Re: [darcs-users] roadmap / priorities for Darcs (2016 edition!)

2016-10-21 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Hi Alexander, Darcs currently does not support signing data inside of repositories. It does only provide *patch bundle* signing in the "darcs send" command and checking the signature in "darcs apply". Now, patch signing in Darcs seems dificult to implement because context changes modify the

[darcs-users] roadmap / priorities for Darcs (2016 edition!)

2016-09-08 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
HI all, Although it is uncertain at which rate Darcs' development is going to happen in the next months, I'd like to make a little summary of what we could do now: * since we now require GHC >= 7.10 we can grep through the TODO's in the source code and try to fix those that wish for new GHC

[darcs-users] [ANN] Darcs 2.12.1 release

2016-09-05 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
be installed via cabal or (soon) stack. The 2.12 branch is also available as a darcs repository from http://darcs.net/releases/branch-2.12 . Thanks! Guillaume Hoffmann ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman

Re: [darcs-users] diff algorithm: matching similar lines

2016-08-21 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Ah :) Yes, what you described would be an "ideal" patch for that case. ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

Re: [darcs-users] diff algorithm: matching similar lines

2016-08-21 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
In the example you gave, "darcs record" just removes the "a" line (current or old diff algorithm). ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

Re: [darcs-users] diff algorithm: matching similar lines

2016-08-21 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Hi Henning, You are right saying that Darcs matches exactly equal lines. I'm afraid that what you are proposing is not possible with Darcs' current internal representation of patches. Darcs handles patches in a line-based way. So the problem is worse than computationnal cost. But a future and

[darcs-users] [ANN] Darcs 2.12.0 release

2016-04-29 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
patch viewing via the "darcs annotate" command. (Guillaume Hoffmann) * `whatsnew -s` (and `status`) show conflicting files (Guillaume Hoffmann) * honor "quiet" flag in command outputs (Ben Franksen) * a single `show patch-index` command (Guillaume Hoffmann) * remove deprec

Re: [darcs-users] plans for Darcs 2.12

2016-04-22 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Hi, the 2.12 branch is available at http://darcs.net/releases/branch-2.12 Supported GHC versions are from 7.6 to the latest 8 rc3 (thanks to patches by Ganesh). Testers are welcome! The current target release day is thursday 28/4. Guillaume ___

[darcs-users] Darcs News #113

2016-04-15 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
- <http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2016-April/027197.html> - <http://darcs.net/Sprints/2016-05> # Issues resolved (5) issue1807 Guillaume Hoffmann ~ - clarify help of PAGER, DARCS_PAGER - <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1807> issue2258 Guillaume Hoffma

Re: [darcs-users] plans for Darcs 2.12

2016-04-11 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
In the light of the next Darcs/Pijul sprint, and in the light of the lack of GHC 8 (yet), I would like to release Darcs 2.12 by the end of this month. My current plan is: * Thursday 21st of April : clone branch-2.12 from reviewed * Some day until (and including) Friday 29th of April: unleash

[darcs-users] darcs news #112

2016-04-01 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
# News and discussions 1. After 7 years of being the maintainer/Benevolent Dictator of Darcs, Eric Kow stepped down and offered me (Guillaume Hoffmann) to take over, which I accepted: - <http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2015-October/027144.html> -

Re: [darcs-users] plans for Darcs 2.12

2016-03-07 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Thanks for testing with GHC8! OK for stash; I agree to favour a sound release date over having a particular feature included in 2.12. Guillaume ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

[darcs-users] plans for Darcs 2.12

2016-03-07 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Hi everyone, we had an important release of Darcs 2.10.0 on April of 2015, and the last point-release is 2.10.3 from January of 2016. I'm aiming at releasing Darcs 2.12 whithin the next couple of months to avoid waiting too long for another "big release" which would cost us too much effort. I

