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Ask HN: Name for the "Law" that bigger PRs have fewer bugs?
Is there a name for the law in software engineering where the larger the pull request is, the fewer bugs that are found?
Submit a 10 line PR -> ten bugs.
Submit a 1000 line PR -> zero bugs and a lgtm!
- dylanhassinger 3y agobike shedding
- quantified 3y agoFatigue
- syndicatedjelly 3y agohow about gish gallop PR? “Gish gallop” refers to the act of rapidly spewing many arguments so as to overwhelm the opponent, who cannot possibly respond to all of them
- PiersonMarks 3y agosounds like US politics! :)
- syndicatedjelly 3y agoClose, it was named after an American creationist! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop