From: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones•plus.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>, Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks•im>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] b4: introduce configuration for the Git project
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2026 17:23:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8dbdb553-9633-46bb-8a51-040d06d0d10e@ramsayjones.plus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqldcxvziw.fsf@gitster.g>
On 02/06/2026 2:32 pm, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks•im> 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 <ps@pks•im>
>> ---
>> .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).
>
Hmm, for those of us not in the know, perhaps mention the b4 documentation
at 'b4.docs.kernel.org' (which includes how to install b4 ... ;) ).
ATB,
Ramsay Jones
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-02 16:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-02 11:59 [PATCH 0/2] Documentation: recommend the use of b4 Patrick Steinhardt
2026-06-02 11:59 ` [PATCH 1/2] b4: introduce configuration for the Git project Patrick Steinhardt
2026-06-02 13:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-06-02 14:56 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-06-02 16:23 ` Ramsay Jones [this message]
2026-06-03 2:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-06-03 6:52 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-06-02 17:09 ` Tuomas Ahola
2026-06-03 2:12 ` Weijie Yuan
2026-06-03 6:55 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-06-03 7:50 ` Weijie Yuan
2026-06-03 9:51 ` Weijie Yuan
2026-06-03 11:07 ` SZEDER Gábor
2026-06-03 12:23 ` Weijie Yuan
2026-06-03 13:30 ` Tuomas Ahola
2026-06-04 1:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-06-02 11:59 ` [PATCH 2/2] Documentation/MyFirstContribution: recommend the use of b4 Patrick Steinhardt
2026-06-02 16:09 ` Weijie Yuan
2026-06-03 6:54 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-06-03 7:53 ` Weijie Yuan
2026-06-03 8:00 ` Weijie Yuan
2026-06-03 6:58 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Documentation: " Patrick Steinhardt
2026-06-03 6:58 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] Documentation/MyFirstContribution: recommend shallow threading Patrick Steinhardt
2026-06-03 10:01 ` Tuomas Ahola
2026-06-03 10:29 ` Weijie Yuan
2026-06-03 20:09 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2026-06-03 6:59 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] Documentation/MyFirstContribution: recommend the use of b4 Patrick Steinhardt
2026-06-04 5:25 ` Toon Claes
2026-06-03 6:59 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] b4: introduce configuration for the Git project Patrick Steinhardt
2026-06-03 13:58 ` Toon Claes
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