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This seems to come very close to recognising that if someone without permissions pushes something to a repository, it should be convered into a PR.

> If you've ever used the email workflow I don't think I need to explain why it sucks.

I prefer it FWIW. After setting up your Email, it is much easier and faster to send a mail than go through a PR-process. On the reciving end you can respond inline to the patch, in the compfort of your email client, without having to use a browser.

My feeling is that people who don't like this, don't have a good mail setup (which is understandable given some hosts), making Email much more painful to use in general.




If you review PRs as whole, you don't need to use the web interface. I think it only gets harder when you want to do inline comments. At least that's what the docs for github cli suggest. https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_pr_review

It does seem like it would be hard to support inline comments properly outside of an email quoting context without editor integration.


Some IDEs actually have GitHub PR integration (JetBrains ones) with full comment support. It is amazing and one of my favorite features by far.


VSCode has it via their GitHub extension.


And that can be used online, replace `GitHub.com` by `GitHub.dev` on a PR and it’ll drop you in the web based vscode.


There's even a keyboard shortcut to do that: from the Files view of a Repo on GitHub type a dot/period (.) and it will shuttle you from .com to .dev.




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