On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 4:00 AM, kilon alios <[email protected]> wrote:
> Pull requests make more sense when you create forks and make your own > versions that go to a diffirent direction than the original repo. When all > you want is to contribute then becoming a contributor makes more sense > because its more straightforward for you and the original authors. > You may be slightly misinterpreting the purpose of pull requests. They are not primarily for making your own versions that go in a different direction (although they can help with that). They're a social / workflow mechanism, for reviewing and accepting contributions. PRs are a way to publicly say "I would like to contribute the following change to your repo". And then the actual repo owners/contributors have a chance to comment on the change (with nice tools like you can comment on individual lines of code), and ask for corrections. (And then the author of the PR can make corrections, and they'll show up automatically in the pull request.) Then, finally, if they approve of the contribution, the pull request is merged. If you're a contributor with write access to the original repo, there isn't a straightforward mechanism to do all of those steps. You can make commits, but there isn't the same workflow of discussing and accepting.
