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Pull requests aren't about mistrust

Jonathan Hall on April 04, 2021

Lately I’ve seen several people reacting against the idea of pull requests, on the basis that pull requests are a mechanism to safeguard against un...
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Kevin Gilpin

Agree. For example on our team we frequently open a Draft PR as soon as the first commit is pushed. The review is more continuous that way and it’s also normal to have several Drafts in progress by a single developer. That way the blocking of a single PR by review is not as big of a deal. People are in different time zones after all. A few other thoughts here - dev.to/appland/beginners-mind-how-...

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Jonathan Hall • Edited

Draft PRs are good, although if there are may of them, I start to wonder if the PRs themselves are too big.

I tend to create many PRs per day, often containing only a single commit.

Large PRs usually man you're not doing continuous integration. jhall.io/whatisci/