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| Name: b4 | Distribution: openSUSE Tumbleweed |
| Version: 0.14.3 | Vendor: openSUSE |
| Release: 2.2 | Build date: Tue Oct 14 08:11:17 2025 |
| Group: Development/Tools/Other | Build host: reproducible |
| Size: 1034174 | Source RPM: b4-0.14.3-2.2.src.rpm |
| Packager: https://bugs.opensuse.org | |
| Url: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/b4/b4.git | |
| Summary: Helper scripts for kernel.org patches | |
This is a helper utility to work with patches made available via a public-inbox archive like lore.kernel.org. It is written to make it easier to participate in a patch-based workflows, like those used in the Linux kernel development. The name "b4" was chosen for ease of typing and because B-4 was the precursor to Lore and Data in the Star Trek universe.
GPL-2.0-or-later
* Tue Oct 14 2025 Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
- add dig support
* 0001-ez-do-a-patch-id-match-when-pulling-in-trailer-updat.patch
* 0001-dig-initial-b4-dig-implementation.patch
* 0002-dig-fix-wrong-msgid-output-for-matches.patch
* 0003-dig-actually-handle-commitish-strings.patch
* 0004-dig-first-round-of-refinement-to-dig.patch
* Wed Oct 01 2025 Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
- update to 0.14.3:
* Don't strip trailing blank lines in patches when not needed
* fix show-info in another branch
* stop generating full object IDs for non-binary diffs
* better handle invalid timezone values
* Create patches with --default-prefix (when git version supports it)
* Add --find-renames to git-show to counteract local configs
* Fix misleading error message on cherry-picked patches
* be more careful when applying trailers to non-prep branches
* Don't quote trailers containing brackets
* Support smtpauth=none in sendemail configs
* when querying by change-id, don't add author and subject
* clean up after git-filter-repo runs in recent git-filter-repo versions
* Wed Sep 18 2024 Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
- update to 0.14.2:
* fixes "b4 am/shazam" sometimes pulling in bogus trailers
* fixes "b4 send" treating message-ids as email addresses to cc
* fixes "prep-perpatch-check-cmd" for custom checkpatch configurations
* fixes "b4 send" expanding prerequisites in incorrect order
* Wed Jul 24 2024 Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
- update to 0.14.1:
* Forward the smtpserveroption to the local command
* Support "valueless truth" in configuration parsing
* Exclude tests from dist files
* bump-version: fix path to the manpages
* shazam: force mboxrd mode for git-am
* Improve tests exclusion from the built packages
* When looking for the cover commit, restrict to current committer
* Mon Jun 17 2024 Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
- update to 0.14.0:
* Switch to using pyproject.toml
* Automatic dependency resolution
* Checkpatch and other pre-submit checks
* Document new features
* Miscellaneous enhancements
* Fri Feb 16 2024 Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
- update to 0.13.0:
* `b4 am` now has a `--single-message` flag that lets you process a
single message and ignore any other parts of a thread; this is
useful when there is a patch series sent as attachments to a single
message
* `--apply-cover-trailers` is now the default behaviour
* when patchwork integration is configured, `b4 am` will attempt to
retrieve the CI status of patches
* `b4 prep --show-info` can do a lot more now, including showing
information about branches that aren't currently checked out
* `b4 prep` gained a --cleanup option to properly archive and remove
old b4*prep-managed branches
* `b4 send` has a `--preview-to` option that lets you send a
pre*review of your series to your colleagues, mentors, or bosses
* various fixes and improvements to `b4 send` functionality
* b4 can now take config options on commandline, allowing to override
global configs via scripted invocations
* improvements to `b4 diff` that should make it work more reliably for
series without exact object matches
* Tue Nov 07 2023 Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
- remove python_module from requires, this might lead to unwanted
side effects. use pprefix macro instead to manage sle15
* Tue Oct 31 2023 Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
- add %{python_module ...} also to requires, otherwise bad
requires are generated
* Tue Oct 24 2023 Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
- update to 0.12.4:
* ez: ignore invalid unicode returned by get_maintainer
* Only pass -f to sendmail if envelopesender is set
* trailers: do not quote names when special chars are present
* Thu Oct 05 2023 Daniel Garcia <daniel.garcia@suse.com>
- Remove dependency on /usr/bin/python3 using %python3_fix_shebang
macro, bsc#1212476
* Thu Jul 27 2023 Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
- add python3-base >= 3.9 to BuildRequires for 15.5 and older
- add %{?sle15_python_module_pythons}
- switch back to python_module macro to have all this working
* Mon Jun 26 2023 Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
- update to 0.12.3:
* ez: store sent prefixes with the tag message
* Properly quote the address before adding into From
* shazam: switch to top of git tree before running git-am
* trailers: normalize address after parsing
* Fix wrong CTR header after 8bit cover content is mixed in
* ez: make it easier to send single-patch series
* ez: make message-ids use today's date
* ez: only include base-branch when using non-default strategy
* Fix to properly handle under-scissors patches with a unixfrom line
* Clean headers before adding them to the pre-scissors email
* b4: Fix envelopeSender handling
* am, shazam: allow cherry-picking an out-of-series patch
* mbox.py::make_am: simplify check for early return
* ez: Fix 'trailers -F' used on a single commit
* b4.sh: keep existing PYTHONPATH if set
* b4: Allow prep new branch while on a b4 managed branch
* docs: fix smtpServerPort option
* trailers: add 'Closes' as recognized link trailer
* trailers: accept recognized link trailers
* Consider '@' safe in msgid URLs
* ez: better fix for "no follow-up trailers" condition
* Add subscribe/unsubscribe to badtrailers
* ez: do not trust local commands to properly reflect
* ez-trailers: don't crash when there are no follow-ups received
* Thu Jun 22 2023 Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org>
- Do not use python_module macro, but rather specify python3-FOO
directly: this package is not a python module, but rather an
application written in python.
* Sat Mar 11 2023 Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
- update to 0.12.2:
* prep: add ability to use markdown in the cover content (requires
escaping the leading "#" as ">#" that is stripped on cover letter
rendering)
* send: don't require vN to --resend (will resend the latest version)
* test: don't require running from git
* plus several bugfixes mostly dealing with corner-case conditions
* Fri Mar 03 2023 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- update to 0.12.1:
* Use typing compatible with Python 3.8
* Tue Jan 24 2023 Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
- update to 0.12.0
* worked around Python's email bugs
* other bugfixes
* Fri Jan 06 2023 Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
- update to 0.11.2:
* Always run log with --no-abbrev-commit
* Handle series with more than 999 patches
* ez: dedupe cover letter CCs taken from individual patches
* ez: avoid header wrapping when writing to file
* ez: don't crash on non-existent tag in show_info
* Mon Jan 02 2023 Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
- update to 0.11.1:
* ez: use default web endpoint when in the kernel repo
* ez: give better error message when patatt signing fails
* ez: don't crash when there's no [sendemail] section
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