[darcs-users] [patch331] Suggest public domain for tests by default.

2010-08-07 Thread Trent W. Buck
Trent W. Buck trentb...@gmail.com added the comment: Eric Kow wrote: Just a quick question for you. Is it OK if we change the EXAMPLE.sh template to just Public domain instead of the BSD3 boilerplate? Assuming you're asking for my permission as the author: yes. If you'are asking whether

[darcs-users] [patch111] Contribute vc-darcs.el for Emacs VC support.

2010-08-07 Thread Trent W. Buck
Trent W. Buck trentb...@gmail.com added the comment: Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: I sent the papers to the FSF. I never received a reply. The process was rather unpleasant (I couldn't just sign a document saying I assign all alienable rights to vc-darcs.el to the FSF, as I can do with e.g

Re: [darcs-users] reimplementing darcs put

2010-06-08 Thread Trent W. Buck
Guillaume Hoffmann guilla...@gmail.com writes: ssh -R 2000:localhost:22 somewhere.else SSH_PORT=2000 darcs get localhost:some/repo But this requires the user to have a ssh server on their local machine, and ssh would prompt the password and maybe use the wrong username to connect back to

Re: [darcs-users] reimplementing darcs put

2010-06-08 Thread Trent W. Buck
Petr Rockai wrote: trentb...@gmail.com (Trent W. Buck) writes: I suppose I could modify it trivially to (untested) busybox httpd -f -p 12345 -h . ssh -R 12345:127.0.0.1:12345 fs darcs get --complete http://127.0.0.1:12345 x kill $! ...which wouldn't require putting a key

Re: [darcs-users] How to downgrade darcs 2.4 - 2.2?

2010-05-30 Thread Trent W. Buck
Dan Pascu d...@ag-projects.com writes: I always have to make a clone of a repo before doing any pull, because if there is a conflict, the repo will be completely messed after the pull. Working with the constant fear that a simple pull can result in a big mess that could take a lot of time and

Re: [darcs-users] How to downgrade darcs 2.4 - 2.2?

2010-05-30 Thread Trent W. Buck
Dan Pascu d...@ag-projects.com writes: [issue1187] Darcs simply provides an empty file for one of the versions to the external merge tool IIRC that happens when there's a mv; darcs diff and external merge don't handle that case. I don't have an external merge tool available right now, so I

Re: [darcs-users] [issue1371] darcs assumes -p for SSH_PORT; but putty takes -P

2010-05-30 Thread Trent W. Buck
Eric Kow ko...@darcs.net writes: If I understand correctly, you're trying different ssh commands (plink -P, ssh -p, etc) in succession and returning the first one which succeeds. FWIW, I normally don't supply options on the CLI; instead, they go in .ssh/config, e.g. Host *.example.net

Re: [darcs-users] [issue1371] darcs assumes -p for SSH_PORT; but putty takes -P

2010-05-30 Thread Trent W. Buck
Eric Kow ko...@darcs.net writes: I don't really remember the issues behind it, but I seem to remember that all the Darcs/Windows guides that get written talk about setting a key with an empty passphrase. I think it may be something to do with PuTTY grabbing the passphrase from stdin instead

Re: [darcs-users] [issue1371] darcs assumes -p for SSH_PORT; but putty takes -P

2010-05-30 Thread Trent W. Buck
Max Battcher m...@worldmaker.net writes: So any good Darcs on Windows guide will have to explain SSH keys and agents (pageant), because PuTTY's agent doesn't do some of the auto-launch, auto-cookie magic that OpenSSH does (particularly with the (awesome) super-agents that modern distros

Re: [darcs-users] [issue1371] darcs assumes -p for SSH_PORT; but putty takes -P

2010-05-30 Thread Trent W. Buck
Matthias Kilian k...@outback.escape.de writes: On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 09:50:22PM +0100, Eric Kow wrote: What if the user renames their plink to ssh? Even worse: what if someone with a non-Windows operating system has some command named `plink' installed in his PATH, where that `plink' does

Re: [darcs-users] deps.pl?

