Re: How mantainers check Git diffs and patches?

From: Henrique Soares <henriquegogo@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 2, 2025, 02:59 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <20251001-pastoral-frisky-seahorse-cd5bdf@lemur>

On Wed, Oct 01, 2025 at 09:37:34AM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:

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> This will apply it on top of the current HEAD:
> 
>     b4 shazam https://lore.kernel.org/git/20250919010911.649831-1-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net
> 
> This will fetch it into FETCH_HEAD, making it behave pretty identical to a
> pull request:
> 
>     b4 shazam -H https://lore.kernel.org/git/20250919010911.649831-1-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net

I just didn't know about b4, and this is probably the tool I was looking for. Basically what I was doing was `git apply` patch-by-patch manually (with a little scripting), but b4 seems the right tool for the job.

> Hope this helps,

Yes, a lot! Thanks.

-- Henrique