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date: 2025-06-14
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title: Do code reviews prevent refactoring?
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permalink: /daily/2025/06/14/do-code-reviews-prevent-refactoring
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Does having a strict code review process prevent or discourage refactoring?
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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?
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What if it takes a day or more for someone to review it?
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Is it worth a reviewer's time to review a refactoring that could only be a single line of changed code?
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Alternatively, what if you were doing trunk-based development and/or continuous integration?
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What if you could make the small change, push it and have a CI pipeline automatically review it?
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The whole process could be completed in minutes.
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No long wait for manual code review and once you finish that refactoring, [you may find another](/daily/2025/06/13/refactorings-should-be-small).
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