Advancing on software development, GitHub has announced the public preview of stacked pull requests.
The public preview was announced July 30.
Stacked pull requests break large changes into a chain of smaller, dependent pull requests. A stacked pull request is an ordered series of pull requests that each represent focused layers of a change,” GitHub said in the announcement. The goal is to make pull requests easier to review, and to avoid splitting work across multiple branches that must be continually rebased.
According to GitHub, teams can:
Keep large changes moving by reviewing short, narrowly scoped pull requests in parallel.
