It depends. If looking at the diffs isn’t enough to really understand the change, then yeah, I’m pulling it down. I can more easily navigate using static analys

It depends. If looking at the diffs isn’t enough to really understand the change, then yeah, I’m pulling it down. I can more easily navigate using static analysis tools that way. I can also play with it too to find edge cases. I certainly wouldn’t make it a requirement of reviewers. I leave it to them to make their own determination on whether a patch is satisfactory.