How to Navigate & Modify Stacked PRs

Learn how to navigate and modify StackedPRs with av tree when using Aviator's CLI.

Visualizing a stack

Run the command

av tree

to print out a visualization of the current PR stack.

Navigating a stack

Since a stack is (conceptually) a sequence of branches, navigating between different parts of the stack is as simple as running git switch <branch name>.

You can also use av switch to interactively switch the branches. Or you can use av prev and av next to navigate through branches in order.

Adding a commit to a branch within a stack

First, checkout the branch you want to add a commit to with

git checkout "<branch name>"

(note that after you commit, subsequent branches in the stack will also contain this commit).

Modify the repository using your normal development workflow, and when you're done, stage and add the changes:

av commit -a -m "<msg>"

av commit will automatically rebase all of the commits in the stack to include the new commit, without pushing them to GitHub. If instead you run git commit you can always resync the stack with av restack.

To rebase and push your changes to GitHub run

av sync