GitHub's beta launched without Pull Requests, but we did have private messages…

Good reminder that a simple message asking someone to pull from your branch is already a pull request (the other person can literally `git pull $URL $BRANCH`).

Nowadays everyone already assumes that "pull request" = "web-based code review interface with a button to merge", and I find that unfortunate, but such change of meanings are common and we can only accept them.

But it still makes communication unnecessarily complicated when people have that assumption.

Like, if I host my code with cgit, I bet there's a whole generation of developers that don't even know they can clone my code, host it in their GitHub accounts, and send me a message telling me "hey, I forked your repo, you can pull the commits from my GitHub account if you want".

No need to mess with `git request-pull`, or even email at all.

Such a nice anecdote for a period I have (and will) never see. The idea of private messages seemed cool when compared to the massive issues list we have on GitHub now