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Best practices
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Is maintaining manual per-file and per-function change logs alongside Git considered a professional practice in 2026?
I’m working on a project where we already use modern version control practices:
Git with GitFlow branching
Pull requests with mandatory reviews
Conventional commit messages
CI-based checks
Despite ...
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GItHub restrict list of reviewers are allowed for a branch
Our team is working on a projects that involves multiple developers contributing to a repository on GitHub Enterprise. We'd like to implement a stricter approval process for pull requests targeting ...
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How do I hide generated files in a PR on GitHub?
When I am about to review a pull request on GitHub, I look at the lines of code changed to get an idea of how time-consuming the review will be.
However, many projects include a bunch of generated ...
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Github PR: Approval needed after approval has already been given?
I approved a PR, and see:
"approved these changes now"
but then right below that I still see:
"At least 1 approving review is required by reviewers with write access."
I went to ...
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GitHub PR only me can see Code Review, and no one else
The problem I noticed that no one except the GitHub repo owner (me) can see a code review.
Example PRs:
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On the first screenshot is what I can see (the PR review started), and next (second ...
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Compare enum values for being greater than or less than
My question may seem dumb, but I couldn't find a proper answer for it after searching for a while.
Imagine we have an enum called MissionStateEnum as below(since I am a c# developer I'm writing my ...
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How do I get the approvers of a pull request using GitHub Actions / Workflows?
In a GitHub Action.
From all of the reviewers of a pull request
The people who have approved said pull request
I want to get their username.
I am expecting there is a value I can pass to a "step&...
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Improve git diffs when renaming and changing files
I'm converting quite a lot of code from JavaScript to TypeScript, which means:
rename files from .js to .ts
add type annotations etc
Of course in many cases, such a refactoring can be substantial, ...
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How to configure PullApprove to send requests to a subset of a team that can submit approvals?
I'm using PullApprove v3 for GitHub PRs. I have a larger team general-team and a smaller team specific-team. specific-team is a subset of general-team.
I want to allow PR approvals from anyone on ...
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BitBucket: Allow reviews post merge (a la GitHub)
In Bitbucket, on any Pull Request, reviews are disabled after the PR is merged.
I'd like to continue to allow reviews after a PR is merged. Is this possible?
NOTE: I am not asking about requiring ...
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Does commiting to one file revoke all approvals provided to github pull request or not?
I have a pull request that makes changes to multiple files and codeowners of those files are different.
Example:
File_1 has codeowners X,Y,Z
File_2 has codeowners A,B
Initially X,Y and Z approved the ...
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Exclude files/directories from code review requirement
Our github repo includes a directory containing language translation files. These are generated automatically from a database. Ideally we should find a way to deploy these through some other mechanism ...
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What is Crucible's "Add Latest" equivalent in GitHub?
I'm use to using Crucible on code reviews, but we started using Github pull-request. I've created a pull-request and now completed the changes suggested by one of the code reviewers. What I did was I ...
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Git how to rebase onto empty branch for code reviews
I'm following this recipe: https://thib.me/recipe-code-reviews-for-existing-code-with-github. In the interactive rebase step, I'm adding a pick line for the empty commit created in review-1-target ...
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Documentation pull request review
I am used to document code reviews using a software called collaborator (https://smartbear.com/product/collaborator/overview/)
Is there there any way we can create similar reports from GitHub pull ...