[darcs-users] darcs 2.10.3 release

2016-01-29 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
The darcs team is pleased to announce the release of darcs 2.10.3 ! # Downloading # One way of installing Darcs 2.10.3 is with stack: $ stack install darcs-2.10.3 Or first install the Haskell Platform (http://www.haskell.org/platform) and install Darcs with cabal-install: $ cabal update $

Re: [darcs-users] Maintaining a history of compilable repository states

2016-01-21 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
> I assumed that 'darcs test' is the replacement 'darcs check --test', isn't > it? 'darcs test --help' says that '--once' is the default. Ok, but I was not > aware, that 'darcs test' also replaces 'trackdown'. You're right and I was wrong! "darcs test" is indeed the replacement of "darcs check

Re: [darcs-users] Maintaining a history of compilable repository states

2016-01-20 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Hi Henning, > Older darcs versions (e.g. darcs-2.5) had the 'trackdown' function. > http://darcs.net/manual/Darcs_commands.html#SECTION006112000 > > It seems to be removed in darcs-2.10. I wonder how it can work if many > interim states do not compile. It is present in 2.10 under

Re: [darcs-users] Darcs Hacking Sprint #10 (January 15th-17th, Seville)

2016-01-03 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Dear hackers, happy new year to everyone! This is a reminder for the people interested in participating. Please contact us ASAP so that we can grant you access to the university during the weekend. See http://wiki.darcs.net/Sprints/2016-01 . Thanks Guillaume

Re: [darcs-users] repository state identifier(s) in "darcs show repo"

2015-12-16 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
2015-12-15 17:18 GMT-03:00 Ganesh Sittampalam : > I think showing the XORed hashes is a good idea. We've previously held > back because of not being able to do the reverse mapping easily, but > something is better than nothing. I looked but haven't found previous discussion about

Re: [darcs-users] repository state identifier(s) in "darcs show repo"

2015-12-14 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
More info about the different hashes that Darcs uses: http://darcs.net/Internals/Hashes The XOR I propose is on hash #1. ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

[darcs-users] repository state identifier(s) in "darcs show repo"

2015-12-14 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Hi everyone, As said by David Leuschner in a previous mail, one of the shortcomings of Darcs is: "it's not as easy to refer to a specific state of the repository using a hash". As a developer I know that Darcs uses (internally) the pristine hash, which is a hash of the recorded working copy.

[darcs-users] Darcs Hacking Sprint #10 (January 15th-17th, Seville)

2015-12-10 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Dear Hackers I'm glad to announce that the 10th Darcs Sprint that will be in Seville, on January 15-17 at the ETS de Ingeniería Informática, Universidad de Sevilla. Please check the details at: http://darcs.net/Sprints/2016-01 Here are three things to know 1. Everybody is welcome to join us.

[darcs-users] darcs 2.10.2 release

2015-11-09 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
The darcs team is pleased to announce the release of darcs 2.10.2 ! # Downloading # The easiest way to install darcs 2.10.2 from source is by first installing the Haskell Platform (http://www.haskell.org/platform). If you have installed the Haskell Platform or cabal-install, you can install this

Re: [darcs-users] new darcs maintainer: Guillaume Hoffmann

2015-11-03 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Hi David, > At the moment I don't really know what to expect from Darcs. The Darcs > development team is passionate and highly competent but very small. I also > don't know what the direction will be. What are the major improvements > you'd all like to work on? Right now, I'm not working on

Re: [darcs-users] pre-sprint survey: changes that should go into darcs 2.10.2

2015-10-16 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
An update, here are the patches that are currently accepted for darcs 2.10.2 are: * remove redundant import * drop sandi lower bound to support GHC 7.4 and add an upper bound * Switch from dataenc (deprecated) to sandi * replace changes by log in two help strings * make patch selection

Re: [darcs-users] new darcs maintainer: Guillaume Hoffmann

2015-10-08 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Hi everyone, I guess I should say a few words about this :-) First I'd like to thank Eric for his work as a maintainer for 7 years, and hope he'll stick around! For the observers that might wonder what is going to change for the Darcs project, the answer is: not much. Ever since I started

