Comment by jiveturkey

You "just" need to know the original merge-base of PR B to fix this. github support is not really required for that. To me that's the least valuable part of support for stacked PRs since that is already doable yourself.

The github UI may change the target to main but your local working branch doesn't, and that's where you `rebase --onto` to fix it, before push to origin.

It's appropriate for github to automatically change the target branch, because you want the diff in the ui to be representative. IIRC gitlab does a much better job of this but this is already achievable.

What is actually useful with natively supported stacks is if you can land the entire stack together and only do 1 CI/actions run. I didn't read the announcement to see if it does that. You typically can't do that even if you merge PR B,C,D first because each merge would normally trigger CI.

EDIT: i see from another comment (apparently from a github person) that the feature does in fact let you land the entire stack and only needs 1 CI run. wunderbar!