Every day you delay pushing a fix for whatever the pull request was accomplishing is a day you are punishing all the other users of your project, as well as rob

Every day you delay pushing a fix for whatever the pull request was accomplishing is a day you are punishing all the other users of your project, as well as robbing them of the benefits of the work done by the person who submitted the request. If I find an issue in your code and I submit a pull request or (more likely) file a detailed issue with associated patch, and I watch you try to block back onto me to edit it to your liking when I know it would take you less effort to just do that final work yourself, you are less likely to get me to care in the future to do the work to isolate an issue and potentially even likely to lose me as a downstream user of your code. I also definitely wouldn't want you force pushing a change with my name on it: if you are editing my code it isn't my code anymore... just commit the code as you. I am not playing some weird game where "credit" on a commit matters: I'm trying to get work done (as I'd hope we all are), and feel a need to be helpful to others instead of selfishly hoarding patches for myself. And if someone is playing such a game, it is probably better to discourage them of it rather than putting up with it.