Re: [darcs-users] Darcs Hacking Sprint #9 (September 18th-20th, Paris)

2015-09-15 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Just a reminder that the next Darcs sprint is *this weekend* from Friday to Sunday in Paris. Have a look below for more details! 2015-08-21 15:58 GMT-03:00 Guillaume Hoffmann <guilla...@gmail.com>: > Dear Hackers > > the next Darcs Sprint that will be in Paris, on September 1

[darcs-users] pre-sprint survey: changes that should go into darcs 2.10.2

2015-09-15 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Hi, I'd like to know if people needed a darcs 2.10.2 release soon, and if there are changes/bugs that we should particularly look at? Since we're doing the Hacking Sprint this weekend, we can have a look at the issues you think are most urgent. Don't hesitate to nag me by answering this mail

[darcs-users] Darcs News #111

2015-09-01 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Darcs 2.10.1 has been released (bugfixes, dependency versions bump): - <http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2015-July/027130.html> # Issues resolved (19) issue2102 Guillaume Hoffmann ~ - document packs in help of clone and optimize http - <http://bugs.darcs.net/

[darcs-users] Darcs Hacking Sprint #9 (September 18th-20th, Paris)

2015-08-21 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Dear Hackers the next Darcs Sprint that will be in Paris, on September 18-20 at IRILL (near Place d'Italie). Please check out the details at: http://darcs.net/Sprints/2015-09 Here are three things to know 1. Everybody is welcome to join us. We'd love to have you, whatever your Haskell or

[darcs-users] darcs 2.10.1 release

2015-07-09 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Hi all, The darcs team is pleased to announce the release of darcs 2.10.1 ! # Downloading # The easiest way to install darcs 2.10.1 from source is by first installing the Haskell Platform (http://www.haskell.org/platform). If you have installed the Haskell Platform or cabal-install, you can

[darcs-users] imminent 2.10.1 release

2015-07-07 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Dear Darcsers, I'm planning to release Darcs 2.10.1 soon, which contains a few bugfixes and dependency version bumps. If you want to help, please get, build and test the 2.10 branch from over there: * darcs clone: http://darcs.net/releases/branch-2.10/ * zip download:

Re: [darcs-users] new diff algorithm

2015-05-05 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Hi Henning, thanks for the kind comment! Indeed the new diff algorithm is called patience diff and is different and arguably more natural than the traditional myers diff. In Darcs 2.10 you can compare both diff outputs in commands like whatsnew or record by passing the flag --myers to get the

Re: [darcs-users] hcar 2015-05 draft

2015-04-27 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Nice! In further reading you could add this link: http://darcs.net/Releases/2.10 instead of the GSoC links. ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

[darcs-users] darcs 2.10.0 release

2015-04-19 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
: enable deep amending of history (Ganesh Sittampalam) - darcs pull --reorder: keep local-only patches on top of mainstream patches (Ale Gadea, Ganesh Sittampalam) - darcs dist --zip: generate a zip archive from a repository (Guillaume Hoffmann) - patch bundle contexts are minimized by default

Re: [darcs-users] Conflicts handling UI: GSoC proposal

2015-03-27 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
The proposal is also on the website (not sure if the previous link is publicly readable): http://darcs.net/GSoC/2015-Conflicts-Handling-and-UI ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

Re: [darcs-users] [darcs-devel] release 2.10 process

2015-03-03 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
An update on the darcs 2.10 release: * we are close to it, the biggest bugs have been fixed. * there are still unresolved bugs that are linked from the release page, but the only blocker is 2438, which already has a patch that I will accept friday if there is no objection (

[darcs-users] Darcs News #110

2015-03-03 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
(11) issue822 Ernesto Rodriguez ~ - Generalized the IO Type for better error messages and exception handling - http://bugs.darcs.net/issue822 issue2260 Ganesh Sittampalam ~ - skip internal patches when counting - http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2260 issue2385 Guillaume Hoffmann

