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  "author": {
    "name": "Patrick Steinhardt",
    "email": "ps@pks.im",
    "time": "Wed Jun 03 08:59:01 2026 +0200"
  },
  "committer": {
    "name": "Junio C Hamano",
    "email": "gitster@pobox.com",
    "time": "Wed Jun 03 16:39:02 2026 +0900"
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  "message": "b4: introduce configuration for the Git project\n\nWe\u0027re about to extend our documentation to recommend b4 for sending\npatch series to the mailing list. Prepare for this by introducing a b4\nconfiguration so that the tool knows to honor our preferences. For now,\nthis configuration does two things:\n\n  - It configures \"send-same-thread \u003d shallow\", which tells b4 to always\n    send subsequent versions of the same patch series as a reply to the\n    cover letter of the first version.\n\n  - It configures \"prep-cover-template\", which tells b4 to use a custom\n    template for the cover letter. The most important change compared to\n    the default template is that our custom template also includes a\n    range-diff.\n\nThere\u0027s potentially more things that we may want to configure going\nforward, like for example auto-configuration of folks to Cc on certain\npatches. But these two tweaks feel like a good place to start.\n\nNote that these values only serve as defaults, and users may want to\ntweak those defaults based on their own preference. Luckily, users can\ndo that without having to touch `.b4-config` at all, as b4 allows them\nto override values via Git configuration:\n\n    ```\n    $ git config set b4.prep-cover-template /does/not/exist\n    $ b4 send --dry-run\n    ERROR: prep-cover-template says to use x, but it does not exist\n    ```\n\nSo this gives users an easy way to override our defaults without having\nto touch \".b4-config\", which would dirty the tree.\n\nSigned-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt \u003cps@pks.im\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Junio C Hamano \u003cgitster@pobox.com\u003e\n",
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