Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub

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Post by tomzorz » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 4:26 PM UTC

Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub
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Re: Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub

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Post by tao_oat » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 5:26 PM UTC

Really excited to try this. After using Graphite it's been very hard going back to stack-less GitHub. Hopefully this can make the stacked PR workflow more common and give people an easier alternative to mammoth PRs.

Re: Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub

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Post by camilomatajira » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 5:32 PM UTC

I have been using it for a while and it has been useful. One feature that I am still missing is to be able to stack PR across repositories. In other words, I want this stack to contains some PRs to the backend, some to the front, and some to ArgoCD in some specific order.

Re: Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub

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Post by jeremy_k » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 5:41 PM UTC

Been using it over the last week. Only complaint I had was that `gh stack rebase` was struggling rebasing after squash merges but I got a response that the rebasing had been improved so I'm looking forward to trying that out.

Re: Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub

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Post by lucky_cloud » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 5:44 PM UTC

Is that why the menu toggle is the stack of pancakes emoji (U+1F95E)?

Whimsy is fine but that change made me super suspicious about what I was looking at.

Re: Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub

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Post by hungryhobbit » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 5:53 PM UTC

Both GitHub and GitLab have recently released new stacked MR tech: I guess everyone is submitting giant AI-authored PRs these days, and there's a real need to break them up into human-reviewable chunks.

Both are an improvement (GH's seems a little better, with their one-button merge that GL lacks) ... bit both are so incredibly "meh".

When are we going to see the major hosts give tools designed to help facilitate human code review? Simple example: lets say I want to leave notes in my PR (MR on GitLab). I can use the review comments to do so, but then I have a million comments to resolve at the end before I can merge, my comments look just like the reviewer comments (with extra UI for replying that's unecessary), etc.

It'd be so easy to just have a "sign post" feature to let authors annotate their code before reviewers review it ... and nobody offers this, or any other features focused on actually helping humans review. It's all just new command line features that save a bit of rebasing (which Claude can do just fine on its own).

Re: Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub

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Post by efromvt » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 5:53 PM UTC

Praise be, stacking is such a better ux for separating out a feature diff into distinct component units and native support makes it easy.

Re: Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub

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Post by piyushsingariya » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 5:54 PM UTC

Finally. Something we got

Re: Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub

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Post by 8260337551 » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 5:55 PM UTC

Rejoice, finally a new feature that isn't AI related.

Re: Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub

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Post by jaredsohn » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 5:55 PM UTC

hungryhobbit wrote: post #6

Both GitHub and GitLab have recently released new stacked MR tech: I guess everyone is submitting giant AI-authored PRs these days, and there's a real need to break them up into human-reviewable chunks. Both are an improvement (GH's seems a little better, with their one-button merge that GL lacks) ... bit both are so incredibly "meh". When are we going to see the major hosts give tools designed to help facilitate hum…

Or even just let me make a thread in github without associating it with files / a line of code. I hate it when conversations span top-level messages.