A Guide to Perfecting Pull Requests

A presentation at Techorama NL in in Utrecht, Netherlands by Kara Luton

Writing clean and readable code is only half of the battle as a software engineer. The next step to overcome is the pull request. Now that we’re living in an asynchronous world, it’s more important than ever to concisely communicate what changes you’re making and why. In this talk, we’ll discuss what makes a good pull request including the title, the size of the PR and ways to make reviewing your pull request a fun time.

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