A pull request is easier to review when its purpose is clear and its diff tells one coherent story. Splitting unrelated work reduces the chance that an important behavior change gets hidden in formatting or cleanup.
Choose a useful boundary
- Separate mechanical refactoring from behavior changes when that makes the result easier to verify.
- Keep a pull request small enough to review, but do not split it so far that each piece is meaningless on its own.
- Describe dependencies between changes and the order in which they should land.
Make the review path explicit
Explain the user or system outcome, the important implementation choice, and how you tested it. Link related issues or follow-up work rather than silently expanding the current scope.
Before requesting review, read the diff as someone unfamiliar with the task. Remove generated noise and flag any intentionally incomplete part.