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

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Philip Hands writes ("Re: GitHub “pull request” is proprietary, incompatible with Git ‘request-pull  ’"):
> Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> > (It may be that there is already some software that does this.  If so
> > I'm not aware of it.)
> 
> Having just been using it for pushing some patches to openstack's gerrit
> instance, you seem to be describing 'git-review':

I was aware that gerrit has something a bit like this.

But this:

>   https://github.com/openstack-infra/git-review
>   https://packages.debian.org/git-review

is a submission tool.  It doesn't do the server side.

I don't think you can use it with a simple git server (and you
wouldn't want to grant wide access to push to random branches on your
git server).

> (I guess it would need generalising a bit to work with things other than
> gerrit)

The right way to look at this is that perhaps we could make a
different server-side that isn't gerrit.

Ian.