Hey Dmitry and Matt,

First off, `git-request-pull` requires the user to have their own
repository hosted somewhere, and someone would need to clone it/add a
remote and fetch from it just to check out what's inside.  That means
extra steps with no real benefits.

Dmitry Alexandrov <dag@gnui.org> writes:

> The only thing the I am aware of is git-am, which provides... nothing (?) over a simple pull request.

Reciprocally, I don't think a simple pull request provides much over
git-am, except that with `format-patch`, everything is simply text, that
once sent over email (in a decentralized fashion) can be simply
responded to and read without relying on complicated javascript in a
browser, and using your mail reader of choice.  Applying a patchset is
pretty easy with tools like b4, lei and friends.

Also, patches lend themselves much better to an iteration workflow, I
know that at least GitHub doesn't like when people rewrite PR history,
which is imo the only solution to get a clean git history in the end.

Best,
--
Josselin Poiret