2010-05-30 Thread Trent W. Buck
Isaac Dupree m...@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org writes: (Is there anyway to create a repo with no patches in it that has the same patch-format, i.e. darcs1 vs. darcs2, as another one? I didn't see any options in either `darcs get` or `darcs init` that would let me do this. It's needed so that

Re: [darcs-users] deps.pl?

2010-05-30 Thread Trent W. Buck
Eric Kow ko...@darcs.net writes: So how does this deps.pl work? Is it doing something which effectively works out the same as computing a minimal context? Is it reasonable to expect the idea to work (not to speak of the implementation?). Last time I looked, it worked by creating an empty

Re: [darcs-users] ANNOUNCE: darcs-2.4.4

2010-05-27 Thread Trent W. Buck
Eric Kow ko...@darcs.net writes: Alternatively, you can download the tarball from http://darcs.net/releases/darcs-2.4.4_1.tar.gz and build it by hand as explained in the README file. Due to a cock-up on my part, Debian's darcs 2.4.4-1 has the _1 fix in the orig.tar.gz, but patches it back to

Re: [darcs-users] darcs-2.4.4 ready for packaging?

2010-05-20 Thread Trent W. Buck
Eric Kow ko...@darcs.net writes: Salvatore and others, http://darcs.net/releases/darcs-2.4.4.tar.gz You have one week. :-) Works for me. I'll upload to sid when it hits hackage. ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net

Re: [darcs-users] Proposal: staging before release

2010-05-11 Thread Trent W. Buck
Salvatore Insalaco kirb...@gmail.com writes: Hi guys, I know that this may be unpopular, but now that we have official packages (on Windows and soon on OS X) I propose this change on the release policy: Make the final (no RC, the final tar.gz) release of darcs available to packagers one

Re: [darcs-users] darcs patch: Data format and converter for square r... (and 4 more)

2010-05-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Max Battcher m...@worldmaker.net writes: So this is a fun bundle of patches..∙ After the get it done but try not to touch/break anything important first attempt at Graphing, this bundle of patches factors out the common parts of tabulateRepo/graphRepo. Stupid question: are these histographs,

Re: [darcs-users] darcs repository format naming cleanup

2010-05-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Simon Michael si...@joyful.com writes: - -backward-compatible is long, so awkward for ui and docs and conversation. It's also easy to misremember as backwards. -bc is shorter but less clear. It's also not clear how far the backwards compatibility extends :-)

Re: [darcs-users] darcs repository format naming cleanup

2010-05-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
As Devil's advocate, let me suggest an alternate repo format naming strategy: simply a monotonically-increasing natural number, ordered by implementation date. Thus, --old-fashioned-inventory would be --format=1. Thus, --hashed would be --format=2. Thus, --darcs-2 would be --format=3. darcs init

Re: [darcs-users] darcs repository format naming cleanup

2010-05-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn zoo...@gmail.com writes: Oh by the way there is a ticket to backport darcs-2 to Hardy: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hardy-backports/+bug/410905 It is blocked on getting someone to testing the following tools which are already in hardy and which depend on darcs and which

Re: [darcs-users] Making use of _darcs/prefs/repos

2010-05-04 Thread Trent W. Buck
Max Battcher m...@worldmaker.net writes: I know that there are issues already in the tracker for this, but I had a quick noodle of an idea (tangentially borrowed from a git discussion) and wasn't sure which one might be best to attach to, or if I should just post as a new one. Here's the

[darcs-users] [patch203] Implemented all 13 possible symlink handling scenarios...

2010-04-01 Thread Trent W. Buck
Trent W. Buck trentb...@gmail.com added the comment: Thanks for extending these tests, Dmitry. Dmitry Astapov wrote: -darcs init --repo R S # Create our test repos. +mkdir -p R S# Create our test repos. +(cd R; darcs init) +(cd S; darcs init) Mea culpa

Re: [darcs-users] building a static darcs binary from HEAD

2010-03-28 Thread Trent W. Buck
Guillaume Hoffmann guilla...@gmail.com writes: I also have it, yet linking fails. I can reproduce this on Debian Sid, with a local build of hashed-storage 0.4.10 (everything else is stock Sid packages): # runghc Setup configure -fstatic [...] # runghc Setup build [...] [139

[darcs-users] [patch135] Accept issue1726: Files with _darcs prefix are always ...

