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Re: GitHub Desktop is now available by hueving on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @01:29PM (#10049224)
>a) understanding git, and b) using git's more powerful features.

But then you start talking about pull requests, which are not a feature of git. They are specific to github (e.g. try finding a PR comment in the git repo).

Does the new tool help with advanced git stuff, or does it just serve the github workflow?

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Re: GitHub Desktop is now available by grandalf on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @01:47PM (#10049361)
The pull request is just an alternative version of the patches linus used to receive via email. Git is equally well suited to both.

At this point I don't think the tool does all that much advanced stuff, but the focus appears to be on understanding git at a level required to understand the more advanced features... so actually more focused on the semantics of git than on specific workflows.

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Re: GitHub Desktop is now available by bildung on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @02:46PM (#10049788)
> But then you start talking about pull requests, which are not a feature of git.

Actually, they are[1], though github pull requests appear to be designed in a way that is not interoperable with the native feature.

[1] = http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9630774/how-to-make-pull-...

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Re: GitHub Desktop is now available by hueving on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @03:15PM (#10049982)
The pull requests of github are not compatible with other things, which is why I brought it up.
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