GitHub's stacked pull requests are now GA. Approvals survive the rebase.
By Lior AharonovFounder, 7IT Solutions ·
On Tuesday 6 October 2026, GitHub made stacked pull requests generally available on all github.com plans. Rebase stack now keeps approvals on unchanged code and signs replacement commits, and a stack lands through the merge queue as one merge group. GitHub says repositories using stacks saw 9% more merged code than peers.
Picture the giant pull request nobody wants to review, open for a week. Stacks cut it into small reviews that merge together, and main moving ahead no longer wipes the approvals you already earned.
Pick your next large change and split it into a stack of small pull requests. If you run GitHub Enterprise Server, wait: GitHub says support comes in an upcoming release.
Big pull requests don't get reviewed. They get approved. Stacks are how you get real review back.
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