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GitHub too is useful for solo work: you can code review your own code.

I’ve found it useful because it’s in a separate context/UI (GitHub web view) as opposed to your code editor or even git diff on command line.

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I tell people all the time not to underestimate the value of PRing your own code even if you are the only one reviewing the code. You can still use GitHub's merge time checks (including setting up your CI/CD builds and PR integration), even if it is just a solo project. You can use PR merge commits as your "clean level" instead of worrying as much about rebase/squash (and tools like --first-parent in git log and git bisect from your main branch).

I always do a file by file sweep of my merge requests on gitlab before sending them to peer review. Usually it only finds commented code or console logs but its worth it and pretty fast to do a final check.

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