• tatterdemalion@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    This does seem like a potential issue if the PR is itself implementing more than one vertical slice of a feature. Then it could have been smaller and there might be wasted effort.

    If the patches are small and well-organized then this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It will take more than one day to review it, but it clearly took much more time to write it.

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      1 year ago

      True, but at the same time its very possible to go too small. A bunch of one line code reviews can really slow progress easily.

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        1 year ago

        Right but it’s pretty rare that a tiny PR actually accomplishes a valuable user story.

        So my point is just that lines of code is mostly irrelevant as long as it’s organized well and does no more than necessary to accomplish the agreed upon goal.