Copilot Idea: "Smart Staging"

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Since Jun 4, 2026.

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I frequently find myself with a set of changes that I really need to break up into separate PRs. It can be very time consuming to do this manually.

I think that Copilot could do a pretty decent job at this. It can ask whether the user wants to split into stacked PRs (where one depends on another), or independent PRs. Bonus points if it can make build/test succeed in each of them before submitting the PR, and deal with the inevitable merge conflicts.

I was able to get a decent result from just a prompt, but it was slow and not particularly pretty in terms of UX.

/cc @isidorn

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