Splitting PRs...?

When you work on large bodies of work, stacked PRs don't work...but you can't always split it up. What do you do with large PRs?

Comments

[Joe Mainwaring]

PR size is secondary for me when considering how I'm packaging my code.

Ideally - my PRs are small enough to be easily consumable by reviewers, but the PR has to be able to land in the codebase and not block other collaborators on a given project.

When I do have a large PR, what I do to make it easier for my reviewers:

• Add commentary in the PR to specfiic files and code blocks
• I'll ask reviewers to break their reviews into multiple passes where they review a set of files that are finalized
• Bribery