For what it&#x27;s worth, GitHub came up with the awkwardly-sounding &quot;Pull Request&quot; nomenclature because the initial cut of Pull Requests was based on `git-request-pull(1)` (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git-scm.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;git-request-pull" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git-scm.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;git-request-pull</a>). After a few years, the pull request evolved into what you see today.<p>We always kind of hated the term &quot;pull request&quot;. It&#x27;s pretty confusing for a beginner, and for a number of years led to the idea that GitHub didn&#x27;t have code review at all in the product. (For that reason, I always thought we should just call them &quot;Code Reviews&quot;, or just &quot;Reviews&quot;.) There were a number of attempts to change it, but they all died.<p>It wasn&#x27;t until last year when I got a beer with an ex-Atlassian employee when we chatted about this and realized we both had hated the term and had a number of attempts to change the nomenclature, but they fizzled out. Funny how things work out.