[darcs-users] summer of code 2015 ideas: wreq / darcsden

2015-02-09 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Dear darcs'ers, this year's Summer of Code program starts son: by end of March, student applications should be submitted to Google. We are probably going to work again with students that have not contributed to darcs before. Since two students in my university are interested about it, I'd like

Re: [darcs-users] [darcs-devel] release 2.10 process

2015-01-26 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Hi Ben (and others), sorry for being missing-in-action for so long, The combined effect of end-of-year celebrations and summer holidays (here in the south hemisphere) removed me from darcs development for a long time. Next week I'll be able to come back to working on it. I think we can aim at

[darcs-users] Darcs News #109

2014-11-17 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
://alegdarcs.blogspot.com.ar/2014/08/last-few-weeks.html # Issues resolved (7) issue1514 Guillaume Hoffmann ~ - send --minimize-context flag for send - http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1514 issue1624 Marcio Diaz ~ - bucketed cache. - http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1624 issue2153 Andreas

Re: [darcs-users] Using hash(es) for selecting one or more patches

2014-11-09 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Please create a bug ticket and assign it to the 2.10 release :) ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

Re: [darcs-users] incoming darcs 2.10 feature freeze

2014-11-06 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Feature freeze has begun. The code for the 2.10 release lives at: http://darcs.net/releases/branch-2.10/ http://darcs.net/releases/branch-2.10/branch-2.10.zip The bugs that should be fixed for the release can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/lusjd38 This list of bugs still needs some triaging,

Re: [darcs-users] skeptical review requested: darcs tag --ask-deps

2014-11-05 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
The absence of 'd' surprised me, but I guess the idea is that you want a tag to tag 'almost everything' instead of 'almost nothing' in a repository. Otherwise you create a patch with --ask-deps. On a related note, indeed darcs amend [--unrecord] --ask-deps does not work on tags, so this is a

Re: [darcs-users] hcar 2014 november draft

2014-11-03 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
It is fine as it is. Thanks Eric! ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

[darcs-users] memory consuption of patch index in darcs 2.10

2014-10-29 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Hi, the patch index data structure will be present in darcs 2.10. It is currently enabled by default in the development version of darcs (since now 2 years). We still have a problematic issue with it, that is, when cloning big repositories, patch index creation consumes lots of memory. In some

[darcs-users] incoming darcs 2.10 feature freeze

2014-10-23 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Hi, not before next november 3th, I'm kicking off the release process of darcs 2.10 ( http://darcs.net/Development/ReleaseManagement ). That is, I will clone our reviewed repository into a release-2.10 repository, and from then on the only stuff that will go in will be bugfixes, optimizations and

Re: [darcs-users] Using hash(es) for selecting one or more patches

2014-10-09 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
The patch is now in screened (ie, the repository http://darcs.net). ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

Re: [darcs-users] Using hash(es) for selecting one or more patches

2014-10-08 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Then I think it is worth trying using -h for hash matching in 2.10. I'll send a followup patch to the bundle http://bugs.darcs.net/patch1177 soon. ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

Re: [darcs-users] Using hash(es) for selecting one or more patches

2014-08-25 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Hi Gian Piero now that `log` shows the hash of the patches, I would like to use it for selecting patches as `log (or whatever) -p` is not much handy where there are similar- or same-named patches. On the other hand, typing `--match 'hash` is boring, so I've added a `-H/--hash`[0] option that

Re: [darcs-users] Whatsnew on a rolled back repo

2014-08-25 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
The revert command creates a bundle in _darcs/patches/revert , you way find the information you need in that file. 2014-08-17 6:26 GMT-03:00 Gian Piero Carrubba gpi...@rm-rf.it: Use case: I've a repo with patches A and B that are mutually exclusive. They aren't conflicting, but both define a

