[isoos]

> what else are you going to do?

Depends on the team and the product. My personal approach is to have 2-3 larger things to work on, so while I wait for reviews on one, I can switch and work on the other. This usually means minimum 1-2 weeks of planned work, sometimes even more, without being blocked on reviews. If everything is blocked, then it is time for some code health cleanup, refactoring and fixing those TODOs that are just lingering around, and also nudging the reviewers...

[jacobegold]

The advantage of using stacks, though, is that you can keep focus on what you're working on, or even still work on 2-3 things simultaneously but work on multiple dependent pieces of each at once. Maybe I'm biased because I've used this workflow my whole career, but I think everyone can benefit from trying out a stacked PR workflow.

Not to mentioned getting reviews for smaller, atomic changes is just SO much easier. Even on a team where everyone is using a stacked workflow, if anyone submits a larger PR (especially more than a few hundred lines), you can see how the smaller PRs submitted in the same time, often in the same stack, get reviewed much faster.

[rendaw]

I don't think anyone wouldn't agree that being able to work deeply on a single async task would be a great benefit, but your reply completely ignores the issue OP brought up:

> Stacking in my personal experience usually leads to merge conflict hell as changes and PR suggestions get merged underneath you.

That's been my experience too.

And beyond the technical issues, the deeper you work on a single issue the more at risk you are of the simple issue of finding design or requirements issues in the base MR that require going a different direction and discarding the whole stack. So even if you can somehow avoid conflict issues, stacks are still dangerous.

[pluiz]

That's the approach that I've been doing for a while now as well, I feel way more productive when a switch things that I'm working on and then come back later, and it also helps to keep it up with the time that my team-mates are available to review my changes...