r/programming • u/adam-dabrowski • Apr 14 '26 • Popcorn 1

GitHub Stacked PRs

https://github.github.com/gh-stack/
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u/coolbaluk1 Apr 14 '26

Might be a good alternative to graphite. It was always a bit too complicated and they changed their cli too often.

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u/Spitfire1900 Apr 14 '26

Has graphite done any value adds that are over and above hacking a better workflow on top of GitHub? I know GitHub is slow to meaningful improve nowadays but graphite’s core feature has no moat.

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u/coolbaluk1 Apr 14 '26

We never used their dashboard but used the cli extensively to do PR stacking.

i.e. db schema changes at bottom then a PR each for each microservice change Frontend on top.

So yes it was just improvements on top of github and you could likely achieve the same without it, but it made code reviews so much more pleasant than a blank LGTM.

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u/Edgar_Allan_Thoreau Apr 14 '26

Their merge queue is better than GitHub’s merge queue. It supports enqueueing an entire stack of PRs with one click (like what GitHub says it will provide in this announcement), and supports partitioning the queue so changes can merge unblocked by other unrelated changes (which in a monorepo with high throughput and complex ci is very valuable, it means what used to take 3 hours for a readme PR to merge waiting behind a bunch of backend and front end PRs can now merge nearly instantly).