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Reorient GitHub Pull Requests Around Changesets | Sep 2023
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I believe sapling uses https://github.com/ezyang/ghstack under the hood for stacked PR.
Why SQLite does not use Git (2018) | Jul 2023
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Generally git‘s support for a stacked PR workflow is poor [0], but imho that is the future of team collab (git is great for very asynchronously built projects, like the linux kernel). I also wonder, how much better git could be if it was based on DAGs not trees (I may want to use a changeset that is still developing in more than one branch without maintaining copies of it) and corollarily I‘d like to rebase subtrees (sub-DAGs) instead of single branches.

I have introduced a stacked PR workflow to our team a while ago and a few months later half of the team had migrated to some kind of stacked PR workflow tool (on top of github and git, even though support is sub-optimal). It seems like this is an idea that is really sticky.

[0] https://github.com/ezyang/ghstack
Stacked changes: how FB and Google engineers stay unblocked and ship faster | Nov 2021
How is this different from ghstack? https://github.com/ezyang/ghstack (which is what Edward Yang for PyTorch developers to mimic the stacked workflow, although it works with other repos).
A Better Model for Stacked Pull Requests | Apr 2021
While working on PyTorch, I also wrote an equivalent tool (funnily named nearly the same thing) for doing stack diffs (https://github.com/ezyang/ghstack/), which most of our team uses for more complicated PRs. The UX for working on commits is a bit different than this tool though; instead of pushing branches individually, you just run "ghstack" on a stack of commits and it will create a PR per commit in the chain (amending each commit so that its commit message records what PR it corresponds to). To update the PRs, just amend or interactive rebase the original commits. Personally, I find this a lot easier to handle than finagling tons of branches.
An ex-Googler’s guide to dev tools | Nov 2020
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So a few months ago I actually found a tool for this! The tool makes it easy to manage stacked reviews on GitHub. It's working super well for me. I also showed it to a bunch of people I work with, and a lot of them have taken it up.

Link: https://github.com/ezyang/ghstack

If you're interested, I'm happy to talk you through it - just book some time here: https://calendly.com/ericyu3/15min
Git is too hard | Nov 2020
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So a lot of people at my company were struggling with this too, but I think we found a pretty good solution! We found a tool called ghstack (https://github.com/ezyang/ghstack) that makes it easy to manage dependent PRs. A lot of us are now using it.

Happy to show you how to use it - just book some time here: https://calendly.com/ericyu3/15min
Fortunately, I don't squash my commits | Oct 2020
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Stacked diffs have been a pain for me as well, but recently I found a tool that makes it super easy to implement stacked diffs on top of GitHub! I started using it a month ago and it makes complex code changes so much easier to split up into manageable chunks.

It's called ghstack (https://github.com/ezyang/ghstack)

If you want to learn more you can email me at [email protected]. Also happy to help you get it up and running - just put some time on my calendar at https://calendly.com/ericyu3/15min