Re: [darcs-users] planning a 2.8.5

2014-08-21 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Here's a patch to support network 2.6. This only affects building when the HTTP library is used. Works with: cabal install -fhttp# to use network = 2.6 cabal install -fhttp -f-network-uri # to use network 2.6 Guillaume support-network-2_6.dpatch Description: Binary data

Re: [darcs-users] planning a 2.8.5

2014-08-04 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Here's a patch to enable matching on the short patch hash, so that darcs 2.8.5 be more future-proof with regards to darcs 2.10. enable-to-match-on-short-patch-hash-_future_proofing-wrt-darcs-2_10_.dpatch Description: Binary data ___ darcs-users mailing

Re: [darcs-users] planning a 2.8.5

2014-07-30 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Looks sufficient to me. ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

[darcs-users] Darcs News #108

2014-06-24 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
of 'bad sources' - http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2364 issue2388 Owen Stephens ~ - check if inventories dir has been created - http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2388 issue2394 Guillaume Hoffmann ~ - make optimize a supercommand - http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2394 issue2396 Guillaume

[darcs-users] Darcs News #107

2014-05-05 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
`. This feature has now a more efficient implementation: - http://hub.darcs.net/darcs/darcs-reviewed/patch/20140425060647-5ef8f # Issues resolved (11) issue851 Dan Frumin ~ - interactive mode for whatsnew - http://bugs.darcs.net/issue851 issue1066 Guillaume Hoffmann

[darcs-users] Darcs News #106

2014-03-17 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
://bugs.darcs.net/issue642 issue2209 Jose Luis Neder ~ - Automatically detect replace - http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2209 issue2319 Guillaume Hoffmann ~ - make changes non-interactive if fed to a pipe - http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2319 issue2332 Guillaume Hoffmann ~ - ignore case

Re: [darcs-users] Google Summer of Code 2014: ideas wanted

2014-02-24 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Haskell.org has been selected as mentoring organization by Google: https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/list/public/google/gsoc2014 Next deadline, March 10th for the beginning of the student application period (ends March 21st). ___ darcs-users

[darcs-users] Google Summer of Code 2014: ideas wanted

2014-02-11 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Hi, this year's google summer of code starts quite early. Student application deadline is March 21st and Internship happens between May 19th and August 18th. But most importantly now, organization application deadline is Feb 14th, that is, next Friday. Darcs will probably be part of the

Re: [darcs-users] providing one-time fast-export in darcs

2014-01-09 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
I've sent http://bugs.darcs.net/patch and suggest the discussion continues on darcs-devel / the patch tracker, if that's okay? ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

Re: [darcs-users] providing one-time fast-export in darcs

2013-12-28 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
With regards to code duplication/divergence: I am proposing a minimal feature that would work for most cases. That is, small size of code, and without trying to be too clever (eg, the conflicts issue). So yes, there would be some duplication, something like 150 lines. darcs-bridge would still be

[darcs-users] providing one-time fast-export in darcs

2013-12-18 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Hi, I'd like to suggest that darcs should provide built-in, one-time fast-export output. Let me explain why we would want this, and why only the export direction: - narrative for darcs 2.10: a built-in fast-export feature fits in a narrative that presents darcs as a system that people can try

Re: [darcs-users] make `darcs changes` interactive by default?

2013-11-24 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
It may be a bad idea to do things differently just out of spite, but IMO a good reason is enough to be different. Demanding absolute necessity raises the bar a bit too high IMHO. The abolute was probably too much, nevertheless if we agree on such a guideline, we can get out of overlong

[darcs-users] darcs news #105

2013-11-24 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
=20131028184855-5ef8f-ba33870773ad9ee010a470ac8536b5c7ae331b50 # Issues resolved (8) issue346 Jose Luis Neder ~ - implement patience diff from bzr - http://bugs.darcs.net/issue346 issue1828 Guillaume Hoffmann ~ - file listing and working --dry-run for mark-conflicts - http

Re: [darcs-users] make `darcs changes` interactive by default?

