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by ghjfrdghibt 558 days ago
I like fossil. Much prefer it to git. No idea what stacked PRs are but it's compatible with git and way simpler in my opinion. Plus comes with some nice extras like tickets, wiki, UI.
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hinkley 558 days ago
It comes up a lot in split repos or split deployments.

To make a change you need to deploy part of it here, then another part over there, and maybe fiddle with some settings in between.

So your story ends up with several PRs that have to land in a specific order or things break. Eg client calling a new endpoint that doesn’t exist yet.

We call these chains of dependent reviews “stacked” for reasons I’m not entirely clear on.

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ghjfrdghibt 558 days ago
That sounds like a nightmare, and I'm glad I've never had to deal with something like that. Benefits of not being a professional developer.
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keybored 558 days ago
Stacked PRs is GitHub users (or Phabricator) reinventing commits as pull requests.
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