mcc@mcc@mastodon.social
Unrelated to anything: "Pull request" has always been a bad name. Always. They should have been named "Push requests".
mcc@mcc@mastodon.social
Ölbaum@oscherler@tooting.ch
@mcc@mastodon.social The name makes sense for the three people who used git before GitHub existed, so you had to yell across the open space to ask your colleague to pull from the repo sitting on your computer. 😀
Kevin P. Fleming@kevin@mastodon.km6g.us
@mcc@mastodon.social In the place where they originated the name made sense, and then GitHub ruined it.
Klara in the hidden land@klara@wandering.shop
@mcc@mastodon.social Thank you!
I'm used to them now, of course, but when Git[Hub] was just taking off I assumed for the longest time that, like, you had to have a server the project maintainer could reach and that a "pull request" was asking them to thus do a pull from your server. And therefore that if "pull requests" were how you contributed to a project, then if you didn't have a setup like this you should just get lost, because that must be a sign that you aren't Serious Enough about open source software.
R@r@glauca.space
@klara@wandering.shop @mcc@mastodon.social as far as I understand it, this was the original workflow, used by the kernel devs
of course, nobody else has ever done this
mcc@mcc@mastodon.social
@r@glauca.space @klara@wandering.shop doesn't lkml use an email based patch workflow?
Noisytoot@noisytoot@berkeley.edu.pl
@mcc@mastodon.social @r@glauca.space @klara@wandering.shop usually, but for larger changes they use pull requests over email. see man git-request-pull