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GitHub Targets Large Merge Problem with Stacked PRs

Matt Saunders — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:00:00 GMT

GitHub has launched a native stacked pull request workflow through a new CLI extension called gh-stack, closing a gap that third-party tools have filled for several years. It aims to resolve the problem where large pull requests are hard to review, slow to merge and prone to conflicts, with GitHub stating that reviewers lose context, feedback quality drops, and the whole team slows down.

By Matt Saunders

GitLab Adds Flat-Rate Code Reviews, Free-Tier AI Access, and Spending Caps

Matt Saunders — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:00:00 GMT

Open-core DevOps vendor GitLab has shipped versions 18.10 and 18.11 of its DevSecOps platform, with changes that give agentic AI to users on the free tier, that cut the per-review cost of automated code analysis, and give administrators hard limits on how much teams can spend on AI credits each month.

By Matt Saunders

Dropbox Collaborates with GitHub to Reduce Monorepo Size from 87GB to 20GB

Leela Kumili — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:14:00 GMT

Dropbox reduced its backend monorepo from 87GB to 20GB by optimizing Git delta compression in collaboration with GitHub. The changes improved clone times, CI performance, and developer velocity, highlighting how repository storage inefficiencies can impact large-scale engineering workflows.

By Leela Kumili