Ask HN: What steps to take to ensure your merge request doesn't break anything?

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- merge the smallest possible atomic changes regularly, avoid big bang merge

- if you can afford it, code reviews / pair programming

- unit tests ran by CI before/after merging

Also, automated integration tests and end to end tests.