Are pull requests bad because they originate from open-source development?
&gt;<i>&quot;Pull requests were invented to gatekeep access to open-source projects. In open source, it&#x27;s very common that not everyone is given free access to changing the code, so contributors will issue a pull request so that a trusted person can then approve the change. &quot;I think this is really bad way to organise a development team. &quot;If you can&#x27;t trust your team mates to make changes carefully, then your version control system is not going to fix that for you.&quot;</i><p>This guy (not the post author, but Dave Farley, the guy who wrote the above excerpt) has never heard of &quot;trust but verify&quot;.<p>PR is about verifying, having another set of eyes for anythine the original dev might have missed, giving an opinion before something on a branch goes into permanent git history, and so on.<p>This is completely orthogonal with whether you trust your team members or not. Besides &quot;blind trust&quot; is not the only form of trust.