alt Hacker News> Additionally, GitHub seems to encourage a "push model" in which you are notified when a new event occurs in your project(s), but I don't want to work with that model. Instead, I prefer it to work as a "pull model", so I only get updates when I specifically look for them. This model would also allow me to easily work offline. Unfortunately, I see that the same push model has been copied to alternative forges.
Someone kind enough to explain this to me? What's the difference between push model and pull model? What about push model makes it difficult to work offline?
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I would say it is time/life management: push tells you to do something now. In pull I check each Friday afternoon what's up in my hobby project and work on it for a few hours and then call it a day and be uninterrupted till next week.
AFAIK, the author wants to work like how Source Hut and Linux kernel works: by e-mails.
When you're working with e-mails, you sync your relevant IMAP box to local, pulling all the proposed patches with it, hence the pull model.
Then you can work through the proposed changes offline, handle on your local copy and push the merged changes back online.