News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git. Parent comment

Re:We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git by red_admiral on Friday April 10, 2026 @05:15AM (#47715477)
Indeed they're not; they live on the 'user layer' rather than the 'application layer'. That's not to say many git-frontends (IntelliJ, Sourcetree, Github desktop) don't support them, but "git pullrequest" isn't a thing.

Edit: see "git request-pull" as mentioned below (file:///C:/Program%20Files/Git/mingw64/share/doc/git-doc/git-request-pull.html) but what it does is write "a pretty email" (the other poster's words) to STDOUT.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git by 1718627440 on Friday April 10, 2026 @02:38PM (#47721984)
> mentioned below (file:///C:/Program%20Files/Git/mingw64/share/doc/git-doc/git-request-pull.html)

What? Is the intention, that I access your C: drive? Also is it common to have a file:// link on MS Windows? I thought this was a unix thing.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git by red_admiral on Friday April 10, 2026 @03:47PM (#47722799)
Sorry. For some reason I used to get `git help ...` redirect me to the (URL of) the actual website.

I think the file:/// is so that you can fire off "[cmd /c] start FILEPATH" to load the default browser, while also not having to worry about spaces in the path.

[ Parent | on HN ]