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b4

A tool for working with patches and pull requests in a public-inbox archive. Some subcommands such as am, shazam, prep, send have their own usage documentation. More information: https://manned.org/b4.

• Retrieve a thread from a public-inbox archive and save as an mbox file:

b4 mbox {{message_id}}

• Retrieve patches from a thread and prepare them for applying with git am:

b4 am {{message_id}}

• Retrieve and apply patches directly to the current Git tree:

b4 shazam {{message_id}}

• Start a new patch series branch forked from a specific point:

b4 prep {{[-n|--new]}} {{series_name}} {{[-f|--fork-point]}} {{fork_point}}

• Send patches from the current branch to the mailing list:

b4 send

• Update the current branch with new code-review trailers:

b4 trailers {{[-u|--update]}}

• Display help:

b4 {{[-h|--help]}}

• Display version:

b4 --version