From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian Gernhardt Subject: Re: Why Is There No Bug Tracker And Why Are Patches Sent Instead Of Pull Requests Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:23:00 -0500 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1257) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: opticyclic X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Feb 29 19:29:14 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S2oGz-0005YV-Sn for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:29:10 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966049Ab2B2S3E (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:29:04 -0500 Received: from vs072.rosehosting.com ([216.114.78.72]:56415 "EHLO silverinsanity.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965743Ab2B2S3C convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:29:02 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 358 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:29:02 EST Received: by silverinsanity.com (Postfix, from userid 5001) id E9B9D1FFC009; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:22:57 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on silverinsanity.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.5 required=3.5 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 Received: from [129.21.210.202] (bcg2784.student.rit.edu [129.21.210.202]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by silverinsanity.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 84FC81FFC007; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:22:57 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1257) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Feb 29, 2012, at 12:19 PM, opticyclic wrote: > Secondly, since one of the alleged reasons for creating git was to not > have to deal with patches, why are pull requests disable and patches > sent to this mailing On the contrary, the design of git was created with the idea of handling patches via e-mail in mind. Tools like git-format-patch, git-am, and git-send-email exist to allow this workflow. Linus wanted a tool that would automate and enhance the way the kernel ML already did work instead of demanding that they change. ~~ Brian G