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ALL-REVI1001 · change_reviewability

Judge whether one change can be reviewed with reasonable confidence.

This is a contextual rule for all languages. Read its implementation.

Compare stated intent, changed concerns, size, generated portions, tests, risk, rollout, ownership, and possible decomposition. Line count is evidence rather than the verdict.

Findings cite change groups, intent, tests, risk, generated output, and review dependencies.

Mechanical migrations may be large when generation and semantic verification are reproducible.

A feature mixed with unrelated renaming and dependency upgrades is entangled. A generated API refresh with a reproducible schema diff is mechanical.

  • Cites “Google Engineering Practices”, small CLs
  • Cites “Software Engineering at Google”, Code Review
  • Cites “Best Kept Secrets of Peer Code Review”, code review effectiveness