On Saturday 2012-09-08 20:57, Junio C Hamano wrote: >Please don't throw a pull request for a patch whose worth hasn't >been justified in a discussion on the list. Thanks. Let me postulate that people like to get cover letters with the git:// URL so they can fetch+look at it, a diffstat and shortlog. And 'lo, that is exactly what git-request-pull thankfully generates. In my defense: Just because the command is called "request-pull", does not mean you absolutely have to merge/pull it. In fact, it does not even mention merge/pull at all. " The following changes since commit [SHA]: [Commit Message] are available in the git repository at: git://[...] for you to fetch changes up to [SHA]: [Commit Message] [diffstat,shortlog] " In contrast to many a LKML postings which explicitly state the pull intent: " Hi [Maintainer], Please pull from the git repository at [URL] to receive [...] [SHA] [Commit Message] on top of commit [SHA] [Commit Message] [diffstat,shortlog] " -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html