# News and discussions
1. Since the first release of Darcs 2.12, we released a few minor versions,
the latest being 2.12.5 on January:
- <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/darcs-2.12.5/changelog>
2. Ben Franksen performed some refactorings about Darcs (zsh) autocompletion:
-
<https://hub.darcs.net/darcs/darcs-reviewed/patch/4800ed861b90e94d6963ba9079725d7e6cdddeda>
-
<https://hub.darcs.net/darcs/darcs-reviewed/patch/4ddee01dac242abaed1d532c94f9a105bec7f272>
-
<https://hub.darcs.net/darcs/darcs-reviewed/patch/ad82b9f4b110df2924e1fa1fb6074c48a2cf6234>
2. As for Darcsden, the backend of <http://hub.darcs.net>, progress has been
made on modernizing the ssh server used by it:
- <https://hub.darcs.net/ganesh/ssh/issue/5>
- <https://hub.darcs.net/simon/darcsden>
# Issues resolved (7)
issue2138 Guillaume Hoffmann
~ - report conflicting files in whatsnew -s
- <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2138>
issue2496 Ben Franksen
~ - improve output of darcs whatsnew with file arguments
- <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2496>
issue2498 Ganesh Sittampalam
~ - unconditionally use the Haskell HTTP package
- <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2498>
issue2504 Ben Franksen
~ - skip ssh tests that require password input
- <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2504>
issue2512 Stephan-A. Posselt
~ - author name is written to repository after multiple-choice prompt
- <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2512>
issue2516 Ben Franksen
~ - joining (possible) URL path elements should not use `</>` from
System.FilePath
- <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2516>
issue2526 Ben Franksen
~ - actually consider boring option in D.UI.Flags.diffingOpts
- <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2526>
# Patches applied (196)
2017-04-20 Ben Franksen
~ - whatsnew: fixed wrong use of term hunk in help texts and comments
- fixed haddocks for FreeRight
- harness: honor failing- prefix for network tests just as for shell tests
2017-04-14 Ganesh Sittampalam
~ - remove some impredicativity in the test harness
2017-04-01 Gian Piero Carrubba
~ - Miscellaneous minor cleanups
2017-03-31 Ben Franksen
~ - fixed type option argument to --siblings
- cleanup imports in diff command
- removed all help options
- remove --overview option, add -V as --version alias
- zsh completion: suppress possible error messages with --list-options
- removed unused option reorderPatches (all commands use option 'reorder')
- add class YesNo and instances to Darcs.Options.All
- more option renaming: askdeps->askDeps, workingRepoDir->repoDir
2017-03-28 Ben Franksen
~ - refactor: replace all trivial functions in D.UI.Flags with re-exports
- fix handling of parse errors for --max-count option
- renamed option xmloutput to xmlOutput
- added infix operator (?) as synonym for parseFlags
- remove flag list manipulation from show {authors, repo}
- cleaned up pull command
2017-03-08 Gian Piero Carrubba
~ - Accept issue2275: darcs follows symbolic links instead of ignoring them
2017-03-28 Ben Franksen
~ - cleanup of Darcs.UI.Options "master" module
- cleaned up obsolete comment in Darcs.UI.Options.All
- renamed hasXmlOutput to xmlOutput, hasXmlOutput returns Bool
- rename (amQuiet,amVerbose) to (quiet,verbose), move to
D.UI.Flags, and export
- re-write of zsh completion script
- use knownFileArgs, not noArgs, for show files
- complete files for darcs replace only if 2 args are already present
- refactored shell completion support
- refactored repair/check command
- remove files and directories options from commands that don't use them
- show repo: fixed excessively borked code indentation
- removed mention of --files from help text for show repo command
- show repo: removed --files option, removed manual flags parsing
- fix warning in harness/Storage/Hashed/Test.hs
- show repo: fixed formatting (boringfile Pref overflowed alignment)
