Nowadays it's almost taken for granted that you host your Git repos on GitHub, especially if it's open source.

Before GitHub, what was used? I know of repo.or.cz which seems to have been the first GitHub-like thing from what I can tell.

I know as well that before you most probably sent the developer an email with your Git diff or whatever so he can merge it in.

For the old veterans, what was used before GitHub? What was the procedure for making a pull request and getting it accepted? What kind of people did you love and who did you hate? (based on how they made their "pull requests")

BTW I posted this on this subforum cause I wasn't sure where else to put it, feel free to move it to a more appropriate place. :)

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I ask this because I'm curious, and since I plan on moving to hosting my own Git repos, I'd like to know the proper procedure so I can make a blog post about it (as a tutorial).