[throwaway999888]

There is already built-in support for pull request[1] and patch based workflows in Git itself. Why do we need to wait for, and choose based on, hosted services providing things like that? EDIT: for more clarity; using pull requests and patches with Git itself means that it simple to rebase or whatever, since you're just working with branches and patches directly.

Or am I missing something? Other than something like usability, perhaps...

[1] I'm not actually quite sure if there is a specific command for that format. Though it should be easy enough to have a third party solution that uses a format through email.

[glandium]

I hate that github does pull request merges with --no-ff, so what happens is that I manually pull the PR, merge it locally, and push. Github is nice enough to notice that the PR was merged, so its status is appropriately closed (if that was a fast forward, I don't think it detects rebases), but that makes me have to go out of the browser to start typing commands when I could have just clicked a button and be done with it. Essentially, it's a smoothness problem.