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Collaboration and specifically collaboration with non git nerds. That's primarily what made GitHub win the VCS wars back in the day. The pull request model appe
by oooyay 11mo ago
Collaboration and specifically collaboration with non git nerds. That's primarily what made GitHub win the VCS wars back in the day. The pull request model appealed to anyone who didn't want to learn crafting and emailing patches.
- simpaticoder 11mo agoYes, it's the PRs, and there is a misunderstanding I think because the OP and the GP's use-cases are quite different. Self-hosting your own repository on a remote server (and perhaps sharing it with 1 or 2 collaborators) is simple but quite different than running a public open source project that solicits contributions.
- SoftTalker 11mo agoI’d argue they if you can’t prepare a patch diff then your abilities as a contributing developer should be thoroughly questioned.
- bigfishrunning 11mo agoYes, the projects that are emailing patches around generally have a much higher bar then the ones that accept GitHub PRs, but whatever works for a given project I guess
- IgorPartola 11mo agoI specifically was talking about “personal projects” and excluded PRs for the reason that I would be the only contributor.