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Named stacks: give a stack a human-readable name/description #611

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@psiha

Stacks are identified only by a number (e.g. #2213). In repositories with several long-lived stacks it is hard to tell them apart in the stack UI and in gh stack view without opening each one.

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  • An optional name (and short description) per stack, settable at creation and later, e.g. gh stack init --name <name>, gh stack link --name <name> ..., and a way to rename an existing stack.
  • Show the name in the stack UI on PRs and in gh stack view.
  • Accept the name wherever a stack number is accepted (e.g. gh stack checkout <name>, gh stack link <name> <pr>...).

Workarounds today (a shared branch-name prefix, a descriptive title on the bottom PR) are not shown in the stack UI and stop working once the bottom PR merges.

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  1. ManuelEthon commented on Nov 3, 2026

    @ManuelEthon

    +1 - The Github repo's stack overview page would also get more useful then. Currently this page only lists all the stacks without name/author/content/whatsoever and therefore is completely useless.

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