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by fuzzy2 1809 days ago
> git and Linux practice only commit-level review.

I don’t think that’s an accurate way to put it. AFAIK you just send in patch files. They create a single commit, yes, but I see it as equivalent to a PR. The rules of what can be in a single patch could be stricter than typical PRs on other projects, dunno.

> Commit history is just as subject to review as the contents of diffs.

I wish. Maybe I’ll work on a better team on the future.

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what I mean is, take any arbitrary patch thread off the front page of https://public-inbox.org/git/ and look at how people review them. they reply to the relevant commit. if you reply to the cover letter it's not a code review at all, but a more general comment on the whole branch (e.g., "do we want this feature" or something).

you definitely don't send your branch as a single patch (unless it is small and really is best expressed as a single patch). if you did you would be asked to break it up.