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LGTM

  1. Looks Good To Me
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɛl d͡ʒiː tiː ɛm/ / /el d͡ʒiː tiː em/ / /ɛl d͡ʒi ti ɛm/

phrase

Etymology: Said to have originated within Google, early 2000s, originally to give positive feedback on other people's work in a code review.

  1. Initialism of looks good to me.

    “The primary end goal of a code review is to get another engineer to consent to the change, which we denote by tagging the change as “looks good to me” (LGTM). We use this LGTM as a necessary permissions “bit” (combined with the other bits noted below) to allow the change to be committed.”