A Guide to Perfecting Pull Requests
summary
Advice focuses on concrete rules and tools: avoid a 1300‑line PR, prefer splitting work and making one PR per version, and keep reviews under 200 to 400 lines based on a Cisco study. Use clear commit subjects and bodies, adopt conventional commits, rebase or squash to make linear history, add screenshots or record walkthroughs with QuickTime, and annotate commits. Use GitHub/GitLab resolve‑comment features and open follow‑up tickets for out‑of‑scope suggestions so merges happen only after every comment is addressed.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:14A GUIDE TO PERFECTING PULL REQUESTS
- 4:17ORGANIZING YOUR COMMITS
- 5:50THE SIZE OF OUR STORY
- 7:47HOW TO BREAK DOWN PULL REQUESTS
- 8:44OUR STORY'S INTRODUCTION
- 9:54THE PR DESCRIPTION
- 13:07ADDING VISUALS
- 15:13BECOME YOUR OWN REVIEWER
- 18:54ADDRESS ALL COMMENTS
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