2010-03-27 Thread Trent W. Buck
Trent W. Buck trentb...@gmail.com added the comment: Eric Kow wrote: Hi Trent, may I ping you on this? It seems to be blocking patch136 Sorry about the huge delay. I went to apply this to HEAD, and I got this: darcs: bug in get_extra commuting patches: First patch is: Wed Aug 12

[darcs-users] [patch202] Extend issue1646 with additional pathologies.

2010-03-26 Thread Trent W. Buck
New submission from Trent W. Buck trentb...@gmail.com: 1 patch for repository http://darcs.net: Fri Mar 26 22:12:40 EST 2010 Trent W. Buck trentb...@gmail.com * Extend issue1646 with additional pathologies. -- files: extend-issue1646-with-additional-pathologies_.dpatch, unnamed

Re: [darcs-users] [patch202] Extend issue1646 with additional pathologies.

2010-03-26 Thread Trent W. Buck
Trent W. Buck wrote: +ln -s /dev/null l That should've been /dev/zero, but right now it doesn't matter much, as AFAICT links to devices are treated as empty regular files. ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org

Re: [darcs-users] patch metadata, annotations, Ignore-this, tagging, etc

2010-03-24 Thread Trent W. Buck
Max Battcher m...@worldmaker.net writes: [...] and I'm sure it takes plenty of learned knowledge from RFC822's experience... Without seeing some evidence (i.e. a whitepaper), I would not want to make that assumption. Plenty of weenies NIH some new format or language precisely because they

Re: [darcs-users] patch metadata, annotations, Ignore-this, tagging, etc

2010-03-24 Thread Trent W. Buck
Jason Dagit dag...@gmail.com writes: [...] I've heard that sqlite has a much better track record in this regard. I don't know enough about hashed-storage to say whether it could be used to store the inventory/patch metadata. The sqlite people claim (claimed?) that it's too dangerous to use

Re: [darcs-users] patch metadata, annotations, Ignore-this, tagging, etc

2010-03-24 Thread Trent W. Buck
Max Battcher m...@worldmaker.net writes: For YAML there are predominantly two standard parsers available in most languages: a language-specific parser and a binding around libsyck, the C SAX-like parser. According to Wikipedia, - YAML 1.2 is the latest specification. - yaml-cpp (C++)

[darcs-users] [patch184] add cabal flag to control build of darcs... (and 2 more)

2010-03-23 Thread Trent W. Buck
Trent W. Buck trentb...@gmail.com added the comment: Eric Kow wrote: Can this go in, Trent? It works for me with GHC 6.12 and Cabal 1.8, but someone needs to test this with whatever other versions we claim to support. Also note I only tested the first patch in this bundle. https

Re: [darcs-users] default switches recommendations from Sprint 2010-03

2010-03-22 Thread Trent W. Buck
Eric Kow ko...@darcs.net writes: New defaults for Darcs 2.5 -- * pull/push/send --no-set-default - ... but add an online reminder whenever you interact with a non-default repo about how to set the default * send --edit-description * record --no-test *

Re: [darcs-users] patch metadata, annotations, Ignore-this, tagging, etc

2010-03-22 Thread Trent W. Buck
Max Battcher m...@worldmaker.net writes: [...] Of course, RFC822 is full of loopholes and surprisingly hard to parse in reality [...] I think I have a reasonable suggestion that is easier to parse than RFC822, but carries a similar effect: YAML formatted darcs comments. Can you support this

Re: [darcs-users] patch metadata, annotations, Ignore-this, tagging, etc

2010-03-22 Thread Trent W. Buck
Petr Rockai wrote: t...@cybersource.com.au (Trent W. Buck) writes: Max Battcher m...@worldmaker.net writes: [...] Of course, RFC822 is full of loopholes and surprisingly hard to parse in reality [...] I think I have a reasonable suggestion that is easier to parse than RFC822, but carries

[darcs-users] [patch184] add cabal flag to control build of darcs... (and 2 more)

2010-03-20 Thread Trent W. Buck
Trent W. Buck trentb...@gmail.com added the comment: This (should) resolve issue1508 -- testing now. -- nosy: +twb __ Darcs bug tracker b...@darcs.net http://bugs.darcs.net/patch184

Re: [darcs-users] GHC 6.8?

