> My understanding is that pull request is a GitHub-ism. It is, but git has a command called request-pull[1]. Linus Torvalds has said[2] that certain aspects

> My understanding is that pull request is a GitHub-ism. It is, but git has a command called request-pull[1]. Linus Torvalds has said[2] that certain aspects of the Github pull request process are not suitable or make it very difficult to submit patchsets for review for the linux kernel and that they should have followed the implemention used in git-request-pull instead. [1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-request-pull https://git-scm.com/docs/git-request-pull [2] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-5654674 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56546...