy
Kevin Murphy shares a systematic PR-reading method using the five Ws, including test-first review, to improve code review quality.
also on #code-review, GitHub, #software-engineering, #productivity, #developer-tools
Code Review - Claude Code Docs
Anthropic's Code Review service uses multi-agent analysis to catch logic errors, security flaws, and regressions in GitHub pull requests, posting findings as inline comments without blocking merges.
also on #code-review, GitHub, #software-engineering, #developer-tools