2010-03-17 Thread Trent W. Buck
Matthias Kilian k...@outback.escape.de writes: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 07:24:36PM +0200, Yitzchak Gale wrote: ...under what circumstances would Debian stable users need to *compile* (as opposed to fetching a binary) *new* versions of Darcs? For the new bit, I think it would be if we were ever

Re: [darcs-users] GHC 6.8?

2010-03-17 Thread Trent W. Buck
Eric Kow ko...@darcs.net writes: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 22:45:32 +, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote: After just going through a bit of pain with having to constrain dependent packages to old versions for GHC 6.8.3, I found myself wondering how long more we're going to support GHC 6.8 for. Do we

[darcs-users] [patch178] Resolve issue 1397: distinguish between no arguments...

2010-03-14 Thread Trent W. Buck
Trent W. Buck trentb...@gmail.com added the comment: Alexey Levan b...@darcs.net writes: New submission from Alexey Levan exle...@gmail.com: Mon Mar 8 06:41:07 EET 2010 exle...@gmail.com * Resolve issue 1397: distinguish between no arguments and no valid arguments cases in darcs

Re: [darcs-users] Version numbers and latex document editing

2010-03-13 Thread Trent W. Buck
Niall Murphy nmur...@gmail.com writes: What about doing it in the other direction, that is, giving the responsibility of inserting the revision numbers into your documents to the build process, instead of darcs ? The idea would be to use a Makefile that inserts in all your .tex documents, a

Re: [darcs-users] [patch164] Resolve issue182: hidden darcs status alias for darcs ...

2010-03-11 Thread Trent W. Buck
Jason Dagit da...@codersbase.com writes: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:22 AM, Eric Kow ko...@darcs.net wrote: That may be a bit too subtle. Maybe plain English will work. $ darcs status (This is an alias for darcs whatsnew -sl) M ./corpus-building/flatten-inputs.hs -1 +1 R ./harness/Makefile

[darcs-users] [patch174] Very slow darcs convert with 2.4 (fine with 2.3.0)

2010-03-09 Thread Trent W. Buck
Trent W. Buck trentb...@gmail.com added the comment: This looks like a bug report, not a patch. Bug reports should be sent to b...@darcs.net. -- nosy: +twb __ Darcs bug tracker b...@darcs.net http://bugs.darcs.net/patch174

Re: [darcs-users] ANN: musdex

2010-03-03 Thread Trent W. Buck
Max Battcher m...@worldmaker.net writes: http://blog.worldmaker.net/2010/mar/03/storing-documents-version-control-musdex/ [...] Basically, in darcs terms: its a prehook/posthook duo that pre-record extracts the contents of given zip archives (which may be .docx, or .odt files for instance)

Re: [darcs-users] static darcs 2.4

2010-02-28 Thread Trent W. Buck
Guillaume Hoffmann guilla...@gmail.com writes: False alert, I could build a static binary with cabal install -f-curl -fstatic. This is ultimately Kerberos' fault. See http://bugs.darcs.net/issue806. The workaround you found (above) is the only one I know works, though I suppose you could try

Re: [darcs-users] darcs version scheme (let's use odds/evens next time)

2010-02-20 Thread Trent W. Buck
Jason Dagit da...@codersbase.com writes: Current we have darcs 2.4 beta 3 which is the same source code as 2.3.99 (or something close to that). What I find confusing is that one version of darcs has several aliases. From my perspective, we will continue to have confusing version numbering

[darcs-users] [patch162] Print an intelligible error on darcs dist for this p...

