I find pull requests handy for working with semi-technical people, for repos only worked on by programmers we just use the format-patch/email workflow, and we have access to each others public repos (would be called "forks" in github parlance I guess).
It's a much better system, faster, more powerful and more flexible but not centralized and you have to understand what you are doing.
It's not like this is a feature github discovered and added. They made an easier, prettier and less powerful version of an existing feature. Certainly not a bad idea, git's command line UI is ridiculously bad UI so a super simple point and click interface was a fantastic way to grab market share and get non-command line people involved.
> the comments in a pull request are an excellent feature
Really? I mean, compared to nothing I guess it would seem great. But since I'm used to an email thread serving the same purpose those comments on github pull requests seem awful to me.
It's a much better system, faster, more powerful and more flexible but not centralized and you have to understand what you are doing.
It's not like this is a feature github discovered and added. They made an easier, prettier and less powerful version of an existing feature. Certainly not a bad idea, git's command line UI is ridiculously bad UI so a super simple point and click interface was a fantastic way to grab market share and get non-command line people involved.
> the comments in a pull request are an excellent feature
Really? I mean, compared to nothing I guess it would seem great. But since I'm used to an email thread serving the same purpose those comments on github pull requests seem awful to me.