Ask HN: How to deal with subjective comments in code reviews

I’m an easy going person, that means if I suggest A and you suggest B (and A and B are functionally equivalent) I’ll go for B. I just don’t care to fight such battles.

Nevertheless, from time to time I do suggest A, and my peer suggests B, and even though both are functionally equivalent, I find the choice of B to be of “poor taste”. This is highly subjective, of course, so convincing others is rather a futile exercise. At the end, I tend to go with B, but I don’t like it.

How do you deal with such situations?

On the other side, I never ever leave code review comments that are subjective.