On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 09:27:31PM +0200, Nicola Vitacolonna wrote: > On 15/06/2018 01:32, Chad Perrin wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 09:59:12PM +0100, Thomas wrote: > >> > >> Pull requests are not supported, hence the software can't be used for > >> community driven open source. > > > > The pull request interface on GitHub is a feature of GitHub, not of Git. > > While it would be nice to have a similar feature built into the Fossil > > web UI, doing it the same way would require having a centralized website > > on which to implement it. Something similar could theoretically be > > supported in Fossil itself, but would not be identical to the way > > GitHub's pull request feature works. > > FWIW, GitHub pull requests have been harshly criticised by Linus > Torvalds himself [1]. Git does have its own method (`git am`). Maybe, > Fossil could implement something along the lines of `git am`. > > [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-5654674
I don't know that I'd describe the GitHub pull request concept in such strictly negative terms as Linus does, but it does have shortcomings for some purposes. It might also be nice to have a merge-by-email feature in Fossil similar to Git's (which is more of a "merge request" than a "pull request"). On the other hand, it's already pretty easy to "hand-craft" a pull request for Fossil, if I'm not mistaken, as long as you have a repository that's actually accessible to the recipient of the request. Just send an email or other message with the pull URI for your changes, and let the recipient use the `fossil pull` command. Is there something important I'm missing for this approach? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
