Does "pure git" have the concept of a pull request?

Question

Of course, there's git pull, but is there a formalized method (i.e. not an ad hoc method such as sending an email) of making a pull request in "pure" git?

Answer 1

The answer is yes.

The pull request is based upon git internal feature name : request-pull

git request-pull

Here are the doc for this feature

• https://git-scm.com/docs/git-request-pull
• https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-request-pull.html

Based upon this concept the pull request was created and you can imagine were the name came from....

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Other similar methods:

git format-patch

git format-patch master --stdout > XXXX.patch

git format-patch

This command will create patch which can later on can be applied on top of any other commit using the git apply command

Prepare each commit with its patch in one file per commit, formatted to resemble UNIX mailbox format. The output of this command is convenient for e-mail submission or for use with git am.

git apply

Reads the supplied diff output (i.e. "a patch") and applies it to files. With the --index option the patch is also applied to the index, and with the --cached option the patch is only applied to the index.

Without these options, the command applies the patch only to files, and does not require them to be in a Git repository.