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How to Make Your Code Reviewer Fall in Love with You

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Best practices for code review when you're the author.

When people talk about code reviews, they focus on the reviewer. But the developer who writes the code is just as important to the review as the person who reads it. There's scarcely any guidance on preparing your code for review, so authors often screw up this process out of sheer ignorance. This article describes best practices for participating in a code review when you're the author. In fact, by the end of this post, you're going to be so good at sending out your code for review that your reviewer will literally fall in love with you . But I don't want my reviewer to fall in love with me…

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