Overview
Streamline your complex development workflows with GitHub Stacked PRs, a powerful GitHub CLI extension designed to simplify the management of stacked branches and pull requests. This tool automates the often tedious tasks of creating and rebasing interconnected branches, ensuring your code reviews remain focused and efficient by breaking down large changes into manageable, layered PRs.
Key Features
- Automated Stack Management: Effortlessly create, organize, and manage chains of branches where each layer builds upon the previous one.
- Intelligent Rebasing: Keep your stack up-to-date with cascading rebases, automatically handling complex rebase scenarios and conflict resolution prompts.
- Streamlined PR Creation & Linking: Generate individual pull requests for each branch in your stack, with bases correctly set to the preceding branch. GitHub Stacked PRs then automatically links these PRs into a cohesive "Stack" on GitHub for superior reviewability.
- Interactive TUI: Utilize a powerful terminal UI (
gh stack modify) to visually restructure your stack by dropping, folding, inserting, renaming, or reordering branches. - Seamless Synchronization: Keep your local and remote stacks in sync with a single command (
gh stack sync), handling fetches, rebases, pushes, and PR state updates. - AI Agent Integration: Enhance your AI coding assistant's capabilities by installing the
gh-stackskill, enabling it to understand and work with your stacked PRs. - Flexible Checkout: Easily navigate your stacks using branch names, stack numbers, PR numbers, or URLs with
gh stack checkout.
Typical Use Cases
- Developing large features: Break down a significant feature into smaller, reviewable PRs that can be merged incrementally.
- Applying interdependent changes: Manage a series of related code modifications where the order of review and merging is critical.
- Enforcing granular code reviews: Ensure reviewers focus on the specific changes introduced by each layer of a complex update.
- Improving CI/CD pipeline efficiency: Facilitate smoother integration and testing by maintaining a clear, layered codebase.
- Collaborating on intricate refactors: Manage phased refactoring efforts without overwhelming reviewers with massive diffs.
