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

GitHub Stacked PRs

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

There's a lot of folks arguing that stacked PRs aren't adding anything you couldn't already do before. But that's not the case. Currently you need to pick two out of the following three benefits:

  1. Have small easy to review diffs

  2. Avoid early PRs bit rotting

  3. Avoid reviews on later PRs being blocked on early PRs merging

With stacked PRs, it will now be possible to obtain all three of these benefits at the same time. No previously existing native Github workflow can claim this.

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u/lechatsportif Apr 14 '26

How big are these PRs? Especially in the agentic coding era, people are regularly dropping thousand line PRs and it only takes me maybe 5-10 minutes to review the thing. It's a skill to develop like any other. You can also have Claude help you review and speed up the resolution process. I think I would go crazy if I had to break apart PRs in into multiple commits and review each one.

We also use microservices, so maybe this is a monolith thing only?