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by lsiebert 2958 days ago
I'm a very (very) minor contributor to git.

If you are at all interested in hacking on Git, it's not that difficult. Knowing C and portable shell scripting for writing tests are the big things.

One sticking point, you need to submit patches to the mailing list, you can't just do a github pull request.

See https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/Submitt...

I still see github pull requests rather frequently, even though they have never been allowed. All discussion AND patches go through the mailing list, much like the linux kernel.
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pm215 2958 days ago
It's unfortunate that github doesn't let a project disable the on-website UI for pull request submission; as it is it's easy for somebody to end up wasting their time trying to submit a change that way. (QEMU has that issue too.)
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ImJasonH 2957 days ago
Totally agree! I made nopullrequests.com to help solve this.
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lsiebert 2952 days ago
And that's nice, but I'd also love to see a bot that formats the pull request into a patch email for you.
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