Actually, you can send the diff patches by email/ pastebin/ gitlab/ etc. It's up to the main developer to take your contribution seriously, given the level of annoyance you might be presenting. Same happens in the other direction, you can host your code on sourcehut, but many junior devs could be repelled by the old school ux.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I dont get how that works, you mail those lines with all those

+line
+something
-something

And they can like transform that into git and have it work as an actual patch?

[–] Snarwin@kbin.social 8 points 9 months ago

This website explains the process: https://git-send-email.io/

[–] theamigan@lemmy.dynatron.me 2 points 8 months ago

Yes, it's called a diff and git was designed with exactly this workflow in mind because it's how the Linux kernel has been developed for decades. GitHub is just a new fangled way to social network-ize the git workflow.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

So make a private email only for GitHub