2010-02-18 Thread Trent W. Buck
New submission from Trent W. Buck trentb...@gmail.com: 1 patch for repository http://darcs.net/releases/branch-2.4: Fri Feb 19 11:34:37 EST 2010 Trent W. Buck trentb...@gmail.com * Print an intelligible error on darcs dist for this project. Before: $ darcs dist autoconf: error

[darcs-users] [patch163] Remove intermediary files from cabal sdist tarball.

2010-02-18 Thread Trent W. Buck
New submission from Trent W. Buck trentb...@gmail.com: 1 patch for repository http://darcs.net/releases/branch-2.4: Fri Feb 19 11:39:43 EST 2010 Trent W. Buck trentb...@gmail.com * Remove intermediary files from cabal sdist tarball. AFAICT these files are generated during make html pdf

Re: [darcs-users] feature request: darcs changes --files to list the unique set of files touched by 'changes'

2010-02-15 Thread Trent W. Buck
Mark Stosberg m...@summersault.com writes: Here's my use case: I'm doing a peer review of a set patches that relate to a certain ticket number. I want to make sure that I review each changed file, so I would use this report as a checklist. In the past I've accomplished this by using darcs

Re: [darcs-users] Feedback on hunk splitting with Darcs 2.4 beta 1

2010-01-19 Thread Trent W. Buck
Isaac Dupree m...@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org writes: Petr Rockai wrote: Ganesh Sittampalam gan...@earth.li writes: (It's quite likely there's something I don't understand about darcs, since sometime I used 'darcs send' and it put some old draft patches of mine that weren't in the current

Re: [darcs-users] [patch141] Include the exact package versions darcs was compiled

2010-01-19 Thread Trent W. Buck
Petr Rockai m...@mornfall.net writes: Ganesh Sittampalam b...@darcs.net writes: This breaks the build for me with GHC 6.12.1, cabal-install 0.8.0, Cabal 1.8.0.2. Haven't investigated further yet: Setup.lhs:225:43: Not in scope: `packageDeps' cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:

Re: [darcs-users] performance regression in check/repair

2010-01-18 Thread Trent W. Buck
Petr Rockai wrote: t...@cybersource.com.au (Trent W. Buck) writes: This is a known problem. I can't remember where it is in the BTS, but we were talking about it on #darcs. Here's the minimal test: [...] I'm using hashed-storage-0.4.4 and Darcs 2.3.1 (+ 426 patches). Are you sure? I

Re: [darcs-users] performance regression in check/repair

2010-01-17 Thread Trent W. Buck
Jason Dagit da...@codersbase.com writes: bindisttest/a/b index: working: 5847c8b50a3191775d91cbaf8029fd1a75725517b0c70dde5bff759fc67ec1f8 This is a known problem. I can't remember where it is in the BTS, but we were

[darcs-users] [patch135] Accept issue1726: Files with _darcs prefix are always ...

2010-01-13 Thread Trent W. Buck
Trent W. Buck trentb...@gmail.com added the comment: Sorry about the review delay. Daniel Dickison wrote: Mon Jan 11 16:03:34 EST 2010 Daniel Dickison danieldicki...@gmail.com * Accept issue1726: Files with _darcs prefix are always boring +# Passing --boring should definitely succeed

Re: [darcs-users] [patch136] remove the hardcoded string _darcs in ... (and 1 more)

2010-01-13 Thread Trent W. Buck
Daniel Dickison b...@darcs.net writes: Unless I wrote it incorrectly, the regression test in patch135 already checks to make sure _darcs/foo gets skipped: +not darcs add -r _darcs +not darcs add -r --boring _darcs + +# ...as well as user-created files under _darcs (?) +touch _darcs/foo

Re: [darcs-users] [patch136] remove the hardcoded string _darcs in ... (and 1 more)

2010-01-13 Thread Trent W. Buck
Petr Ročkai b...@darcs.net writes: Daniel Dickison b...@darcs.net writes: If you wouldn't mind a possibly naïve question, why is it necessary to special case the _darcs directory when the default boring file already contains the following line? (^|/)_darcs($|/) I assume this is because the

Re: [darcs-users] [patch136] remove the hardcoded string _darcs in ... (and 1 more)

