.b4-config: add

b4 now supports reading this config file, which obsoletes the hack
that was in shell.nix before.

Signed-off-by: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 25 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/contributing/b4.adoc b/Documentation/contributing/b4.adoc
index b41dc58..de2c93d 100644
--- a/Documentation/contributing/b4.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/contributing/b4.adoc
@@ -4,19 +4,12 @@
 :page-nav_order: 1
 
 // SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
-// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Unikie
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GFDL-1.3-no-invariants-or-later OR CC-BY-SA-4.0
 
 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/b4/b4.git/about/[b4] is a utility
 for working with patches sent to a mailing list, such as
 https://spectrum-os.org/participating.html#spectrum-devel[devel@spectrum-os.org].
 
-NOTE: If you run `nix-shell` in the root of the Spectrum source tree,
-you'll be dropped into a development shell that has b4 set up
-correctly, and you don't need to do anything else.  You only need to
-configure it manually as described here if you want it to work outside
-of the Spectrum root's nix-shell.
-
 == Installing b4
 
 You should be able to install b4 from your package manager.
@@ -27,24 +20,6 @@ Using Nix, you can start a shell with b4 available by running:
 [source,shell]
 nix-shell -p b4
 
-== Configuring b4
-
-As b4 was originally written for Linux development, it will default to
-searching for patches on the Linux mailing lists.  So to use it for
-Spectrum, it needs to be configured to search the Spectrum mailing
-lists instead.
-
-To do this, in a checkout of the appropriate git repository
-(https://spectrum-os.org/git/spectrum[Spectrum] or
-https://spectrum-os.org/git/nixpkgs[Spectrum Nixpkgs]), run:
-
-[listing]
-[source,shell]
-git config b4.midmask https://spectrum-os.org/lists/archives/spectrum-devel/%s
-
-From now on, any b4 command run in Spectrum repositories will search
-the Spectrum devel mailing list.
-
 == Using b4
 
 Using b4 to fetch and apply a patch from the Spectrum mailing list is