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Re:Moving Fast with High Code Quality by deepGem on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @02:54AM (#9959903)
I can't agree more to this approach. Smaller changes are easy to review and manaage. We developers need a push to make this happen though.
Re:Moving Fast with High Code Quality by MaulingMonkey on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @04:34AM (#9960231)
This also needs proper VCS support - by which I mean DVCSes that let you pile commits up to the same files one after another sanely, or reviews after commit rather than before (better have a good branching setup!)

My last job was perforce (no unsubmitted commit stacking) with everyone developing directly against a single branch. In theory, code reviews were supposed to happen before hand.

In practice, I submitted small changes from the hip, and complained when my coworkers gave me a week long spitball of unrelated features in a single mega-commit. Not that I wasn't guilty of that myself. Bleh.