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Viach Kakovskyi
Viach Kakovskyi

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Pull Requests: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

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Stephen Holdaway

Nice - more information is always better. The "why" of changes is particularly important for other devs and future you.

One step better is writing your detailed descriptions in the body of commit messages; then it's in the history and directly accessible through whatever interface you use to git blame. All of the Git web platforms support this well, including copying the commit body to the description of a pull request.

Facebook's tool Phabricator has an excellent article on writing reviewable code + writing good commit messages which goes into more detail.

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Viach Kakovskyi

Completely agree. The article which you mentioned is a great guidance.

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Connor Phee

Really enjoyed reading this! My team is currently trying to improve our process and I think you had some really good points/ideas that I will bring up to them!

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Viach Kakovskyi

That's great, Connor! All the things in the blog post are based on my practical experience playing as a team.