I believe that sending a pull request, in this case, means asking  
someone at the master repository to pull a changes from, for example,  
your own local repository.

Toni.

On Jun 16, 2009, at 6:07 PM, Mark Volkmann wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Antony Blakey <antony.bla...@gmail.com 
> > wrote:
>
> On 17/06/2009, at 10:29 AM, Mark Volkmann wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Rich Hickey <richhic...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > Clojure and contrib repos are now on GitHub:
> >
> > http://github.com/richhickey/clojure
> > http://github.com/richhickey/clojure-contrib
> >
> > In particular, please don't send pull requests via GitHub at this
> > time.
> >
> > What's the reason to avoid "git pull"? Is there another way to get
> > updates?
>
> To send a pull *request* in git is asking a remote repository to
> accept *your* changes. It's how you contribute, it's not about
> updating your copy of the repository.
>
> I think you've got that backwards. A "git push" is how I would ask  
> the remote repo to accept my changes. A "git pull" says I want to  
> update my local repo with changes someone made in the remote repo.
>
> -- 
> R. Mark Volkmann
> Object Computing, Inc.
>
> >


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