How to Stop Drowning in Giant Pull Requests With Stacked PRs

📰 Dev.to · Alan West

Learn to manage giant pull requests with stacked PRs using gh-stack, improving code review quality and reducing painful rebasing

intermediate Published 14 Apr 2026
Action Steps
  1. Install gh-stack to enable stacked PRs
  2. Create a new stack using gh-stack init
  3. Add commits to the stack using gh-stack add
  4. Submit the stack for review using gh-stack submit
  5. Use gh-stack rebase to rebase the entire stack with a single command
Who Needs to Know This

Developers and DevOps teams can benefit from using stacked PRs to streamline their code review process and improve collaboration

Key Insight

💡 Stacked PRs can help reduce the complexity of large pull requests and improve code review quality

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