I believe the definition of trunk-based development presented is not aligned with the widespread one. Trunk-based development is a methodology where "everyone works in the main branch" and, if there are other branches, they are short-lived, i.e. less than a day. That would render Stacked PRs as basically the opposite of trunk-based development, since to stack PRs, one assumes a single PR (and thus a branch), will live for several days because otherwise it would not be worth the overhead. Have a look a this talk from MSFT: Git patterns and anti-patterns for successful developers : Build 2018