Re: GitHub “pull request” is proprietary, incompatible with Git ‘request-pull’
Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> writes:
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 12:13:32PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
>> To those of you who are willing to use github for Debian related
>> things, it would be great if you could:
>> Mirror the repositories to alioth so Debian has a backup.
> I'd rather see it the other way around: advertise the alioth Git repo as
> the main one (e.g., in Vcs-* fields), and mirror it to GitHub for people
> who want to contribute via GitHub's pull requests.
I mirror the repositories on my own publicly-accessible Git server.
Hopefully that's good enough. :)
>> Also accept contributions via email or git request-pull.
> AOL.
Oh, certainly. (Well, like Neil, I've never heard of git request-pull
before this thread and have never seen anyone use it, but if someone did,
it would be an interesting learning opportunity.)
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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