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He's getting downvotes because he's persistently overgeneralizing from his unfortunate, legitimate lived experience to a bunch of dogmatic claims about the fundamental nature of the pull requests that contradict many other people's own lived experience.


I'm simply pointing out that the workflow of the pull request is made for a different workflow than what you normally have inside a team in a company, and it therefor quite a bad fit. And illustrating this with a few examples.

I'm getting downvoted because I'm criticising developers favorite tools that lets them pretend to be Linus Thorvalds for a moment.


No it isn't, though. It's not like there's a "right way" to run a team. The teams I've been on that didn't review code always ended up imploding because because people rationalize their innocent corner-cutting when they don't have to deal with the embarrassment of sending it off to anyone.




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