If it compiles it works, right?

I’m not gonna act like I read it all.

  • JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca
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    9 hours ago

    Not git, Perforce, but I used to have a guy on my team that would do weeks of work without checking in. 1000s of lines in 10s of files.

    I gave him shit for every code review, every time we had 1-on-1s, and while he was doing his tasks. Nothing got through to him.

    So I just kept dragging him back on check-ins. I’d nitpick the shit out of every line (and normally I hated that.) His stuff would inevitably break the build or be full of bugs anyway (duh) so I never felt bad that I was holding back his career since he was never getting things done “on time.”

    If you can’t/won’t break your work down into smaller chunks you aren’t a skilled programmer and/or don’t have respect for the people you work with who have to review your shit.

  • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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    8 hours ago

    The correct response to any PR that is too large to digest is to reject it and ask the author to split it up.

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      No it is not. It depends on the codebase - if it is something relatively new, a proof of concept or something that is bound to change soon, there is no point in slowing the development down just because it is “too large to digest”.

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      Sure but who’s got time for all that aggravation? Especially if it’s not part of the codebase I have to work with personally. LGTM and let it be someone else’s problem.

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    Statistically, at least half of changes are just indentation anyway