Re: [PATCH 1/2] b4: introduce configuration for the Git project

> 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).