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It's how git was created to operate. The linux kernel, probably the largest software project in history, only operates through emailed patch files too.
by qbasic_forever 5y ago
It's how git was created to operate. The linux kernel, probably the largest software project in history, only operates through emailed patch files too.
- cxr 5y agoLinux uses pull requests, too, it's just that it uses them the way they were meant to be used—among a limited cohort of collaborators frequently pulling from one another—instead of GitHub-style pull requests that have little to do with Git-the-tool and that everyone gets shunted through, even when a patch (or three) would be more appropriate.
- charcircuit 5y agoWindows is bigger than Linux and they don't use a mailing list workflow with git.
- cxr 5y agoCode size is not what the other commenter was referring to when they wrote "largest". There are of course other projects with more LOC than the Linux kernel.