# Surfacing Hidden Change to Pull Requests

DevFeed: [Surfacing Hidden Change to Pull Requests](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/surfacing-hidden-change-to-pull-requests-15903.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developer.squareup.com/blog/surfacing-hidden-change-to-pull-requests>)

Author: Jake Wharton

Published: 2017-07-13T19:34:14Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Jake Wharton](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/jake-wharton.md>), [Square Corner Blog RSS Feed](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/square-corner-blog-rss-feed.md>)

Topics: [Pull Request](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pull-request.md>), [Code review](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code-review.md>), [ci](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ci.md>), [Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming.md>), [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [Gradle](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gradle.md>), [Kotlin](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kotlin.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [ci](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ci.md>), [code-review](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code-review.md>), [dependencies](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dependencies.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [gradle](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gradle.md>), [kotlin](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kotlin.md>), [programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/programming.md>), [pull-request](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pull-request.md>)

## AI overview

The article describes how the Cash Android team surfaces hidden changes in pull requests. CI builds compare binary size and method count with the ancestor commit, post the differences as pull request comments, and capture dependency graph changes to help reviewers detect unintended effects.

## Source excerpt

Programming frequently deals in visible changes. It's equally as important to pay attention to hidden changes during code review.