The pull request is just an alternative version of the patches linus used to receive via email. Git is equally well suited to both. At this point I don't thin

The pull request is just an alternative version of the patches linus used to receive via email. Git is equally well suited to both. At this point I don't think the tool does all that much advanced stuff, but the focus appears to be on understanding git at a level required to understand the more advanced features... so actually more focused on the semantics of git than on specific workflows.