Review Size Guardrails
Recall practical review-size and pacing guardrails.
What is the practical size warning for a review? When a PR grows beyond a few hundred human-written lines, attention and defect detection usually degrade. Use judgment; generated files and mechanical changes should be reviewed differently from logic. “Splitting the PR will slow us down.” A PR mixes rename-only changes, behavior, tests, and migration. Say Splitting the mechanical rename from behavior should make the risky part faster to review and reduce rework. One huge PR feels faster until every reviewer has to reconstruct the same mixed context. It argues from review quality and total cycle time, not reviewer convenience. Mechanical…
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