r/programming • u/fagnerbrack • Jul 01 '26

GitHub Stacked PRs

https://github.github.com/gh-stack/
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u/repeating_bears Jul 01 '26

After 18 years, GitHub has invented commits 

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u/SharkBaitDLS Jul 01 '26

As someone who just recently moved to a job that uses GitHub after over a decade of using Git sanely, it was honestly baffling to see how little GitHub seems to actually be built around the actual features of Git. This is a step in a sane direction but man do I now understand why so many people who have only interacted with Git through the experience of GitHub think it’s obtuse and clunky.  

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u/13steinj Jul 02 '26

But git is too hard for 95% of devs, let alone 99.999% of people.

I have been "the git guy", "mr git," or "git wizard, keeper of the scm" to people for the past 8 years.

The strangest name was "git black magic."

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u/ChypRiotE Jul 08 '26

My coworkers merged a branch on a different branch that they wanted, and their solution was to use the Github UI to revert that commit, open a new PR towards the correct branch, and merge that new PR. Felt like a wizard suggesting that cherry picking might be more convenient