Splitting PRs...?

#programming #productivity #discuss #github

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?

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Joe Mainwaring • Feb 23 '23

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