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endiangroup • yesterday at 2:48 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

AD: Pull requests are `patches` in radicle, when you clone a repository you create a git namespace for yourself from which you can edit to your hearts desire, you can then open patches to other repos via this mechanism.

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nh2 • yesterday at 4:44 PM

Are you open to rename the "patches" terminology?

Apparently currently "1 patch = 1 pull request of e.g. multiple commits" in Radicle.

That confusing, since in Git a patch usually refers to a single commit:

    * git format-patch outputs 1 ".patch" file per commit.
    * Its output also enshrines that, in the subject lines that appear e.g. on Linux mailing lists: "[PATCH 1/2]", meaning "one of two patches in a patch series".
(That said, `git format-patch --stdout` can concatenate multiple commits into a single output, but it does not offer to write those into a single .patch file by itself.)

So when reading "Patches", I was intuitively unnecessarily scared that the tool cannot handle whole branches, and flattens out all commits.

Maybe "Patchsets"?

That's what kernel people apparently call them:

https://kernelnewbies.org/PatchPhilosophy#What_is_a_patchset...

https://kernelnewbies.org/PatchPhilosophy#Patches_are_git_co...

happosai • yesterday at 5:00 PM

This sounds really, really cool. How does reviewing such patch-PR's work?