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		hannob 24 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of fo... > I think GitHub added the “pull request” as a really useful add on to git and that really made it take off. I'm pretty sure the term "pull request" existed before GitHub. (Meaning writing an email saying "I have changes in my copy of repo that I want you to merge into the main repo".) But GitHub put an UI around it, and they may've been the first to do that.

globular-toast 24 days ago [–]

Can confirm. Pull request is something Linus talks about in the early days of git before he even acknowledged the existence of GitHub.

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