[smaudet]

> what else are you going to do

You can also change the definition of done - something I try to do when a task gets too large, spin off new sub-tasks, etc. The first feature doesn't quite work right, but the merge differential is usually smaller for tweaks or bug-fixes than it is for major initial features.

You can spend a lot time planning how best to break up your work, and sometimes you may be able to do that successfully, but often times it you are constrained not by git but by your tracking tool (jira, trac), which impose somewhat artificial sizes on code tasks....

And really that's the whole thing stacked prs or commits are trying to solve, minimize the merge differential.