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> I think GitHub added the “pull request” as a really useful add on to git and that really made it take off. Negative. The only thing GitHub added to the parla
by globular-toast 1y ago
> I think GitHub added the “pull request” as a really useful add on to git and that really made it take off.
Negative. The only thing GitHub added to the parlance is "forks" which are essentially like namespaced branches in the same repo.
- ants_everywhere 1y agoThe use of "fork" predates GitHub as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_(software_development) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_(software_development)
- globular-toast 1y agoYeah, it's an older term but forking in that sense is a pretty big deal. GitHub fork is just a button press and can be done basically automatically when you are interested in a repo.
- ants_everywhere 1y agoAh okay I see what you mean
- jazzyjackson 1y agoHow about an issue tracker that reacts to commit messages and pull requests?
- globular-toast 1y agoYeah, for me the most "magical" bit was when you pushed something to your fork and it would prompt you to make a pull request for it.