2013-11-20 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
I like this, but making changes an alias for darcs log -i, thus avoiding disruption for old-time darcsers. I'm not sure about that, I believe all released versions changes has always been non-interactive by default (your patch that made it interactive only made its way into HEAD).

Re: [darcs-users] make `darcs changes` interactive by default?

2013-11-19 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
I'm thinking more and more that darcs should have a behaviour similar to the most known VCS', unless there is some *absolute* necessity (by design or design principle) to do another way. The default expected use of changes (or log) is to show the history of a repository, and we cannot really

Re: [darcs-users] make `darcs changes` interactive by default?

2013-10-10 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Any thoughts about interactive changes by default? darcs screened has had it since a few months. In some cases it switches back to non-interactive (if fed to a pipe or given --count or --xml-output, see http://bugs.darcs.net/patch1071 ). Any regrets? Guillaume

[darcs-users] patience diff now in the reviewed branch

2013-10-10 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Short summary: darcs now uses a diff algorithm that generates more human hunks, especially when editing code written in languages with curly brackets. I've recently pushed José Neder's patches (based on code written by David Roundy) to the reviewed branch of darcs. See: *

Re: [darcs-users] [darcs-devel] Mac OSX testers wanted: darcs unstable uses standard cache location

2013-07-22 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
The point is to make all programs store their cache in the same directory, so that users can just delete it when they run out of space in their home directory. When it comes to configuration files, I guess the idea of storing them all in ~/.config is to 1) unclutter the home directory 2) make it

Re: [darcs-users] Mac OSX testers wanted: darcs unstable uses standard cache location

2013-07-20 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Ok but can we assume that users never come back to old versions of darcs? If yes, then we can proceed to move everything: * detect if ~/.darcs exists * if yes, create ~/.config/darcs/, move everything under ~/.darcs/ except cache to ~/.config/darcs/ * if ~/.darcs/cache exists move

[darcs-users] Mac OSX testers wanted: darcs unstable uses standard cache location

2013-07-19 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Hi, I've just pushed to screened (ie http://darcs.net) a patch that makes darcs use a more standard cache location ( http://bugs.darcs.net/patch1080 ): This patch basically makes darcs using ~/.cache/darcs/ instead of ~/.darcs/cache. Unless $XDG_CACHE_HOME is set, in which case it will use

Re: [darcs-users] conflict but no markers

2013-07-19 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
HI, Three of these files actually contain conflict markers, but the third one (./src/seq/seq_if.c) does not. Even so, most of the changes that I expected to see in the file are not there, so it seems Darcs acted as if I had said --no-mark-conflicts. Could it be that the conflict with

Re: [darcs-users] Mac OSX testers wanted: darcs unstable uses standard cache location

2013-07-19 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Thanks for testing! I wonder if we should do something similar with ~/Library/Preferences You mean moving the contents of ~/.darcs to ~/Library/Preferences/darcs, and also ~/.darcs to ~/.config/darcs under Linux ? Darcs should do the move automatically then. Contrary to the cache, the

Re: [darcs-users] contributing to the darcs manual

2013-06-30 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Hi Iva, sorry for the late response! The manual of darcs is going to change a lot for the next release (2.10). The one that is available on-line corresponds to darcs 2.8, it is generated from latex files that used to be in darcs' repository. As it got more and more out of date (with respect to

[darcs-users] darcs news #104

2013-06-30 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
issue2321 Jose Luis Neder ~ - when no patch name given, directly invoke text editor - http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2321 # Patches applied (20) 2013-06-09 Guillaume Hoffmann ~ - make nano the default text editor instead of vi 2013-06-20 BSRK Aditya ~ - Resolve issue2250: tabbing

Re: [darcs-users] [darcs-devel] [issue2321] remove Do you want to add a long comment? prompt

2013-06-04 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
To clarify the current proposal, I renamed the issue on the bug tracker to when no patch name given, directly invoke text editor. ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

