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sameenkarimyesterday at 10:17 PM1 replyview on HN

The CLI is completely optional, you can create stacked PRs purely via the UI.

Also the rationale for having a chain of branches pointing to each other was so the diff in a PR shows just the relevant changes from the specific branch, not the entire set of changes going back to the parent/trunk.

Curious how you're thinking about it?


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herpdyderptoday at 1:12 PM

> so the diff in a PR shows just the relevant changes from the specific branch

That's exactly right.

> you can create stacked PRs purely via the UI

How?

I see from the docs https://github.github.com/gh-stack/introduction/overview:

> When a pull request is part of a stack

How does GitHub determine if a PR is part of a stack? Is it automatically detected so that I don't need to adjust my tooling that already creates chained PRs?