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Submit stacked diffs to GitHub on the command line

12 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 2 stories, 10 comments · first 2020-10-14 · latest 2026-07-30

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  1. inspired by https://github.com/ezyang/ghstack ?
    comment by qihqi · 2026-07-30 · in Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub
  2. …a strong VC based motivation to become everyone's everything instead of a nice focused tool. [0] https://github.com/ezyang/ghstack I'm also not super happy with the default 3-way merge editor, but often cannot use vscode or other GUIs.
    comment by Zacharias030 · 2026-02-02 · in VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code
  3. https://github.com/ezyang/ghstack
    comment by swolchok · 2024-09-11 · in Some of us like "interdiff" code review
  4. I believe sapling uses https://github.com/ezyang/ghstack under the hood for stacked PR.
  5. …git, even though support is sub-optimal). It seems like this is an idea that is really sticky. [0] https://github.com/ezyang/ghstack
    comment by Zacharias030 · 2023-07-23 · in Why SQLite does not use Git (2018)
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    Ghstack: Auto-Update Interdependent PRs
    story by saiyan86 · 2023-03-10 · 0 comments
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    Ghstack: Submit stacked diffs to GitHub on the command line
    story by brrrrrm · 2022-11-03 · 0 comments
  8. How is this different from ghstack? https://github.com/ezyang/ghstack (which is what Edward Yang for PyTorch developers to mimic the stacked workflow, although it works with other repos).
  9. …I also wrote an equivalent tool (funnily named nearly the same thing) for doing stack diffs ( https://github.com/ezyang/ghstack/ ), which most of our team uses for more complicated PRs. The UX for working on commits is a bit different than…
  10. …me. I also showed it to a bunch of people I work with, and a lot of them have taken it up. Link: https://github.com/ezyang/ghstack If you're interested, I'm happy to talk you through it - just book some time here:…
    comment by ericyu3 · 2020-11-29 · in An ex-Googler’s guide to dev tools
  11. …with this too, but I think we found a pretty good solution! We found a tool called ghstack ( https://github.com/ezyang/ghstack ) that makes it easy to manage dependent PRs. A lot of us are now using it. Happy to show you how to use it -…
    comment by ericyu3 · 2020-11-22 · in Git is too hard
  12. …makes complex code changes so much easier to split up into manageable chunks. It's called ghstack ( https://github.com/ezyang/ghstack ) If you want to learn more you can email me at ericyu3@gmail.com. Also happy to help you get it up and…
    comment by ericyu3 · 2020-10-14 · in Fortunately, I don't squash my commits