Re: [darcs-users] getSymbolicLinkStatus: does not exist

2013-05-29 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
What I recollect from your message, however, is that you point out a general issue of Robustness with darcs, and I agree with this. Especially robustness as perceived by casual users. I personally find Darcs quite reliable in my day-to-day experience. Yes, that's exactly the issue. As

[darcs-users] Fwd: [Haskell-cafe] [haskell.org Google Summer of Code 2013] Approved Projects

2013-05-29 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Congratulations to BSRK Aditya and José Neder, our Google Summer of Code students of 2013! They will work until end of September on the following projects: * http://darcs.net/GSoC/2013-Darcsden ( BSRK Aditya, mentored by Ganesh ) * http://darcs.net/GSoC/2013-BetterRecord ( José Neder, mentored

Re: [darcs-users] getSymbolicLinkStatus: does not exist

2013-05-28 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Hi Ben, First, since you are aware that we all have little time to dedicate to darcs, you should try to send shorter, more synthetic mails. What I recollect from your message, however, is that you point out a general issue of Robustness with darcs, and I agree with this. The problems you

Re: [darcs-users] [darcs-devel] [issue2321] remove Do you want to add a long comment? prompt

2013-05-23 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Alright, I believe we want to make this change: make that darcs record without -m flag directly launches the long description editor. This would make darcs behave similarly to most other VCS. Definitely a probably-easy change to do. ___ darcs-users

Re: [darcs-users] GSoC Proposal - Better record command

2013-04-30 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Hi everyone, Marcio told me that he finally will not be able to apply to GSoC this year :-( The good news is that we have an application that has already received a good amount of feedback (from Owen but also from me offline), and that can be reused by anyone who is interested. So please go

[darcs-users] darcs weekly news #103

2013-04-30 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
`amend-record`: - http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2013-March/026838.html # Issues resolved in the last week (1) issue2274 Guillaume Hoffmann ~ - create patch index only with commands that take a lock - http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2274 # Patches applied in the last

[darcs-users] darcs weekly news #102

2013-03-01 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
~ - don't allow remote operations to copy the rebase patch - http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2282 issue2287 Radoslav Dorcik ~ - obliterate -O doesn't overwrite existing file. - http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2287 # Patches applied in the last week (77) 2013-02-21 Guillaume Hoffmann

[darcs-users] make `darcs changes` interactive by default?

2013-02-21 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
What about we finally make `darcs changes` interactive by default? And (as suggested by Florent on IRC) map 'y' to 'p' (use `less`) instead of 'v' as of now. ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net

Re: [darcs-users] Darcs Hacking Sprint #8 (February 15-17, Paris)

2013-02-14 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Interesting! I'm leaving for the sprint now, but do you think you can write a nice README.md file that would describe the installation steps, and the current / planned features of your project ? thanks. ___ darcs-users mailing list

[darcs-users] darcs weekly news #101

2013-02-03 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
# News and discussions 1. Confirmed: the next Hacking Sprint will be in IRILL, Paris on February 15, 16 and 17: - http://darcs.net/Sprints/2013-02 - http://www.irill.org/ 2. Darcs HEAD has been fixed to work with GHC 7.6 without encoding bugs, go ahead and try it! -

Re: [darcs-users] next darcs sprint, February-March 2013?

2013-01-16 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
After more chatting and asking, it has been confirmed that the sprint will take place on February 15-17, in IRILL, Paris! see you there ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

Re: [darcs-users] next darcs sprint, February-March 2013?

2013-01-13 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
After some chatting on IRC we concluded that the next sprint will be: * on February 22-24 * in Paris or Southampton or (if I can get in contact with people from there) Lille. Let's give us one more week to see the options of place. In the meantime, if more people want to participate, just

[darcs-users] next darcs sprint, February-March 2013?

