Code Reviews Need Order
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I am the founder at SourceField - I'm on a mission to solve the code review problem - to make code reviews suck less.
I've always wondered what order I should review the code in with large PRs...
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Will Braun3y ago
I feel that! I’m new to this but reading top to bottom doesn’t seem to work.
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