Contributing docs: Patch vs Pull-Request

[Thomas Güttler]

I don't understand why this approach gets used in the contributing docs:

git clone ​https://github.com/django/django.git
...
pip install -e /path/to/your/local/clone/django/
...
git diff > 24788.diff

See ​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/intro/contributing/

I guess you prefer pull requests, since they are easier to handle.

Why not take this approach?

fork django to personal github account via github web gui
...
pip install -e git+https://github.com/mygithubnickname/django.git#egg=django
...
create pull request.

[Tim Graham]

Duplicate of #26708.

[Thomas Güttler]

Thank you Graham. I guess only few people have the overview like you have. (and: sorry, I have not seen that this has been reported before).