https://abbreviatory.com/tags/code-review/ Recent content in code review on Abbreviatory.com Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://abbreviatory.com/how-to-see-the-shape-of-a-large-git-diff-before-reading-its-lines/ Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://abbreviatory.com/how-to-see-the-shape-of-a-large-git-diff-before-reading-its-lines/ Reviewing a big change starts with a question the diff doesn’t answer up front: what’s in here? git diff prints the first file’s first hunk and makes you scroll for the rest. A coding agent asked to review the same change reads all of it in order, and a 190 kB diff fills a good part of its context before it has seen the list of files. The diff in this example is a real one, Abbreviatory’s own changes from v0.