alt Hacker News> Something is a small-change if it meets all of these criteria it is less than 1,000 lines of code
Only my personal view but even 1000 LoC is not a "small change".
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skydhash • yesterday at 11:18 PM
Yep a small changes is one computer screen of diff (36 to 48 lines) excluding generated changes (lock files, formatted files,…)
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This struck me too, but I think it is intentionally a high limit to prevent problems like relatively low impact/high LoC tests from tipping a small change into a large one. That would encourage gamification like skipping useful scenarios to keep a change "small".
The other criteria are more important.