by CharlieDigital 4 days ago
I don't think this is it. The main driver is that several operations in GH are scoped around a PR, not a commit. So the reason you need stacked PRs is that the layer of tooling above `git` is designed to work on logical groups of commits called a PR.
Right, the argument against: "how is this any different than splitting into single commits?" is simply: In general you want just one level above a commit which is the PR