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Summary

Developers often face the challenge of dealing with blocked pull requests (PRs) due to dependencies, such as needing to build a feature on top of another unmerged one, which can impact meeting deadlines and workflow efficiency. Traditional options include waiting for PR approval, interrupting teammates for faster reviews, or merging dependent changes into a single large PR, which can complicate reviews and increase bug risk. A potential solution is stacking PRs, where one PR is built on top of another, allowing developers to continue work without creating excessively large PRs. However, this requires code review tools that can handle stacked changes, a feature commonly supported by platforms at companies like Facebook and Google but not yet widespread in public tools. Graphite is introduced as a new platform designed to fill this gap by enabling stacked changes on top of Git and integrating with GitHub, allowing developers to maintain their current workflows while benefiting from easier and faster code reviews. Currently in closed beta, Graphite aims to streamline the code review process for developers across various organizations.