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> I think GitHub added the “pull request” as a really useful add on to git and that really made it take off.

Negative. The only thing GitHub added to the parlance is "forks" which are essentially like namespaced branches in the same repo.



The use of "fork" predates GitHub as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_(software_development)


Yeah, it's an older term but forking in that sense is a pretty big deal. GitHub fork is just a button press and can be done basically automatically when you are interested in a repo.


Ah okay I see what you mean


How about an issue tracker that reacts to commit messages and pull requests?


Yeah, for me the most "magical" bit was when you pushed something to your fork and it would prompt you to make a pull request for it.




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