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"title: Pull requests with Git, the old school way\n"
"date: 2020-09-05\n"
"layout: post\n"
"lang: en\n"
"ref: pull-requests-with-git-the-old-school-way"
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"It might be news to you, as it was to me, that \"pull requests\" that you "
"can create on a Git hosting provider's web UI[^pr-webui] like "
"GitLab/Bitbucket/GitHub actually comes from Git itself: `git request-pull`."
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"[^pr-webui]: And maybe even using the Git hosting provider's API from the "
"command line!"
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"At the very core, they accomplish the same thing: both the original and the "
"web UI ones are ways for you to request the project maintainers to pull in "
"your changes from your fork. It's like saying: \"hi there, I did some "
"changes on my clone of the repository, what do you think about bringing "
"those in?\"."
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msgid ""
"The only difference is that you're working with only Git itself, so you're "
"not tied to any Git hosting provider: you can send pull requests across them"
" transparently! You could even use your own "
"[cgit](https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/about/) installation. No need to be locked"
" in by any of them, putting the \"D\" back in \"DVCS\": it's a "
"**distributed** version control system."
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msgid "`git request-pull` introduction"
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msgid "Here's the raw output of a `git request-pull`:"
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msgid ""
"That very first line is saying: \"create me a pull request with only a "
"single commit, defined by `HEAD`, and use the URL defined by `public-"
"origin`\"."
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msgid ""
"Here's a pitfall: you may try using your `origin` remote at first where I "
"put `public-origin`, but that is many times pointing to something like "
"`git@example.com`, or `git.example.com:repo.git` (check that with `git "
"remote -v | grep origin`). On both cases those are addresses available for "
"interaction via SSH, and it would be better if your pull requests used an "
"address ready for public consumption."
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"A simple solution for that is for you to add the `public-origin` alias as "
"the HTTPS alternative to the SSH version:"
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msgid "Every Git hosting provider exposes repositories via HTTPS."
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msgid "Experiment it yourself, and get acquainted with the CLI."
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msgid "Delivering decentralized pull requests"
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msgid ""
"Now that you can create the content of a pull request, you can just [deliver"
" it][cli-email] to the interested parties email:"
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"[cli-email]: {% link _tils/2020-09-04-send-emails-using-the-command-line-"
"for-fun-and-profit.md %}"
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msgid "Conclusion"
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"In practice, I've never used or seen anyone use pull requests this way: "
"everybody is just [sending patches via "
"email](https://drewdevault.com/2018/07/23/Git-is-already-distributed.html)."
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msgid ""
"If you stop to think about this model, the problem of \"Git hosting "
"providers becoming too centralized\" is a non-issue, and \"Git federation\" "
"proposals are a less attractive as they may sound initially."
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msgid ""
"Using Git this way is not scary or so weird as the first impression may "
"suggest. It is actually how Git was designed to be used."
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msgid "Check `git help request-pull` for more info."
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msgid ""
"$ git request-pull HEAD public-origin\n"
"The following changes since commit 302c9f2f035c0360acd4e13142428c100a10d43f:\n"
"\n"
" db post: Add link to email exchange (2020-09-03 21:23:55 -0300)\n"
"\n"
"are available in the Git repository at:\n"
"\n"
" https://git.euandreh.xyz/website/\n"
"\n"
"for you to fetch changes up to 524c646cdac4153e54f2163e280176adbc4873fa:\n"
"\n"
" db post: better pinpoint sqlite unsuitability (2020-09-03 22:08:56 -0300)\n"
"\n"
"----------------------------------------------------------------\n"
"EuAndreh (1):\n"
" db post: better pinpoint sqlite unsuitability\n"
"\n"
" _posts/2020-08-31-the-database-i-wish-i-had.md | 12 ++++++------\n"
" 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)\n"
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msgid "$ git remote add public-origin https://example.com/user/repo\n"
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msgid ""
"# send a PR with your last commit to the author's email\n"
"git request-pull HEAD public-origin | mail author@example.com -s \"PR: Add thing to repo\"\n"
"\n"
"# send a PR with your last 5 commits to the project's mailing\n"
"# list, including the patch\n"
"git request-pull HEAD~5 public-origin -p | \\\n"
" mail list@example.com -s \"PR: Add another thing to repo\"\n"
"\n"
"# send every commit that is new in \"other-branch\"\n"
"git request-pull master public-origin other-branch | \\\n"
" mail list@example.com -s 'PR: All commits from my \"other-brach\"'\n"
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