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How does this work with a tool like jujutsu that provides native support for stacking and preferably don't have a separate tool mucking about with state?

Using a platform-specific tool feels like vendor lock-in. Given the recent trends, behavior, and activity of GitHub, it sure seems like this is the opposite of what the world should be going for generally.

Also if someone could help me understand: Are these so-called stacked commits not possible with multiple commits on a single branch? I prefer to write my commits as atomic, independent, related changes, on a single branch, with both Git and Mercurial. I am apparently missing something: why can't a better UI simply show a multi-change PR?

The CLI is not required and you can push up your bookmarks as branches and open stacked PRs via the UI. You can also use the gh CLI to just create the stacked PRs on github.com (essentially an API wrapper), without using it to manage local state.

It's a matter of taste, but I much prefer the workflow in the tool I hacked together for this, https://github.com/jlebar/git-pr-chain.

In the tool I wrote, you have a single branch with linear history. PRs in the chain are demarcated via commit messages. You then don't need any special rebase / sync commands -- you can use regular `git rebase -i` to reorder commits or edit a commit in the middle of a stack. Literally the only special command I need is "push this branch to github as multiple PRs".

Anyway I hope that alongside the branch-based you've built tool in `gh` that there will be an API that I can target.

Yup, there will be an API for stacks, just like there is one for regular PRs.

Any idea if/when this would be coming to GHE? I know the release cycle is way different but curious about your thoughts.

Yeah features need to be released as GA (general availability) before they can be included in GHES. I don't have a definitive timeline, but it will likely be end of this year or early next.

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