title: How do developers receive git pull requests?
body: <p>There are lots of tutorials about git pull requests (e.g. <a href="https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/making-a-pull-request/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a> and <a href="https://yangsu.github.io/pull-request-tutorial/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>) but they explain how to generate a pull request, not how they are received. If the upstream developer and I are using git at the terminal and I generate a pull request, say using <a href="https://git-scm.com/docs/git-request-pull" rel="nofollow noreferrer">git request-pull</a>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>git request-pull master https://git.blah.org/project
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How does the upstream development team know that they have an incoming pull request?</p>