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steveklabnik 85 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Reinventing the pull request

Stacked diffs let you not have to evaluate the whole PR as a whole, and encourages smaller and more frequent commits.

Basically, I agree with you that large PRs are a problem, I just don't think it means you need to throw pre-land code review out the window.

sharts 85 days ago [–]

Agree too bad stacked PRs aren’t really native to GH and you probably need to go with not so standard tools to manage them

steveklabnik 85 days ago | [–]

Yes, it is unfortunate. I did link an announcement below that some form of this feature is coming, we'll see what it actually looks like when it goes public.

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