[JoshTriplett]

> I, personally, can make a judgement about both of things better with a patch that I apply locally than with a PR.

`gh pr checkout NNN` works very well to give a local copy for review, by pulling and checking out the PR branch. There are equivalent commands for gitlab.

Also:

> The main issue with PRs (in my opinion) is that they limit severely the context in which the changes are viewed. If I want to properly review a piece of code I have to check it out and follow the diff in its proper context (either while debugging) or even while just reading it.

Both PRs and emailed patches encourage reading and reviewing just the patch. With emailed patches, you need to prepare a local branch with the patches applied if you want to do the kind of review you describe; with a PR, you need to fetch and checkout the PR branch. I would argue that checking out the latter is substantially easier than the former, especially given the availability of command-line tools like `gh pr checkout`.

[avgcorrection]

Others keep in mind that Josh is so experienced with the email workflow that he made a tool to manage multiple versions of a “patch series”: git-series

(git(1) doesn’t help you with maintaining patch series)

[JoshTriplett]

Thank you, you just made my day. (I feel bad about leaving that undermaintained, though.)