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🚀 Stop Creating Giant PRs: Meet GitHub Stacked PRs

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Pull requests are great for code review — but what happens when a feature is too large to fit comfortably into a single PR?

What if you could take a large feature and turn it into a clean chain of small, reviewable pull requests — without losing the relationship between them? That’s the idea behind GitHub Stacked PRs. Instead of creating one massive PR, you build changes layer by layer — feature/document-model → feature/login → feature/login-api—so each change has a clear purpose while still contributing to the same feature. In this article, I’ll show how gh stack makes this workflow practical, from creating your first stack to updating and managing dependent PRs.GitHub now provides gh stack, a GitHub CLI extension specifically designed to manage this workflow. GitHub describes stacked PRs as a way to break large changes into a chain of smaller, dependent pull requests that can be reviewed and merged independently.

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What is a Stacked PR?

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