GitHub Stacked PRs: A Practical Guide to Smaller, Faster Code Reviews
Large pull requests are difficult to review well.
They combine too many concerns, make feedback harder to act on, and often leave reviewers deciding where to start.
GitHub Stacked PRs offer a more deliberate workflow: split one large change into a sequence of small, dependent pull requests (PRs) that can be reviewed independently.
In this tutorial, you will learn what stacked PRs are, when to use them, and how to manage a complete stack using GitHub CLI. We will use a small authentication feature as an example, breaking it into database, API, and interface layers.
If you need a visual demonstration, I have also made a video walkthrough of this workflow.
What Are GitHub Stacked PRs?
A stacked pull request is a chain of two or more PRs in the same repository. The bottom PR targets your trunk branch, usually main, and every PR above it targets the branch directly...
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