Hi everybody, I am very pleased to announce the first pre-release of darcs 2.0.3, available at http://www.darcs.net/darcs-2.0.3pre1.tar.gz
This pre-release includes a few major bug fixes and a handful of interesting features. I expect darcs 2.0.3 to be more reliable than its predecessors. We have better HTTP support, safer handling of the pending patch and a more solid implementation of common flags (for example, darcs get --to-match or darcs diff --patch). For more details, see the attached list. So what are we working on to get darcs 2.0.3 out the door? Aside from the usual testing, I hope that we can round out our improved reliability with a few small user interface enhancements, mostly to help users avoid some common pitfalls of real world version control: - issue53: detection of Windows reserved device names - issue971: hashed darcs check - issue1003: more tolerant darcs-transfer mode - issue1039: detection of seemingly unrelated repositories (see http://bugs.darcs.net for details) In the meantime, please give darcs 2.0.3pre1 a try and let us know how things go! Thanks, -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9
* New Feature: Optional readline-like functionality when compiled with the
haskeline package (Gaetan Lehmann)
* Bug Fix: No more spurious pending patches (issue709, issue1012, David
Roundy)
* Bug Fix: darcs get --to-match now works with hashed repositories
(issue885, David Roundy)
* User Experience: Catch mistakes in _darcs/prefs/defaults (issue691, Dmitry
Kurochkin)
* User Experience: Improved support for darcs send over http (see also
tools/upload.cgi) (Dmitry Kurochkin, David Roundy)
* Bug Fix: Recognize [EMAIL PROTECTED]: as an ssh path, that is, not
requiring a path after the server component. (David Roundy)
* New Feature: Accept an optional directory argument in darcs send
--output-auto-name (Dmitry Kurochkin)
* User Experience: New --no-cache option to help debug network issues
(issue1054, Dmitry Kurochkin)
* Performance: New --http-pipelining and --no-http-pipelining flags. Passing
--http-pipelining to darcs can make darcs get and pull faster over HTTP.
Due to a libcurl bug, this is not the default option unless darcs is
compiled with libcurl 7.19.1, due 2008-11. (Dmitry Kurochkin)
* Bug Fix: Eliminate hanging and crashes while fetching files over HTTP
(issue920, issue977, issue996, issue1037, Dmitry Kurochkin)
* Security: Fix some insecure uses of printfs in darcs.cgi (Steve Cotton)
* Bug Fix: Handle filepaths in a simpler and more robust fashion. This fixes
relative filepaths and recognition of symbolic links and avoids possible
future bugs (issue950, issue1057, David Roundy, Dmitry Kurochkin)
* Bug Fix: Make darcs diff --patch work even if the patch is within a tag
(issue966, darcs 2 regression, Dmitry Kurochkin)
* Quality Assurance: Extend use of Haskell's GADTs to most of the darcs
code, fixing many potential bugs along the way (Jason Dagit, David Roundy)
* Quality Assurance: Several improvements to darcs code quality (Petr
Ročkai)
* Bug Fix: Correct assumptions made by darcs about Windows file size types
(issue1015, Simon Marlow, Ganesh Sittampalam)
* Bug Fix: Support case insensitive file systems using hashed repositories
in darcs repair (partial issue971, Petr Ročkai)
* Quality Assurance: Simplify building darcs on Windows by optionally using
the zlib and terminfo Haskell packages (Ganesh Sittampalam, Petr Ročkai)
* User Experience: Better error reporting when patches that should commute
fail to do so. (Jason Dagit)
* New Feature: --match "touch filenames", for example --match 'touch
foo|bar|splotz.*(c|h)' (issue115, Dmitry Kurochkin)
* User Experience: Improve debugging and error messages in HTTP code (Dmitry
Kurochkin, David Roundy)
* Bug Fix: Ensure that darcs responds to Ctrl-C on Window, even if compiled
with GHC < 6.10 (issue1016, Simon Marlow)
* New Feature: darcs changes --context now also works with --human-readable
and --xml-output (issue995, Dmitry Kurochkin)
* Bug Fix: Always darcs send with context, as if --unified flag were used
(was implemented in 2.0.2, but not consistently) (David Roundy)
* Bug Fix: Make sure that darcs get --tag works even when the user hits
Ctrl-C to get a lazy repository (Dmitry Kurochkin)
* Quality Assurance: Improvements to documentation and online help, most
crucially, user-focused help on upgrading to darcs 2. (Trent Buck, Lele
Gaifax, Simon Michael, Max Battcher)
* New Feature: darcs changes --number associates each patch with number,
counting backwards (see the --index feature) (David Roundy)
* New Feature: ability to match patches on index, for example, darcs changes
--index=3-6 shows the last three to six patches (David Roundy)
* User Experience: slightly reduce the verbosity of darcs pull --verbose
(David Roundy)
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