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Re:Ask HN: When did GitHub replace standard Git commands wit... by qbasic_forever on Monday January 23, 2023 @10:23AM (#34489851)
Do you see GitHub using that command? It's designed for email workflows and only spits out a message you can copy into an email to the maintainer. GitHub does not use email workflows.
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Re:Ask HN: When did GitHub replace standard Git commands wit... by bheadmaster on Monday January 23, 2023 @10:42AM (#34490114)
Your original claim was that

> the entire concept of a pull request is foreign to git

which is incorrect, since the the concept already existed, but was simply

> designed for email workflows

Indeed, GitHub-specific pull-requests didn't exist before GitHub, but that's a tautology, isn't it?

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Re:Ask HN: When did GitHub replace standard Git commands wit... by seba_dos1 on Monday January 23, 2023 @04:09PM (#34495058)
It's not. GitHub's idea of pull request is different than what `git request-pull` does, it just uses the same name, which causes confusion. For example, GitLab uses "merge request" to represent the same idea as GitHub's "pull request".
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