Ask HN: How do you conduct code reviews online?

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I have been doing code reviews for a friend who's learning to program and would like the ability to comment on and write/move his code around without actually changing it, a la suggestions in word processors, so that he can go back, look over my comments/changes, and think about questions.

Is there anything out there for this kind of code review?

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I've only used GitHub Pull-Requests for that, and I guess it's the perfect way. Your friend could create one pull-request for each chunk of changes (better when scoped to one feature), and then you go visit the PR to enter comments on his changes.

If you want something a bit better than GitHub pull requests, try out https://reviewable.io (disclosure: founder). That said, I don't know of any code review tools that let you make "suggested edits" for the reviewee's approval. Might be a neat feature for me to add to Reviewable!

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