News and discussions -------------------- 1. Eric announced the release of darcs 2.4.3, which fixes critical bugs under Windows and fixes the performance regression of darcs convert:
* http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-May/023972.html * http://wiki.darcs.net/Releases/2.4 * http://wiki.darcs.net/Binaries 2. Simon Michael proposed a cleanup of the repository format names and gathered a few answers and proposals: * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-May/023936.html * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-May/023969.html 3. Ganesh and Petr explained why it is not recommended anymore to build darcs with GHC 6.8: * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-April/023774.html * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-April/023776.html * http://wiki.darcs.net/Debian Issues resolved in the last week (7) ------------------------------------ issue64 Reinier Lamers * store metadata as UTF-8, autodetect UTF-8, and don't normalize to NFC * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue64 issue1232 Dino Morelli * darcs convert forgets _darcs/prefs/prefs * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1232 issue1760 Petr Rockai * Fix working directory handling in Commands.Convert. * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1760 issue1769 Matthias Kilian * add support for --match 'comment ...' * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1769 issue1814 Petr Rockai * Include contrib/darcs-errors.hlint in release tarball. * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1814 issue1824 Eric Kow * avoid PACKAGE_VERSION under Windows. * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1824 issue1837 Petr Rockai * Add readWorking and use it in pristineFromWorking. * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1837 Patches applied in the last week (115) -------------------------------------- 2010-05-09 Eric Kow - Update homepage news for darcs 2.4.3 release. - Update website to link to 2.4.3 tarball. - The roundup tracker does not use a guest/guest login. 2010-05-08 Petr Rockai - Fix a number of "unused" warnings in Darcs.Commands.*. - Fix a number of "unused" warnings in Darcs.Repository*. - A new implementation of PatchSet and its operations. - Give a more informative error when hunk apply fails. 2010-05-08 Jason Dagit - work around cabal flag composition bug 2010-05-07 Eric Kow - Camel case Darcs.Test. - Camel case Darcs.Commands.ShowFiles. - Mark issue1837 test as passing. - Accept issue1837: inconsistent repo upon darcs get --partial. 2010-05-06 Petr Rockai - Also use readWorking in setScriptsExecutable (minor refactor). - Resolve issue1837: Add readWorking and use it in pristineFromWorking. - In replacePristine, cope also with Trees that have no hashes in them. 2010-05-07 Eric Kow - Remove seemingly unused Darcs.CheckFileSystem. 2010-05-06 Petr Rockai - Remove unorm.h dependency on Windows, since it's no longer used. - Remove the icuuc dependency now that it is no longer used. - Fix compilation on GHC 6.12 on win32 (needs unix-compat). - Normalise path separators in the query_manifest test. - Let's try to fix install-deps.sh for the case of multiple packages missing. - Bump hashed-storage dependency to 0.5. - Purge Slurpy usage in Commands.Rollback (use announceFiles from whatsnew). - Use stock setScriptsExecutable from Darcs.Repository in Commands.Convert. - Clean up unused bits in Repository.HashedIO. - Make clean_hashdir work on repository-local dirs even without caches. - Resolve conflict in Commands.Record. - Resolve conflicts in Commands.Add. - Resolve conflicts in Match. - Resolve conflict in Commands.Move. - Resolve conflicts in Repository.Internal. - Resolve conflicts in Commands.ShowFiles. - Filter out _darcs in setScriptsExecutable. - Make the automatic pristine conversion a bit nicer. - Bump the mmap dependency to match that of hashed-storage HEAD. - Remove a couple of unused Cache parameters. - Automatically drop size prefixes from all of pristine when needed. - Purge unused fileExists from Commands.Record. - Avoid use of SlurpDirectory in Commands.ShowFiles. - Remove SlurpDirectory. - Replace slurp_recorded with readRecorded in make_new_pending. - Use a more canonic way to create empty