2010-01-13 Thread Trent W. Buck
Petr Ročkai b...@darcs.net writes: If someone managed to create patches referring to files under _darcs (by removing that _darcs entry from their boring file), I can only assume that BAD THINGS would happen. Out of curiosity, I simulated such an attack: $ with-temp-dir with-temp-dir:

Re: [darcs-users] [patch127] Re: patches to Darcs.Commands.ShowFiles, and repository internals

2010-01-13 Thread Trent W. Buck
Thomas Hartman b...@darcs.net writes: Thomas Hartman thomashartm...@googlemail.com added the comment: What and where are the CLONE_FS (...) flags ? ...darcs.net $ find -type d -name _darcs -prune -o -name *.hs -print | xargs -i grep CLONE {} # (no output) FYI, with GNU grep this is

[darcs-users] [patch135] Accept issue1726: Files with _darcs prefix are always ...

2010-01-13 Thread Trent W. Buck
Trent W. Buck trentb...@gmail.com added the comment: Daniel Dickison wrote: On Jan 13, 2010, at 9:59 PM, Trent W. Buck wrote: I'm concerned that using _darcsfoo both times might trip unrelated bugs in pending. I suggest using _darcsbar the second time, and simply doing a normal record

Re: [darcs-users] [patch72] resolve issue1624 break global cache upinto subdirectories

2010-01-11 Thread Trent W. Buck
Sittampalam, Ganesh ganesh.sittampa...@credit-suisse.com writes: Trent W. Buck wrote: Reinier Lamers tux_roc...@reinier.de writes: Op woensdag 23 december 2009 12:00 schreef je: Have you already applied this? I may have found a bug on it. I considered applying it tonight, but it raised

Re: [darcs-users] [patch72] resolve issue1624 break global cache up into subdirectories

2010-01-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Reinier Lamers tux_roc...@reinier.de writes: Op woensdag 23 december 2009 12:00 schreef je: Have you already applied this? I may have found a bug on it. I considered applying it tonight, but it raised some more questions on IRC: [21:26] Heffalump it effectively throws away the existing

Re: [darcs-users] [patch72] resolve issue1624 break global cache up into subdirectories

2010-01-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Isaac Dupree m...@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org writes: Trent W. Buck wrote: Reinier Lamers tux_roc...@reinier.de writes: Op woensdag 23 december 2009 12:00 schreef je: Have you already applied this? I may have found a bug on it. I considered applying it tonight, but it raised some more

Re: [darcs-users] darcs 2.4 beta 1 release

2010-01-07 Thread Trent W. Buck
Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com writes: I consider it show-stopping in the sense that I keep having people on #gentoo-haskell asking me why they can't compile darcs 2.3.1 because that error comes up, and I have to explain to either disable documentation or downgrade Cabal (if

Re: [darcs-users] some darcs comments from Johan Tibell

2010-01-06 Thread Trent W. Buck
Alberto Bertogli albert...@blitiri.com.ar writes: But the main reason was that with git, I create a branch in 0.007s, using one command. With darcs, I have to cd out of the repository, do a get, and then cd back (either to the original or to the new one). FWIW, what I usually type is darcs

Re: [darcs-users] Darcs 2.4 - performance testing (stage 0)

2010-01-06 Thread Trent W. Buck
Petr Rockai m...@mornfall.net writes: Nathan Gray kolib...@graystudios.org writes: How exactly do you make one of the repo tarballs? I would like darcs get /path/to/repo _tmp cd _tmp tar cvzf ../repo.tgz . Wouldn't it be more efficient[0] to only archive _darcs, and do a darcs revert --all

Re: [darcs-users] high-level UTF-8 feedback

2010-01-04 Thread Trent W. Buck
Reinier Lamers tux_roc...@reinier.de writes: * Investigate how to handle the ICU dependency on Windows; if we have to, just bundle the ICU source. From the Debian integrator to the release manager: It will annoy me if the source tarball for 2.4 contains icu, because I'll have to either

