Evolution along time of r_J (top) and ṁ_in (bottom) for all four outbursts of GX 339-4 observed by RXTE with their 5% confidence regions. For each outburst the timescale is chosen so that t = 0 corresponds to the first detection of the outburst (see Paper V for more details). The color-coding translates the time evolution for each outburst: starting in dark violet during the rising hard state and finishing in light yellow in the decaying hard state, using a constant color during the entire soft and soft-intermediate states. Four letters are placed to guide the evolution of each outburst: Point B is the last hard state of the rising phase, C and D are the first and last soft states, and E is the first hard state of the decaying phase.