2025-10-02 GitHub from the command-line
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I tried both git-hub and gh and failed twice. Years ago, I tried
some git-forge integration with magit in Emacs, too. It didn't work.

In comparison, just git works.

Somebody sends me the URL to their repository in an email with an
explanation. I add a "remote" using their name, and fetch the info I
need.

    cd ~/src/cool
    git remote add berta https://example.org/berta/cool
    git fetch berta
    git checkout berta/some-feature
    git log
    ...
    git checkout main
    git merge berta/some-feature

Something like that. And then I write a nice email back.

This is not the dreaded email flow. This is working with remotes. All
this requires is that all the contributors have public git
repositories. These can be on GitHub (😓), GitLab, sourcehut (😄),
Codeberg (😍), self-hosted, whatever.

The only thing that doesn't work is communicating via the web
interface about issues and pull requests or merge requests. Use email
or instant messengers. Works for me. My projects not very popular.

#Git