Re: [darcs-users] some darcs comments from Johan Tibell

2010-01-03 Thread Trent W. Buck
Johan Tibell johan.tib...@gmail.com writes: $ time ssh fs darcs get --lazy $PWD $PWD+issue1234 [...] $ du -sh $PWD $PWD+issue1234 52M /home/twb/Desktop/Darcs/darcs 4.7M/home/twb/Desktop/Darcs/darcs+issue1234 Is it best practice to create your topic branches

Re: [darcs-users] some darcs comments from Johan Tibell

2010-01-03 Thread Trent W. Buck
Eric Kow ko...@darcs.net writes: But for larger projects, I tend to have a single directory just for that project darcs-hacking/unstable darcs-hacking/kowey darcs-hacking/review-291 (so cd darcs-hacking; darcs get --lazy http://darcs.net review-291) It would probably be more efficient

Re: [darcs-users] some darcs comments from Johan Tibell

2010-01-03 Thread Trent W. Buck
Simon Marlow marlo...@gmail.com writes: On 28/12/09 18:29, Eric Kow wrote: I recommend just trying this to see how it feels. So I think what makes --lazy work well in practice is that in practice, one does not actually consult the patches that are far back in history very often. If they

Re: [darcs-users] some darcs comments from Johan Tibell

2010-01-03 Thread Trent W. Buck
Johan Tibell johan.tib...@gmail.com writes: My main worry (personally) is losing the simplicity of Darcs, which I think is a quality that we should hang to very tenaciously. Simplicity is a good principle, and I think it's one worth sticking too. However, sometimes you need to do complicated

Re: [darcs-users] patches to Darcs.Commands.ShowFiles, and repository internals that would be useful to patch-tag. (baby steps towards darcs API, and factoring out getCurrentDirectory dependence)

2010-01-03 Thread Trent W. Buck
Thomas Hartman thomashartm...@googlemail.com writes: In general, even without bringing the need for an API in, it seems like currentDirectory agnosticism is a better way to go. +1. ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net

Re: [darcs-users] [patch124] resolve issue1334: whitespace cleanup.

2009-12-30 Thread Trent W. Buck
Petr Rockai wrote: From looking at the patch, the PNG logos seem to have changed for whatever reason. Have you maybe included too many files in the automated whitespace cleanup process? Oops, that's undoubtedly a screw-up. The last bundle only affected .lhs and .hs files, but this time I

Re: [darcs-users] my work in progress

2009-12-27 Thread Trent W. Buck
Reinier Lamers tux_roc...@reinier.de writes: - interactive patch editing I'm not sure we ever really finished the design of the user interface. We probably should before 2.4... We tried discussing this a number of times. I haven't tried this feature out yet. It's really something we should

[darcs-users] Noise: Patch name as received from getLog:

2009-12-27 Thread Trent W. Buck
What are these getLog messages? $ darcs --version 2.3.1 (+ 416 patches) $ find [^_]*/ -depth -type d -exec \ darcs record --no-test -am Whitespace cleanup in {}. {} \; [...] Recording changes in src/Darcs/Witnesses: Patch name as received from getLog:

Re: [darcs-users] Darcs 2.4 - performance testing (stage 0)

2009-12-25 Thread Trent W. Buck
Jason Dagit da...@codersbase.com writes: Unfortunately, my computer locked up during my first pass through the benchmarks so I don't have the exact commands handy. The above is from and I think it should be close. It might be worth playing with the ulimit shell builtin, to restrict e.g. the

Re: [darcs-users] some darcs comments from Johan Tibell

2009-12-25 Thread Trent W. Buck
Eric Kow ko...@darcs.net writes: he [wants] make-me-a-branch command [to be] near instantaneousness. Doing the operation on the fileserver (instead of over NFS), branching is fast enough for me. With the Darcs repository: $ time ssh fs darcs get --lazy $PWD $PWD+issue1234 Copying

Re: [darcs-users] some darcs comments from Johan Tibell

2009-12-25 Thread Trent W. Buck
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: * Incrementally building up the next commit using a staging area. For haskell libraries, --builddir /var/tmp/staging ? That's not what he means. He's talking about using the index, eg. $ gnuclient a.h a.c # change prototype and implementation of foo $ git

Re: [darcs-users] it would be useful for patch-tag to turn off hard linking for darcs storage. can anyone suggest how to do that?

