Snippet #912

Created 5/12/2012, updated 3/12/2020

I don't do github pull requests.

github throws away all the relevant information, like having even a valid email address for the person asking me to pull. The diffstat is also deficient and useless.

Git comes with a nice pull-request generation module, but github instead decided to replace it with their own totally inferior version. As a result, I consider github useless for these kinds of things. It's fine for hosting, but the pull requests and the online commit editing, are just pure garbage.

More golden snippets from the thread:

"the braindamaged crap that github does when you ask it to request a pull"
"those commits are invariably pure crap"
"totally unreadable descriptions"
"github is a total ghetto of crap commit messages and unreadable and unusable pull requests"
"People should try to compare the quality of the kernel git logs with some other projects, and cry themselves to sleep."
"You're a moron."

Amusing summary of entire thing by a Redditor:

TL;DR Dumbass rails "developer" with zero community contributions of his own feels that a Github account qualifies him to comment on Linux kernel commits and gets called a moron by Linus. Reddit explodes.