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> it adds very little on top of what I was already able to do by saying "this is PR 1 out of 7, this is PR2 out of 7 and build on top of the branch that I used
by IshKebab 3mo ago
> it adds very little on top of what I was already able to do by saying "this is PR 1 out of 7, this is PR2 out of 7 and build on top of the branch that I used for PR1/7, etc".
That's literally all it's supposed to do. Make that dev flow less awful so you don't have to say "by the way this PR depends on #123, I will change the target branch when that is merged" and nonsense like that.
- zxspectrum1982 3mo agoWell, then it provides so little they could have not done anything at all as well. Useful stacked PRs would be something that uses AI to split my large branch/PR into smaller PRs for upstream to review. Claude does that for me.
- calumcl 3mo agoThey've provided a skill with their stacking CLI to provide guidance to any coding agent and the Copilot harness now ships with a pr-stack command to do exactly what you're saying for PR splitting FYI: https://twitter.com/_JeremyMoseley/status/2082190397107994698 https://twitter.com/_JeremyMoseley/status/208219039710799469...
- IshKebab 3mo agoIt's not "so little". I've wanted this for ages. Trying to submit a chain of PRs is a horrible experience without support for it. This is nothing to do with AI.