Comment by js2
15 hours ago
Right, I was thinking from a web-based UI. The "pull request" term is from git (AFAIK), but git itself was built to accommodate the earlier concept of mailing patches around. (Source: I've been using version control since RCS/SCCS days and contributed here and there to git in its infancy. Also an early user/contributor to Gerrit.)
> The "pull request" term is from git (AFAIK)
Possibly from github. It got popularized there at least, encouraging forking code, and is why so many people say "pull request" when they mean "merge request".