Re: GitHub “pull request” is proprietary, incompatible with Git ‘request-pull’

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>]

]] Ian Campbell 

> On Thu, 2015-04-23 at 08:12 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> > ]] Paul Wise 
> > 
> > > Also accept contributions via email or git request-pull.
> > 
> > How do I set up a service to accept git request-pull pull requests into
> > a workflow? There does not seem to be any protocol associated with it,
> > so «accept contributions via git request-pull» seems underspecified.
> 
> All "git request-pull" does is output an email template, including a url
> +branch and a summary of the changes (subjects, authors, diffstat) found
> at that location relative to a baseline (which is also specified).

So there is no way to accept contributions via git request-pull.  There
is no transport protocol, unless you say «email», in which case it's
just «please accept contributions via email».

> The layout is consistent so it's not unimaginable to create some service
> or script could consume such a mail, pull the changes and register them
> into whatever you want.

Sure, just like you could hook email machinery into github's pull
request model where you have a bot on a mailing list that manages the
pull requests on the user's behalf.

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