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		samsin 25 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GitHub Stacked PRs 'Large pull requests are hard to review' is a good reason to keep PRs small, but small PRs also encourage continuous integration/delivery/deployment. Stacked PRs sound like they encourage long-lived feature branches instead.

dontlikeyoueith 25 days ago [–]

Depends on what you consider long-lived.

I typically generate stacks of 3-5 PRs in 1-2 days now (in a gen-AI world).

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