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I consider myself a git novice, so please explain if I am wrong. But isn't a Pull Request basically: "I cloned your project and made a bunch of new commits, ple
by shuntress 10y ago
I consider myself a git novice, so please explain if I am wrong. But isn't a Pull Request basically: "I cloned your project and made a bunch of new commits, please pull from [url to repo with .git folder in it] to merge those changes in to your project"?
- Ajedi32 10y agoYeah, that's exactly what it is. Most Web UIs that implement pull requests though only support Pull Requests between repositories hosted on their platform. You can't just provide a url to an arbitrary git repo to pull from. In principle though, there's no reason they _couldn't_ implement a feature which would allow that.
- throwawayish 10y agoContributing by patches is even simpler, since you don't even need a place to host your repo. Instead you literally do "git format-patch some_base_ref" and get a bunch of files you mail someone. It doesn't get any simpler...