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On 01/02/2016 12:02 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
> What is being done to stave off the common response, addressed by GitHub
> users to people submitting a change as a link to their Git repository,
> of “can you please submit that as a GitHub pull request”?
> 
> That common response makes for an unnecessary and IMO unacceptable
> pressure toward centralisation. GitHub's “pull request” workflow is
> entirely proprietary and can only be done within GitHub.

Really?  This seems like an entirely artificial github requirement.
There's absolutely no reason why github couldn't do a pull request from
any arbitrary, valid git url.