Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> The feature of local branches does sound useful.
>
>     I don't see the difference between pulling from somebody (after a
>     review) and applying the patches attached to a mail.
>
> Is it possible to "pull from somebody" when his machine
> is not on line?

Yes, if that person placed (pushed) his changes somewhere before going
offline. This could have been been done by sending a patchset generated
by git-format-patch to a mailing list, by pushing to a repository that
acts as a mirror (repo.or.cz hosts such a service) to name two
possibilities.