On: Hub: Wraps Git with extra features that make working with GitHub easier

[techman9]

Pretty essential if you're working on a project hosted on Github. I primarily use it to make PR's from the command line, but that alone is a huge win.

[pawadu → techman9]

Maybe its just me, but I would rather have PR functionality in git itself.

Linus, please make it happen :)

[techman9 → pawadu]

Git already has quasi-"pull request" functionality by a different name.

It's possible to use https://git-scm.com/docs/git-request-pull and an out of band communication tool (Email, Slack) to achieve the same basic functionality. Take a look at https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Distributed-Git-Contributing-... for more info about the baked-in review and contributing tools.

[Sharlin → pawadu]

How would that work? Besides starting completely new centralized git service to compete with github and co? Anyway, git already has a "pull request" system in the form of git send-email and related commands.

[abritinthebay → Sharlin]

I know Linus probably would not agree but emails aren't a substitute for a pull request system: they're a bandaid to compensate for the lack of one.

I agree it would require additions to git & some kinda of standard around it but it's telling that every major git system in use "solves" this problem.

[pawadu → Sharlin]

That system works for Linus since that is how he works. However, it doesn't seem to work for most other people.

We need a system to do this in a standardized that works across service providers. I don't want to create a dummy github account only to submit a PR.