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

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Shreyansh Paliwal <shreyanshpaliwalcmsmn@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 19, 2026, 15:45 UTC
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> Shreyansh Paliwal <shreyanshpaliwalcmsmn@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> 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.
>
> But lore (and the way it takes the message-ID and returns not just a
> single message but a mbox with all patches in a complete series) is
> very specific external dependency.  It does not belong to "git am",
> whose only purpose is to accept a mailbox with bunch of patches (and
> we do not care how you downloaded the mailbox) and create commits
> out of them.  Interacting with lore and downloading patches from it
> is what "b4" does and it does it well.
Hmm. That makes sense. Thanks.
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