GitHub's beta launched without Pull Requests, but we did have private messages…(twitter.com)
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GitHub's beta launched without Pull Requests, but we did have private messages…
https://twitter.com/defunkt/status/1623393340967501824
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Such a nice anecdote for a period I have (and will) never see. The idea of private messages seemed cool when compared to the massive issues list we have on GitHub now
Nowadays everyone already assumes that "pull request" = "web-based code review interface with a button to merge", and I find that unfortunate, but such change of meanings are common and we can only accept them.
But it still makes communication unnecessarily complicated when people have that assumption.
Like, if I host my code with cgit, I bet there's a whole generation of developers that don't even know they can clone my code, host it in their GitHub accounts, and send me a message telling me "hey, I forked your repo, you can pull the commits from my GitHub account if you want".
No need to mess with `git request-pull`, or even email at all.