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house9-2 on April 24, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Better Model for Stacked Pull Requests

> create a longer lived branch and make small PRs to that.

I follow this pattern a lot, we call it an epic branch and usually name it something like `epic/foobar`

kqr on April 24, 2021 [–]

Yeah, that works as long as only one person does this, and they regularly merge into and out of master. Otherwise you still get all the communication and feedback problems long lived branches have.

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