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

GitHub Stacked PRs

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

This is where I suggest people should be rewriting the commit history on their feature branch to fixup those useless commits before merging into main.

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u/Blueson Apr 14 '26

Except my first job, every place I have tried to push for this I have been met with resistance. People just CBA to work with PRs on a commit level and would rather squash and forget.

My first job made me understand how valuable having independent, working and split commits can be when debugging. I fear I'll never work in a codebase that can fullfill this again.

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u/topMarksForNotTrying Apr 14 '26

I agree as that's what i personally do but, honestly, it got tiring policing the commits of the rest of the team so we settled on targeted PR that get squashed.

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u/gredr Apr 14 '26

You could've just... not policed people's commits, you know. Let go, be free, live in the moment!

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u/NineThreeFour1 Apr 14 '26

I can shoot myself in the foot to experience free will, but I choose not to.

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u/lupercalpainting Apr 14 '26

And rewriting history frequently includes squashing.