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Making Review Easy as the Author: Small PRs, Stacked PRs, Good Descriptions and Self-Review

The most effective way to make review easy is to keep each pull request small and single-purpose: 2059 of the 2721 lines in the coupon pull request were generated migration files, and splitting the rest into three stacked pull requests for refactoring, model and behaviour reduced each to one question. The post covers GitHub's native stacked pull requests, the template, drafts and self-review, and review rounds with fixups, --update-refs and range-diff.