GitHub is actively exploring stacked diff support for its product roadmap
Jared Palmer · ⚡ Inside GitHub’s AI Revolution: Jared Palmer Reveals Agent HQ & The Future of Coding Agents · Nov 10, 2025 · at 34:13
Jared Palmer, SVP at GitHub, explains that GitHub is actively evaluating how to introduce stacked diff workflows into GitHub's core Git architecture.
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“So anyway, we're, we had cold meetings internally already, and we're trying to weave it into the planning and the roadmap, and so hopefully we'll be able to share more updates soon, but like, it's a Top of the list known feature. And so, and like, we're working on it, obviously, like something the size of GitHub to move to like support this kind of new, this new feature is like, not just like a walk in the park because of the size of GitHub's and GitHub's Git implementation, but it's something that we're actively exploring.”
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