- add patch index status to show repo command
- annotate/options: allow --human-readable to counter --machine-readable
2017-04-07 Guillaume Hoffmann
~ - remove outdated directory_confusion.sh
- remove unused toolbox.sh test
2017-03-22 Ben Franksen
~ - simplified implementation of Darcs.UI.Options.All.dryRun
- refactor: add data type for hook options
- refactor: move usage and help related functions from
Darcs.UI.Commands to Darcs.UI.Usage
- refactor: moved printDryRunMessageAndExit from
Darcs.UI.Commands to Darcs.UI.Commands.Util
- refactor: help and usage formatting cleanup
- improved haddocks for Darcs.Util.Printer
- remove umask and update_working parameters from withRepoLockCanFail
- fixed Darcs.Util.Printer.vsep by folding over a new binary
operator vplus
- removed Darcs.Util.Environment: we require base >= 4.8 anyway
so just use lookupEnv
- add cabal.project.local (created by cabal new-configure) to .boring
- tests/log.sh: run tests in separate dirs and don't remove them
- fixed typo in option help for --no-pending
2017-03-20 Ganesh Sittampalam
~ - add some more test cases of command-line substitution
- move some tests from documentation to the actual test harness
2017-03-15 Ben Franksen
~ - resolve issue2526: actually consider boring option in
D.UI.Flags.diffingOpts
- accept issue2526: whatsnew -l --boring should list boring files
2017-03-15 Gian Piero Carrubba
~ - bash_completion: copy the approach used by the zsh completion
- bash_completion: better support for multi-level commands
2016-11-02 Timo von Holtz
~ - fix mail encode with '.' or '=' as last character
2017-02-26 Ben Franksen
~ - fixed a todo comment regarding email encoding
- add roundtrip property for email MIME codec and a unit test
- resolve issue2504: skip ssh tests that require password input
2016-09-29 Guillaume Hoffmann
~ - introduce withOldRepoLock, reduce code specific to old-fashioned repos
- save lines in D.R.Hashed
- remove a useless forall in D.R.Pending
- remove useless language extensions in Darcs.Repository modules
- remove a few useless foralls
- rename Darcs.Repository.Internal to Darcs.Repository.Identify
- move hashed related functions from Internal to Hashed
- move repoPatchType from Internal to InternalTypes
- create Repository.Working
- move merge related functions from Internal to Merge
- move pending related functions from Internal to Pending
- rename Darcs.Repository.HashedRepo to Darcs.Repository.Hashed
2017-03-08 Gian Piero Carrubba
~ - Fix `'optimize <subcommand> --list-options'`
2016-12-20 Ben Franksen
~ - resolve issue2516: joining (possible) URL path elements should
not use `</>` from System.FilePath
2017-01-10 Ganesh Sittampalam
~ - support vector 0.12
- support directory 1.3
- support HUnit 1.4 and 1.5
- support time 1.7
- add IsRepoType constraint to the PrimV1Job type
2016-10-18 Stephan-A. Posselt
~ - resolve issue2512: author name is written to repository after
multiple-choice prompt
- added regression test for issue2512
2016-09-29 Guillaume Hoffmann
~ - typo in test oldfashioned.sh
- remove show bug test
- merge Motd module into Prefs
- remove show bug hidden command
- delete outdated script run-all-tests
- merge two tests into revert.sh
- merge one add test into add.sh
- rollback template haskell hack since we use cabal >= 1.18
- bump cabal dependency to 1.22.5 and remove workaround in cabal file
- bump dependencies following haskell platform 7.10.3
- mark comment as TODO
- really fix compilation under Windows
- resolve issue2510: import Control.Exception even under Windows
- changelog entries for 2.12.1 and 2.12.2
- add missing sshlib import to test
- no longer print darcs version in output of help markdown
- resolve issue2507: add tests/network/sshlib to extra-sources-files
2016-08-31 Ganesh Sittampalam
~ - improve error message when library ends up unbuildable
- bump QuickCheck dependency
- resolve issue2498: unconditionally use the Haskell HTTP package
2016-05-06 Ben Franksen
