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Should I bother learning email-based git?
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Going to be honest, I didn't even realize you could use git over email (stuff like submitting patches and `git apply` and `git-am`) until recently. I'm pretty familiar with using git on the terminal and Github's UI.

But using email seems to be the "old school" method that is still used by some groups (the Linux kernel still uses it for development, and https://sr.ht/ is based on email apparently). I've read some posts (https://drewdevault.com/2018/07/02/Email-driven-git.html, https://begriffs.com/posts/2018-06-05-mailing-list-vs-github.html) that make the argument of why using email is preferable, but personally the idea of trawling through large mailing lists and staring at ugly plaintext patches seems unappealing to me.

I feel like Github and pull requests is a much more natural method of development, but perhaps it's just because I'm used to it. So, is there value in learning email-based git? Should more people switch to using it?

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