Happy 10th Birthday Pull Requests!

My guess is that in discovering PRs are 10 years old you’re having one of two reactions.

My reaction was definitely the first one. I’d stumbled across the introduction post while I was researching the history of code review, which in turn was prompted by the Go community’s discussion regarding Gerrit vs Github.

It’s amazing to think about how over just 10 years the Pull Request has become the dominant paradigm of code review. Even if you’re not using Github, you’re still probably using a tool that has outright copied or been influenced by Pull Requests. Congratulations to Chris Wanstrath and Tom Preson-Werner on creating something with such enduring influence.

That all sounds so terribly uncivilised now, thanks Github for making code review more elegant and accessible.

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