How I Read A Pull Request - Kevin Murphy

kept by eddie jan 26

Kevin Murphy shares a systematic PR-reading method using the five Ws, including test-first review, to improve code review quality.

In praise of the stacked pull request
Stacked pull requests, managed with tools like Graphite, keep code review fast and team velocity high by breaking large work into small, independent, mergeable units.
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Twenty Years of Stacking Commits — jd:/dev/blog
Stacked commits, not monolithic PRs, are the correct unit of code review—a truth Gerrit knew in 2008 that AI's speed and tooling like Mergify Stack are now forcing GitHub to finally admit with its native stacked PRs feature.
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