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[Johannes Erdfelt <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2011, Monty Taylor <mordred@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Part of this also comes from a semantic difference in how github and
> gerrit view the world. On github, you develop on your personal fork, and
> then you submit one of the branches in your fork to be pulled - so the
> unit of review is the branch- meaning that amended changes can be
> tracked. The thing you lose, though, is that you have to switch from
> your dev environment to your web browser to submit a change for review.

As a minor point of clarification, Github does have an API to create pull
requests. It's not required to go to a web browser.

http://develop.github.com/p/pulls.html

JE