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by masklinn 70 days ago
Merge trains are an integration method. In GitHub that’s called merge queues.

Stacked PRs are a development method, for managing changes which are separate but dependent on one another (stacked).

The two are orthogonal they can be used together or independently (or not at all).
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ghighi7878 70 days ago
Ahh so stacked diffs? https://docs.gitlab.com/user/project/merge_requests/stacked_...
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IshKebab 70 days ago
Yes, except with a proper UI. Also while you could do this on GitHub before in the same way that that Gitlab feature works, it didn't work cross-repo so in practice it wasn't an option for most open source code.

I can't remember if Gitlab has the same limitations but I do remember trying to use Gitlab's stacked diffs and finding them to not work very well. Can't remember why tbh.

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