~ - added regression test for issue2496
- resolve issue2496: improve output of darcs whatsnew with file arguments
- fix in record: use only existing file arguments when querying patches
2016-05-05 Ganesh Sittampalam
~ - silence the GHC 8.0 redundant constraints warning for now
- remove unused class member 'maybeWork' from ParserM
- remove unused class member 'toChar' from Darcs.Util.Path.CharLike
- remove unused class member 'toFL' from Darcs.Patch.Non.WL
2016-07-02 Sergei Trofimovich
~ - Tweak for sandi-0.4.*
2016-09-01 Guillaume Hoffmann
~ - require GHC 7.10 and time 1.5
- merge show contents tests
- merge diff tests
- remove trivial test justrm.sh
- merge one test into rmdir.sh
- delete rmdir-formerly-pl.sh subsumed by show_files.sh
- merge two tests into record.sh
- merge one test into clone.sh
- merge init tests
- merge annotate tests
- merge rollback tests
- merge apply tests
- merge tag tests
- merge repair and check tests
- merge oldfashioned tests
- remove unclear nfs-failure.sh test
- merge clone tests
- bump version to 2.13.0
- TAG 2.12.0
- remove -prof flags from darcs.cabal
- do not pass rts flag for library
- remove hpc flag since cabal supports it since 2015
- 2.12 changelog
- move runHLint.sh to contrib and add to darcs.cabal
- bump version to 2.12.0
- consistently use 'working tree' phrase
- merge a test into optimize.sh
- merge tests into log.sh and rename changes to log
- consolidate push shell tests
- consolidate pull shell tests
- consolidate add shell tests
- improve issue1825 test
- consolidate remove shell tests
- consolidate unrecord shell tests
- consolidate mv shell tests
- consolidate record shell tests
- consolidate unrevert shell tests
- rename changes tests to log and consolidate
- consolidate amend shell tests into one
- consolidate dist shell tests into one
- consolidate replace shell tests into one
- consolidate whatsnew shell tests into one
- consolidate obliterate shell tests into one
- merge UI.RemoteApply into UI.Commands.Push
- remove support for DARCS_GET_ and DARCS_APPLY_ hacks
- fix failing-merging_newlines.sh
- fix failing-issue2293
- rm failing-issue2238 wrongly failing and fixed anyway
- add lib import to test
- fix issue1702 test and accept issue as resolved
- fix failing-issue1316
- remove failing-issue1013 tests as not interesting
- remove annotate --index form failing-index test
2016-02-28 Ganesh Sittampalam
~ - support base-4.9 (GHC 8.0)
- add type signature needed for GHC 8.0
- add pragma needed for GHC 8.0
2016-04-21 Guillaume Hoffmann
~ - update messages in Darcs.Patch.Match
- reduce help of init
- mention weak hash in help of show repo
- update help of diff
- reduce help of push
- reduce help of pull
- reduce help of clone
- reduce help of record
- darcs help: new sections and order for commands
- remove all hidden aliases of show, deprecated for years
- make some command descriptions shorter and nicer
- merge all show patch-index commands into one
- hlint Darcs.UI.Commands.Convert
- hlint Darcs.UI.Commands.Optimize
- hlint Darcs.Util.Ssh
- hlint Darcs.Util.Tree*
- remove unnecessary pragma in Darcs.Util.Exception
- remove unnecessary pragma in Darcs.UI.Command.Record
- remove unnecessary pragma in Darcs.UI.Command.Convert
- remove unnecessary pragma in Darcs.UI.Command.Apply
- remove unnecessary pragmas in Darcs.Repository.Rebase
- remove unnecessary pragma in Darcs.Patch.Rebase.Container
- remove unnecessary pragma and do in Darcs.Patch.Named.Wrapped
2016-04-21 Ganesh Sittampalam
~ - add a couple of missing upper bounds
- add traverse to Darcs.Prelude to fix build on GHC 7.6
2016-04-08 Guillaume Hoffmann
~ - resolve issue2138: report conflicting files in whatsnew -s
- move local functions of getMovesPs closer to where used
- reimplement resolution of --look-for-moves and update tests
- fix and clarify getReplaces
- fix a network test after annotate patch feature removal
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