hashed pristine. - Reimplement applyHashed in terms of hashedTreeIO (Storage.Hashed.Monad). - Use a more canonic way to create empty hashed pristine in optimize (--upgrade). - Port Commands.Move from Slurpy to Tree. - Re-implement setScriptsExecutable using Trees instead of Slurpies. - Re-implement optimize --relink using Trees instead of Slurpies. - Generalize announceFiles used by whatsnew and use it in record as well. - Re-work Commands.Add (simplify, use the new treeHas* functions). - Re-implement the Slurp-based file/dir existence-check functions in terms of Trees. - Replace SlurpDirectory usage in Commands.Add with Tree-based code. - Remove implementation of --store-in-memory, simplifying matcher code. 2010-05-05 Eric Kow - Camel case some leftovers in Darcs.Commands.{Add,Move}. - Camel case Darcs.Commands.Pull again (fetch). - Catch Darcs.Hopefully up with Darcs.Patch.Info camel casing. - Resolve conflicts: fetch, obliterate -o vs SelectChanges refactor. 2010-04-22 Florent Becker - Add a fetch command - Add -o option to obliterate, to keep a backup of the patch - fix conflicts in Send - extract a few functions from Send 2010-05-05 Dino Morelli - Extend issue1232: darcs convert fails if missing _darcs/prefs/prefs - Extend issue1232: test to account for missing _darcs/prefs/prefs case 2010-05-05 Eric Kow - Camel case Darcs.Patch.Info. - Remove redundant Darcs.Commands.Optimize.isTag. - Fix typos in matcher documentation. 2010-05-02 Matthias Kilian - Documentation for `hunk' and `comment' matchers - resolve issue1769: add support for --match 'comment ...' 2010-05-05 Eric Kow - Camel case unit tester. - Fix unit.lhs: s/metadataStringTest/metadataDecodingTest/. 2010-05-02 Petr Rockai - Resolve issue1760: Fix working directory handling in Commands.Convert. 2010-05-02 Florent Becker - remove spurious todo in Choices.hs - make the new Patch.Choices compile in ghc6.10 - Fix representation of patches in darcs revert's interactive selection - Clean up the new version of Patch.Choices - fix patch counting in interactive selection - fix conflicts in SelectChanges - Change representation of PatchChoices - resolve conflicts in SelectChanges - monadify interactive patch selection - Resolve conflicts in Record.lhs - add the --reverse option to all patch-selecting commands - resolve conflicts in AmendRecord.lhs - Simplify SelectChanges' interface and non-interactive part - add a witnessed zipper type - Some haddocks for Patch.Choices 2010-05-02 Reinier Lamers - Rename metadataStringTest to metadataDecodingTest - Add some haddock in Darcs.Patch.Info - Document behavior of text decoding functions in case of malformed input - resolve issue64: store metadata as UTF-8, autodetect UTF-8, and don't normalize to NFC 2010-04-30 Petr Rockai - Resolve issue1814: Include contrib/darcs-errors.hlint in release tarball. 2010-05-03 Eric Kow - Resolve issue1824: avoid PACKAGE_VERSION under Windows. - Avoid PACKAGE_VERSION CPP macro in HTTP (see issue1824 note below). 2010-04-25 Dmitry Kurochkin - Haddock for Darcs.Repository.Cache.unionRemoteCaches. 2010-04-14 Eric Kow - Camel case SHA1. 2010-04-27 Petr Rockai - Fix typo (dacas -> darcs). 2010-04-18 Dmitry Kurochkin - URL: keep notify MVars in a single place. - Fix hscurl.c when URL is downloaded during the first call to curl_multi_perform. - hscurl.c: remove #ifdef HAVE_CURL check. - Simplify libcurl pipelining configuration. - Pass -DCURL_PIPELINING to C compiler when HTTP pipelining is enabled. 2010-04-26 Eric Kow - Mention darcs blog and planet on homepage. 2010-04-17 Dino Morelli - style tweak: reformatted an import - Resolve issue1232: darcs convert forgets _darcs/prefs/prefs - Accept issue1232: darcs convert forgets _darcs/prefs/prefs 2010-04-23 Eric Kow - Camel case Darcs.Patch.OldDate. - Camel case Darcs.URL. - Camel case Darcs.Resolution. - Camel case Darcs.CommandsAux. - Camel case Darcs.ArgumentDefaults. - Camel case ByteStringUtils. 2010-04-25 Petr Rockai - Skip tests/issue1645-ignore-symlinks on win32. - Bump h-s dependency to 0.4.12, working around an lstat bug on windows. 2010-04-22 Florent Becker - export the right list of patches when not pulling anything - Resolve conflicts in Commands.Pull - Refactor Darcs.Commands.Pull _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