2012-12-20 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Hi, I'll be in Europe next February and (beginning of) March. Maybe we could arrange a sprint during this period? The event can be hosted in Nancy, France [1] (where I'll be staying) or we can do it again at the IRILL in Paris, like in spring of 2011 [2]. My possible dates would be in February

[darcs-users] darcs weekly news #98

2012-07-12 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
://darcs.net 3. Eric Kow documented the workflow of having a group of users working with the same repository: - http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2012-June/026523.html - http://darcs.net/Using/GroupRepo # Issues resolved in the last week (3) issue2193 Guillaume Hoffmann

Re: [darcs-users] website/wiki front page

2012-07-04 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Hi Eric, if you know how to make darcs.net redirect to the wiki and keep on serving the screened and reviewed repositories at the same place, why not. Otherwise we will have to wait until we have a working den.darcs.net and more all of our repos over there (which I think would be something we

Re: [darcs-users] website/wiki front page

2012-06-29 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
I've converted the 'thanks' and 'donations' pages as wiki pages. I don't think we need to make redirections from their old URL to these wiki pages. In the 'donation' page I couldn't copy the javascript piece of code for google checkout, but donating with this widget seems to work anyway. I can't

[darcs-users] website/wiki front page

2012-06-17 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
For those who haven't followed, we are trying to move some things out of darcs' darcs repository. One of these things is the website homepage, that we're trying to embed into the wiki. We dicussed the topic on darcs-devel (the topic was tackled among many other things, see Eric's answer to the

[darcs-users] darcs weekly news #97

2012-05-28 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
Guillaume Hoffmann ~ - haddock for fixUrl and fix 2 haddocks - make darcs apply work with url - kill footnotes in manual and uninformative command-overview paragraph 2012-05-18 Michael Hendricks ~ - Fix show-authors test on OS X 2012-05-16 Owen Stephens ~ - Tidy/Style

[darcs-users] optimization in HEAD: darcs diff

2012-05-21 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
I'd like to share to the darcs-users list another significant change in HEAD that happened after the release of Darcs 2.8, this time an optimization. In 2010 Petr Rockai optimized the darcs diff command, but a few things blocked the inclusion of this piece of code into darcs. Notably, the

Re: [darcs-users] optimization in HEAD: darcs diff

2012-05-21 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
A few memory allocation figures obtained with +RTS -s for two cases (recent patch and old patch): * patch kill footnotes (latest): 2.8 287,535,128 bytes allocated in the heap 59,356,640 bytes copied during GC 14,969,680 bytes maximum residency (9 sample(s)) 342,752

Re: [darcs-users] new feature in HEAD: exponential backoff test strategy

2012-05-20 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
I've updated the wiki page which url is now http://wiki.darcs.net/Using/Test . g. ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

[darcs-users] darcs weekly news #96

2012-05-14 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
in Darcs.Command. 2012-05-12 Guillaume Hoffmann ~ - Accept issue2138 whatsnew --summary not reporting conflicts - fix duplicate appearance of darcs test in manual - fix failing test for issue2100 - make exit code of darcs add non-zero if any adds fail 2012-01-19 Ganesh

[darcs-users] darcs weekly news #95

2012-04-27 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
as a Summer of Code student to work on the patch index optimization: - http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/bsrkaditya/28002 - http://wiki.darcs.net/GSoC/2012-PatchIndex # Issues resolved in the last week (4) issue1166 Guillaume Hoffmann ~ - --unified flag

[darcs-users] darcs weekly news #94

2012-04-04 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
- Replace witness CPP macros with plain Haskell in Darcs.Test.Misc 2012-03-31 Simon Michael ~ - another fix for utf8.sh test, update to current rollback ui 2012-03-27 Michael Hendricks ~ - List conflicted files one per line 2012-03-24 Guillaume Hoffmann ~ - make darcs test more

[darcs-users] darcs weekly news #93

2012-03-28 Thread Guillaume Hoffmann
and apply * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1228 issue2145 Guillaume Hoffmann * enable j key in amend-record * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2145 Patches applied in the last week (20) - 2012-01-22 Owen Stephens - Fix amend-unrecord test, broken by last-regrets

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