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		jas14 on Nov 17, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stacked changes: how FB and Google engineers stay ... I still haven't found a reliable way to prevent merging branches that aren't the first in the stack :/

fosterfriends on Nov 17, 2021 | [–]

(Graphite engineer) We had the same problem. Coded in a feature that prevents you from casually merging branches that are not bottom of the stack :)

_freds on Nov 18, 2021 | [–]

What I usually do is if I need to stack more PRs I open them as a draft to avoid accidental merges. I then convert each PR to a non-draft as I “pop” the stack.

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