GitHub Stacked PRs

kept by eddie apr 18

GitHub now natively supports stacked pull requests within monorepos, enabling developers to break large changes into smaller, reviewable PRs.

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.
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If I Could Make My Own GitHub
A tech-titan fantasy dream of building a new forge that fixes GitHub's flaws with stacked PRs, pre-commit feedback, flexible approvals, and tiny self-hostable units.
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Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit - Isaac Corbrey
Using octopus merge commits (megamerges) in Jujutsu lets developers work on multiple branches simultaneously, avoid merge conflicts, and switch tasks with minimal friction.
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Git commands I run before reading any code
A developer shares five Git commands for quickly assessing a codebase's busy files, contributors, bug-prone areas, project momentum, and firefighting frequency before reading any code.
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This is why PR diff speed matters. This isn't a dunk on GitHub specifically, because GitLab, Forgejo, etc. are all equal or worse. But this
PR diff rendering is often so slow across GitHub, GitLab, and Forgejo that expert users experience frame drops and input lag, making the tool a bottleneck.
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