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		bzxcvbn on Aug 22, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk > I mean… you can imagine a history being stiched together serverside. And since Git has a builtin mechanism for tracking such things, called branches, we could ask users to create a new one. Then add a possibility for people to comment on the proposed change. Sounds like you're incrementally reinventing PRs.

rtpg on Aug 22, 2022 [–]

But _we don't need to ask users to do this_. We can just do "the obvious thing".

We're talking about usability here, of course the fundamental features are available in Git. It's Git!

Here [0] is a more well written out version of this idea (by a developer of Mercurial).

[0] https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2020/01/07/problems-with-pull-...

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