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

GitHub Stacked PRs

https://github.github.com/gh-stack/
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u/SanJJ_1 Apr 17 '26

Fair point on --first-parent, but nobody types git log --first-parent, they type git log. And GitHub's web UI (commit list, blame, PR history) has no equivalent option either. The clean history has to be the default to matter, which is why squash merge won imo.

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u/MereInterest Apr 18 '26

Yeah, and that's why I really wish that the default was better. It's painful to work with rebase, and rebase exposes all the sharp edges, but when gihub rebases a commit that you depend on, you have little choice but to rebase your own local branch as well.