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Okay, I guess that is a feature. It generates a plain text file you can send to someone else via email; the person can respond by taking manual action on their git command line. Definitely not the github pull requests people are used to. On 12/4/2012 1:16 PM, MJ Ray wrote: > Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]> >> On 12/4/2012 12:10 PM, MJ Ray wrote: >>> Really? I hoped if I wanted to do serious hacking, I could clone it on >>> git.software.coop and send a pull request. If you use github *and >>> insist everyone else does* then you lose all the decentralised networked >>> collaboration benefits of git and it becomes a worse-and-better CVS. >> >> A "pull request" is a feature of github.com. There is no feature of >> git-the-software called "a pull request". > > I don't think that's correct. GitHub was only launched in April 2008, > but here's a pull request from 2005: > http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0507.3/0869.html > > Here's the start of the relevant page in the git software manual: > > [quote] > NAME > git-request-pull - Generates a summary of pending changes > > SYNOPSIS > git request-pull [-p] <start> <url> [<end>] > > DESCRIPTION > Summarizes the changes between two commits to the standard output, and > includes the given URL in the generated summary. > [/quote] > >> Which of course doens't stop you from sending an email requesting a >> pull. A "pull", including from decentralized third party repos, is a >> feature of git. > > It sucks that github doesn't accept emails of such git pull requests > and do anything useful with them. Ignoring the huge potential of > email coordination seems like missing a big feature of git. > >> But yes, if you get used to the features of a particular free service, >> you get locked into that particular free service. [...] > > If one is locked in, that means it has an exit cost, so it's no longer > a free service. The piper might just not need payment yet. > > Hope that explains, >