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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 |