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Tue, 2 Jun 2026 09:32:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: Patrick Steinhardt Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] b4: introduce configuration for the Git project In-Reply-To: <20260602-pks-b4-v1-1-a7ae5a49e9cf@pks.im> (Patrick Steinhardt's message of "Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:59:09 +0200") References: <20260602-pks-b4-v1-0-a7ae5a49e9cf@pks.im> <20260602-pks-b4-v1-1-a7ae5a49e9cf@pks.im> Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:32:23 +0900 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Patrick Steinhardt writes: > We're about to extend our documentation to recommend b4 for sending > patch series ot the mailing list. Prepare for this by introducing a b4 > configuration so that the tool knows to honor our preferences. For now, > this configuration does two things: > > - It configures "send-same-thread = shallow", which tells b4 to always > send subsequent versions of the same patch series as a reply to the > cover letter of the first version. > > - It configures "prep-cover-template", which tells b4 to use a custom > template for the cover letter. The most important change compared to > the default template is that our custom template also includes a > range-diff. > > There's potentially more things that we may want to configure going > forward, like for example auto-configuration of folks to Cc on certain > patches. But these two tweaks feel like a good place to start. > > Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt > --- > .b4-config | 3 +++ > .b4-cover-template | 11 +++++++++++ > 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+) Shipping a sample like ".b4-config.sample" that users who opt-in can copy-and-edit into the final name ".b4-config" is OK, but I'd rather not to ship the configuration files that the users would want to edit (hence making the tree dirty).