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Re: [RFC] git am: apply patches directly via message id

From
Shreyansh Paliwal <shreyanshpaliwalcmsmn@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 19, 2026, 15:21 UTC
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<20260319152313.1324081-1-shreyanshpaliwalcmsmn@gmail.com>
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> Shreyansh Paliwal <shreyanshpaliwalcmsmn@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Does this sound like a useful feature to add or maybe any kind of indirect
> > implementation is already there and I am missing anything. Let me know what
> > are your thoughts on this.
>
> Sounds a lot like "b4 am -o-" piped to "git am" to me.
>

I see. Though I think b4 is an external library, and I am reckoning that this functionality is used commonly so would it make sense to add this natively in git am ? or it is fine using b4 for this.

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