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Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman

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The Importance of Small Diffs

The next extension of this idea is something I call limbo, where you have a bunch of people working on the same code base and they're constantly pushing their changes. So then you want the diffs to be as small as possible to presumably remove friction around the things that are all implied when someone makes a diff. A friend of mine, Sorov, Moapatra came up with that name, because the limbo song asks you how low can you go? How small could we make diffs? If you can make diffs teensy tiny and safe, then you don't have to review them beforehand. And for that matter in production, if they're if they're truly safe, then

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