--- title: GitHub's stacked PRs are landing and developers actually... description: GitHub's stacked PR feature has entered preview and is receiving unusually positive early reactions from notable developers including John Resig and React core... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/github-s-stacked-prs-are-landing-and-developers-actually-like-them-2xhfgxhdm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: GitHub's stacked PRs are landing and developers actually like them | daily.dev og:description: GitHub's stacked PR feature has entered preview and is receiving unusually positive early reactions from notable developers including John Resig and React core... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/github-s-stacked-prs-are-landing-and-developers-actually-like-them-2xhfgxhdm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/2xHFGxHDm.png og:image:alt: GitHub's stacked PRs are landing and developers actually like them og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # GitHub's stacked PRs are landing and developers actually like them **[Trends](https://daily.dev/sources/trends)** · 2 min read · 6 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary GitHub's stacked PR feature has entered preview and is receiving unusually positive early reactions from notable developers including John Resig and React core team members. The feature allows chaining multiple PRs that can be landed together via a merge queue, eliminating the need for third-party tools like Graphite or Stacked Git CLI. Previously common at companies like Meta and Google, stacked PRs let developers build chains of smaller reviewable diffs without waiting for one large PR to merge before starting the next. The merge queue integration — enabling multiple PRs to land at once without manual rebasing — appears to be the standout benefit. The feature is currently in preview with a waitlist. ## Content GitHub's Stacked PRs feature is still in private preview, and the developer community is already losing it. The pitch: instead of one massive, unreviable PR, you break a feature into a chain of smaller, focused pull requests — data model, then API, then UI — each reviewable on its own. GitHub's `gh stack` CLI manages the whole lifecycle: initializing the stack, submitting PRs, rebasing the entire chain when something changes mid-stack, and merging into a queue. The reactions are almost uniformly enthusiastic. @charliermarsh: "I've used GitHub's Stacked PRs exactly once and my current opinion is that it's amazing." @jeresig called it "incredible" after landing 5 stacked PRs directly to a merge queue in one shot. @acdlite has been using it for weeks and admits he doesn't even know what the interface looks like anymore — the agent just handles it. That last part is worth sitting with. The workflow is already getting handed off to AI agents before most developers have even touched it. Jared Palmer is actively working on getting Devin to operate GitHub Stacked PRs autonomously. The feature and the agentic tooling are arriving at the same time, and they're clearly designed for each other. There's a practical case here beyond the hype. AI-generated code tends to produce enormous diffs that are basically impossible to review meaningfully. Stacked PRs are a direct answer to that problem — let the agent write whatever it wants on a single branch, then split the work into 4-5 coherent layers that a human can actually read. It's less about discipline and more about making review tractable again when the code is coming out faster than anyone can follow. The open questions are real: CI costs multiply across a stack, squash merges create fake conflicts that need `git rebase --onto` to untangle, and the GitHub UI for navigating stacks is still rough. The `rerere` config helps with cascading rebase conflicts, but it's not magic. Still, the waitlist is open and the early crowd is clearly sold. The merge queue integration alone — landing a whole stack atomically — is the kind of thing that makes the tooling feel like it's finally catching up to how people actually want to work. ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@capjavert** · 1 upvotes > Am I the only one who does not see the purpose of this? Its like when people used to use GUI to commit, its just an abstraction layer which does not really help much if you don't understand what git does under the hood. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [GitHub invokes spirit of Phabricator with preview of Stacked PRs](https://daily.dev/posts/github-invokes-spirit-of-phabricator-with-preview-of-stacked-prs-ybrvrjtnz) · DEVCLASS · 3 upvotes · 0 comments - [GitHub adds Stacked PRs to speed complex code reviews](https://daily.dev/posts/github-adds-stacked-prs-to-speed-complex-code-reviews-ufanab95z) · InfoWorld · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [GitHub Brings Stacked Pull Requests to Public Preview](https://daily.dev/posts/github-brings-stacked-pull-requests-to-public-preview-avrp7mpds) · InfoQ · 8 upvotes · 2 comments --- Tags: [#github](https://daily.dev/tags/github), [#code-review](https://daily.dev/tags/code-review) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/github-s-stacked-prs-are-landing-and-developers-actually-like-them-2xhfgxhdm) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"GitHub's stacked PRs are landing and developers actually like them","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/github-s-stacked-prs-are-landing-and-developers-actually-like-them-2xhfgxhdm","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/github-s-stacked-prs-are-landing-and-developers-actually-like-them-2xhfgxhdm"},"datePublished":"2026-07-22T20:05:09.522Z","dateModified":"2026-07-27T14:34:45.333Z","description":"GitHub's stacked PR feature has entered preview and is receiving unusually positive early reactions from notable developers including John Resig and React core...","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Trends","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Trends","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--ZfSp3asX--/f_auto,q_auto/v1780996004/logos/trends?_a=BAMAMiWQ0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/trends"},"commentCount":1,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/github-s-stacked-prs-are-landing-and-developers-actually-like-them-2xhfgxhdm","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":6},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}],"keywords":"github,code-review","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Trends","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/trends"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"GitHub's stacked PRs are landing and developers actually like them"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/github-s-stacked-prs-are-landing-and-developers-actually-like-them-2xhfgxhdm","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"Am I the only one who does not see the purpose of this? 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