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Re: idea: light-weight pull requests

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Paul Wise <pabs3@bonedaddy.net>
Date
Feb 7, 2017, 01:22 UTC
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On Mon, 2017-02-06 at 19:57 -0500, Santiago Torres wrote:
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> IMHO, the notion of a PR/MR is more specific to Git repository
> management tools (e.g., GitHub, GitLab). They all have specific
> concepts/ways to manage the way how their hosted repositories behave ---
> and I believe this flexibility is one of the beauties in Git . I could
> see how this could be implemented by tools like this rather easily
> (e.g., using symlinks + inotify or something less hacky).

Right, but I would like to see this everywhere (including kernel.org), so support in git-daemon and the http/ssh equivalents is needed too. git already has support for anonymous push but this idea is more complex.

> I'm wondering if standardizing this would be more interesting to those
> communities?

I've pitched this to github.com/contact but couldn't find any feature request address for GitLab.

> I would like to see what becomes of this.
Likewise :)
-- 
bye,
pabs

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