From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:48:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] b4: introduce configuration for the Git project
Message-ID: <aiZl1ZDnX0KvWxW1@pks.im>
In-Reply-To: <87qzmn20a9.fsf@emacs.iotcl.com>

On Wed, Jun 03, 2026 at 03:58:38PM +0200, Toon Claes wrote:
> Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:
> > diff --git a/.b4-config b/.b4-config
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000000..fd4fb56b6d
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/.b4-config
> > @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
> > +# Note that these are default values that you can tweak via the typical
> > +# git-config(1) machinery. You thus shouldn't ever have to change this file.
> > +# See also https://b4.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/config.html.
> > +[b4]
> > +send-same-thread = shallow
> 
> Is it worth to note this requires v0.15 or higher?
> 
> That version was released only 2 months ago, I can imagine many distros
> still ship an older version, what happens if a version doesn't support
> this setting yet?

That's fair. In case it's not supported we fall back to the default,
which is to not use threading at all.

Might be another indicator that we should just stick with the current
threading style.

Patrick