From: Patrick Steinhardt Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:59:09 GMT Subject: [PATCH 1/2] b4: introduce configuration for the Git project Message-ID: <20260602-pks-b4-v1-1-a7ae5a49e9cf@pks.im> In-Reply-To: <20260602-pks-b4-v1-0-a7ae5a49e9cf@pks.im> 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(+) diff --git a/.b4-config b/.b4-config new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..14124728ce --- /dev/null +++ b/.b4-config @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +[b4] +send-same-thread = shallow +prep-cover-template = ./.b4-cover-template diff --git a/.b4-cover-template b/.b4-cover-template new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ab864933b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/.b4-cover-template @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +${cover} + +--- +${shortlog} + +${diffstat} + +${range_diff} +--- +base-commit: ${base_commit} +${prerequisites} -- 2.54.0.1064.gd145956f57.dirty