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> Git comes with a nice pull-request generation module, Can anybody explain a little more about this module? I thought 'pull request' is Github only.

shmerl 9y ago
Also, should it really be called merge request? What exactly are they pulling during the merge?
- khedoros1 9y ago
  They're pulling changes from another repository. A pull request is a request for someone else (the maintainer) to pull the changes that you're submitting into their repo. You aren't pushing; you're requesting for them to pull. GitLab apparently does call them merge requests, though.
  - shmerl 9y ago
    Github calls it pull, even if it's within the same repo, but from different branch. It essentially is a merge anyway.
- thethirdone 9y ago
  You are pulling the commits from another repository. The base repository is behind the forked repository and the forker is asking the base to incorporate (pull) the changes (commits).
  - shmerl 9y ago
    Why does it need to focus on who is doing it? I think merge is generic enough term that can describe both actors (i.e. if you for example have a right to write into upstream, you can merge it yourself, without asking the primary owner.
    - aisofteng 9y ago
      Because otherwise it wouldn't work.
mi100hael 9y ago
You'd run "git format-patch" to create a .patch file with the diff of changes for a commit, and then run "git send-email" to send an email with the patch as the contents (optionally with additional comments). The recipient can then run "git apply" to apply the patches to their tree and push the changes. For "private" repos, the recipient would be a specific repo maintainer/owner. For "public" repos like the Linux kernel, the recipient is usually a publicly-archived mailing list.
u801e 9y ago
It's known as git request-pull [1]. The generated text would have to be sent to the ones you would want to pull from the repository you host. [1] https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-request-pull.html https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-request...

shmerl 9y ago

Also, should it really be called merge request? What exactly are they pulling during the merge?

khedoros1 9y ago
They're pulling changes from another repository. A pull request is a request for someone else (the maintainer) to pull the changes that you're submitting into their repo. You aren't pushing; you're requesting for them to pull. GitLab apparently does call them merge requests, though.
- shmerl 9y ago
  Github calls it pull, even if it's within the same repo, but from different branch. It essentially is a merge anyway.
thethirdone 9y ago
You are pulling the commits from another repository. The base repository is behind the forked repository and the forker is asking the base to incorporate (pull) the changes (commits).
- shmerl 9y ago
  Why does it need to focus on who is doing it? I think merge is generic enough term that can describe both actors (i.e. if you for example have a right to write into upstream, you can merge it yourself, without asking the primary owner.
  - aisofteng 9y ago
    Because otherwise it wouldn't work.

mi100hael 9y ago

You'd run "git format-patch" to create a .patch file with the diff of changes for a commit, and then run "git send-email" to send an email with the patch as the contents (optionally with additional comments). The recipient can then run "git apply" to apply the patches to their tree and push the changes. For "private" repos, the recipient would be a specific repo maintainer/owner. For "public" repos like the Linux kernel, the recipient is usually a publicly-archived mailing list.

u801e 9y ago

It's known as git request-pull [1]. The generated text would have to be sent to the ones you would want to pull from the repository you host. [1] https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-request-pull.html https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-request...