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| 2025-06-14 | Do code reviews prevent refactoring? | /daily/2025/06/14/do-code-reviews-prevent-refactoring |
Does having a strict code review process prevent or discourage refactoring?
If I want to make a very small refactor, like renaming a variable, am I likely to do that if I need to make a feature branch, create a merge request, and wait for multiple reviews from team members?
What if it takes a day or more for someone to review it?
Is it worth a reviewer's time to review a refactoring that could only be a single line of changed code?
Alternatively, what if you were doing trunk-based development and/or continuous integration?
What if you could make the small change, push it and have a CI pipeline automatically review it?
The whole process could be completed in minutes.
No long wait for manual code review and once you finish that refactoring, you may find another.