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But why do you need email if git is already built for decentralized communication? That's the core of the problem. Just add the ability to ask for pull requests

But why do you need email if git is already built for decentralized communication? That's the core of the problem. Just add the ability to ask for pull requests, to comment, etc into git and nobody will build those insane protocol-on-top-of-a-protocol-to-communicate-with-a-side-protocol monstrosities.

imiric 3y ago
git-appraise[1] implements that concept. From Google, no less. I've never used it, or seen it used in the wild, but it always seemed intriguing, and like the obvious approach. The web UI traction is far greater for this to have any serious usage, but I wonder if Git had that ability from the start, if the web UI concept would've taken off as it did. [1]: https://github.com/google/git-appraise https://github.com/google/git-appraise
- xyzzy_plugh 3y ago
  Similarly Gerrit stores everything, including permissions, in Git as well. I'm not sure there is an offline review flow yet, though, but it's certainly possible.
phoe-krk 3y ago
> Just add the ability to ask for pull requests, to comment, etc into git That's a major understatement. To "just" add this into mainline git, you'd essentially need to either fork git itself in order to add these features or figure a way to add this without making breaking changes, and then convince git maintainers that your PR is worth adding, and then convince enough people to actually use this new standard in place of what they already have (which will also need them to integrate this with their existing forge infrastructure to mitigate XKCD Standards).