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It has nothing to do with Git, it's just the name Github uses. GitLab calles it a "Merge request", which is more fitting IMO.

• chunky1994 11y ago
  That's actually not true. git-pull (which is where the pull request comes from) is in the git manpages. Specifically it is: Fetch from and integrate with another repository or a local branch. Which is basically a git fetch and merge from the submitters repository to the repository they are submitting to. EDIT: Admittedly if you are talking specifically of the request part, then you are correct. However the name comes directly from git's pull command which is a feature of git.
  • icebraining 11y ago
    But it makes sense in git, since it's written from the perspective of the user pulling the commits, not from the user sending them.
• hyperchase 11y ago
  Pull-request makes sense in Github, because the typical work-flow for open-source on Github is to fork the repo you want to contribute to. Hence, the maintainer has to pull the code from you. Merge-request makes more sense in Gitlab because they're main use-case is as a self-hosted internal tool where developers most-likely are pushing all of their feature branches to a central repository and asking for the branch to be merged into the mainline branch.