Is there an easy way to create multiple PRs at once?

[bradneuman]

I'm coming from tools like git spr and a common workflow for me on a new feature is to make a feature branch and then interactively rebase it into multiple PRs (to keep each PR small and related). Then I'll push these all up at once, and may continue working on this chain / stack as I wait for feedback.

I'm looking for something like git machete github create-pr --all which, rather than creating a single PR containing all branches machete knows about, would create one PR per branch. E.g., if I have this:

  main
  │
  └─brad/feat1
    │
    └─brad/sub-feat-on-1
      │
      └─brad/feat-2

and each of these branches is not tracking an upstream, nor pushed, nor has a PR, then I run git machete github create-pr what I get is:

  main
  │
  └─brad/feat1
    │
    └─brad/sub-feat-on-1
      │
      └─brad/feat-2  PR #523

Where 523 is a single PR that contains all commits from all 3 of those branches. What I want is something like this:

  main
  │
  └─brad/feat1  PR #523
    │
    └─brad/sub-feat-on-1  PR #524
      │
      └─brad/feat-2  PR #525

With separate stacked PRs for each named branch.

I can do this manually via git machete go and create-prs one at a time, but that's a bit annoying and possibly error prone if I miss one.

Alternatively, I think this suggestion to support this behavior during traverse might work for me, if it were implemented: #1241

[ccoVeille]

I have no idea if git-machete could support this

But thanks for letting me know git spr

I assume it's this project
https://github.com/ejoffe/spr

I will give it a try

[bradneuman]

Yeah that's the one. It has some pros but I'm ultimately looking to move away from it because:

• 1 commit == 1 PR makes it hard for reviewers to follow what's going on (you need to force push)
• It seems to leave tons of dead branches around, both locally and on github, which is a bit annoying
• It isn't super duper stable and can get into weird states that can be a little tricky to recover from (mostly I think this was because I reordered some commits)

But its github integration is really nice

[PawelLipski]

Hey, this will be implemented soon as a part of traverse flow, controlled by a flag (something like --sync-github-prs)

[bradneuman]

Thanks, looking forward to trying it

[PawelLipski]

Update, there's already git machete traverse --sync-github-prs that allows for retargeting PRs from traverse (PR #1340, to be released as v3.32.0 soon). #1241 will follow soon