Re:Stacked Diffs (and why you should know about them)
by Liskni_si on Thursday October 26, 2023 @07:43AM
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> 1. … You'll need some rebase-fu to handle that, and the pain is significant if the chain is long.
`git rebase --update-refs` on the last branch will handle updating of all the intermediate branches in the stack, you just need to force-push them all at the end.
It does help with 2. as well, but you will indeed need to manually update the target branch of a single PR on GitHub.
> 1. … You'll need some rebase-fu to handle that, and the pain is significant if the chain is long.
`git rebase --update-refs` on the last branch will handle updating of all the intermediate branches in the stack, you just need to force-push them all at the end.
It does help with 2. as well, but you will indeed need to manually update the target branch of a single PR on GitHub.