2009-12-18 Thread Trent W. Buck
Thomas Hartman thomashartm...@googlemail.com writes: it would be useful for patch-tag to turn off hard linking for darcs storage (in pristine.hashed, patches, and so on). can anyone suggest the most straightforward way to do that? Why would it be useful? A straightforward way would be to

Re: [darcs-users] [patch111] Contribute vc-darcs.el for Emacs VC support.

2009-12-15 Thread Trent W. Buck
Marnix Klooster marnix.kloos...@gmail.com writes: On 11-12-09 03:44, Trent W. Buck wrote: Dave Love b...@darcs.net writes: The Emacs maintainers rejected the Darcs support (despite supporting the other major free VCSs) :-(. I guess you mean that the GNU Emacs maintainers are unwilling

Re: [darcs-users] A comparison of Darcs and Git

2009-12-15 Thread Trent W. Buck
Marc Weber marco-owe...@gmx.de writes: - each git commit has a uniq name: its hash. Does darcs use hashes as well now? It has had hashes since 2.0.0. Can I say darcs unpull $HASH ? Or darcs pull $HASH $REMOTE_REPO ? Yes, using --match. See darcs help patterns. In darcs you can

Re: [darcs-users] A comparison of Darcs and Git

2009-12-15 Thread Trent W. Buck
Marc Weber marco-owe...@gmx.de writes: Yes, I know about the --hashed option etc. If --hashed is still meaningful for you, consider converting your project to the darcs-2 format, which should be better than the iterim hashed format. But when running darcs changes -v | less I can't see them.

Re: [darcs-users] [patch111] Contribute vc-darcs.el for Emacs VC support.

2009-12-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
dons Grumpy Old Man hat Dave Love b...@darcs.net writes: Wed Dec 9 23:22:06 GMT 2009 Dave Love f...@gnu.org * Contribute vc-darcs.el for Emacs VC support. As Jason noted, this would be appropriate for contrib/. The Emacs maintainers rejected the Darcs support (despite supporting

[darcs-users] [patch110] Use relative path for logfile.

2009-12-09 Thread Trent W. Buck
Trent W. Buck trentb...@gmail.com added the comment: Eric Kow wrote: On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 05:34:54 +, Trent W. Buck wrote: Creating patch to http://darcs.net/darcs-bugtracker;... Is it a really good idea to cc patches for non darcs-specific stuff to the tracker? I don't know

[darcs-users] [patch110] Use relative path for logfile.

2009-12-08 Thread Trent W. Buck
New submission from Trent W. Buck trentb...@gmail.com: Creating patch to http://darcs.net/darcs-bugtracker;... Wed Dec 9 16:29:32 EST 2009 Trent W. Buck trentb...@gmail.com * Use relative path for logfile. This shouldn't affect the production instance, but will make it easier

Re: [darcs-users] [patch34] Accept issue1325: hunk patches interfere with pending ...

2009-12-06 Thread Trent W. Buck
Ganesh Sittampalam b...@darcs.net writes: This seems to already have been applied. That was me. I was expecting darcswatch to close the patch for me; I guess patch34 predates that darcswatch-fu. ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net

[darcs-users] [patch101] Resolve issue1594: define PREPROCHTML in makefile

2009-12-06 Thread Trent W. Buck
Trent W. Buck trentb...@gmail.com added the comment: Ganesh Sittampalam wrote: This looks sane to me - Trent, could you just confirm? Sorry; I meant to look at this when it first came in. The old code used to call src/preproc with/without --html. That argument got lost when Petr moved

Re: [darcs-users] [patch94] resolve issue1392: use parsec to parse .authorspelling

2009-12-06 Thread Trent W. Buck
Ganesh Sittampalam b...@darcs.net writes: I guess you've tested it on at least the darcs repo's .authorspellings file - any others? If someone collects pathological .authorspellings examples, I suggest turning them into a tests/foo.sh script. ___

Re: [darcs-users] best place to publish some darcs tips?

2009-12-06 Thread Trent W. Buck
[documentation manager hat on] