Well you answered your own question - it's slightly more convenient to you, but less convenient for the repo owner. That said, some projects certainly do all th

Well you answered your own question - it's slightly more convenient to you, but less convenient for the repo owner. That said, some projects certainly do all their patch/merge over email since before github existed (like Linux kernel dev) and have no plans to change that. You've probably seen discussion with Linus Torvalds about the problems with "pull request" model for his workflow: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-5654674 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56546...