For non-trivial reviews, when there are files with several changes, I tend to do the following in Git:

  1. Create local branch for the pr to review
  2. Squash if necessary to get everything in the one commit
  3. Soft reset, so all the changes are modifications in the working tree
  4. Go thru the modificiations “in situ” so to speak, so I get the entire context, with changes marked in the IDE, instead of just a few lines on either side.

Just curious if this is “a bit weird”, or something others do as well?

(ed: as others mentioned, a squash-merge and reset, or reset back without squashing, is the same, so step 2 isn’t necessary:))

  • Ephera
    3•8 months ago

    I hadn’t yet tried squashing + reset, that seems like a smart idea, but yeah, I don’t particularly like the usual PR review UIs.

    I do the merge via CLI anyways, so might as well check out the code for the review and then view it in my IDE + be able to run it and such.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•8 months ago

      If you’re using the CLI and cleaning up a branch for a PR, the interactive rebase is a godsend. Just run git rebase -i origin/main (or whatever your target branch is) and you can reorder/squash/reword commits.