Read the Diffs
February 3rd, 2009
And again Eric Sink writes things that I tend to agree with –
Do you work as part of a software team? Here’s a piece of advice for you:
Read the diffs.
Every morning before you start your own coding tasks, use your favorite diff tool to look at all the changes that everybody else checked in the day before.
via Read the Diffs.
We, in the Skoosh development team use this quite a lot. Our code is in CVS and we use a neat tool called CVSSpam which emails colored diffs of all commits submitted to the repository to all the developers.
So many times I’ve discovered bugs (including my own) just by reading the diffs in the email after the commit. It’s really a nice (and easy) way to review the code.
