[liamfd]

GitHub does support that workflow, if I'm understanding you right.

You can set the target branch on a PR. So pr A targets main, B and C target A. After you merge A, B and C even get automatically retargeted to main (or whatever you merge A into). This handles the "block B and C until A is merged" requirement as well.

Now, you can accidentally merge B and C early by accident into A and mess with the diff, and you need to have your CI properly configured to only check the diff between them and their target (not just main) but it works fine for most use cases in my experience. The other unfortunate thing is the potential for merge conflicts in the stack, of course, if you change A after branching the others off.

[Denvercoder9]

The big issue on GitHub is that it doesn't work across forks: I can't create a PR for B that targets A, which both live in my fork, in the parent repository.

The other problem is that without extra tooling it doesn't give a good user experience. It's too easy for B and C to accidentally be merged into A, unless you mark them as WIP, but that requires manually unmarking them when A is ready. There's also no UI to easily navigate across the stack of PRs.