What You Should Look Out For When You Review Pull Request
You just graduated with Computer Science degree and started your first job as junior developer. Thanks to your final year project, you equipped yourself with some coding experience which landed you in this job.
After a few days of honey moon period of onboarding, you are added to company enterprise Github. You know what Github is because it’s where pushed your final year project source code. You’re assigned to you first project with a few members working in the same code base. Coding starts.
A few hours later, you received email from GitHub. Someone in your team is requesting your review on his pull request. You don’t even know what pull request is or how to review it.
This story will briefly explain what pull request is and why it is important. If you’re already familiar with the definition, skip to the main point, which is the 9 questions you should ask yourself when reviewing a pull request.
What is Pull Request?
Pull requests let you tell others about changes you’ve pushed to a branch in a repository on GitHub. Once a pull request is opened, you can discuss and…
