Ask HN: Name for the "Law" that bigger PRs have fewer bugs?

1 points by PiersonMarks 2y ago ↗ HN

Is there a name for the law in software engineering where the larger the pull request is, the fewer bugs that are found?

Submit a 10 line PR -> ten bugs.

Submit a 1000 line PR -> zero bugs and a lgtm!

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dylanhassinger 2y ago ↗

bike shedding

quantified 2y ago ↗

Fatigue

syndicatedjelly 2y ago ↗

how about gish gallop PR? “Gish gallop” refers to the act of rapidly spewing many arguments so as to overwhelm the opponent, who cannot possibly respond to all of them

PiersonMarks 2y ago ↗

sounds like US politics! :)

syndicatedjelly 2y ago ↗

Close, it was named after an American creationist!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop