# In praise of the stacked pull request

DevFeed: [In praise of the stacked pull request](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/in-praise-of-the-stacked-pull-request-37629.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://swizec.com/blog/in-praise-of-the-stacked-pull-request>)

Author: hi@swizec.com (Swizec Teller)

Published: 2026-02-04T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Swizec Teller](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/swizec-teller.md>)

Topics: [stacked pull requests](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/stacked-pull-requests.md>), [Code review](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code-review.md>), [Code quality](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code-quality.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Git](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/git.md>)

Tags: [code-quality](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code-quality.md>), [code-review](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code-review.md>), [git](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/git.md>), [merge](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/merge.md>), [pull-request](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pull-request.md>), [queue](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/queue.md>), [soc2](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/soc2.md>), [stacked-pull-requests](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/stacked-pull-requests.md>), [team](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/team.md>), [velocity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/velocity.md>)

## AI overview

An opinion piece argues that stacked pull requests help teams work on larger or dependent changes without creating oversized, difficult-to-review pull requests. It presents small, independent, testable pull requests as units of work that can be reviewed and merged incrementally.

## Source excerpt

How fast you do code review is how fast you do everything. Your PR queue is the leading indicator of team velocity. Stacked PRs can help.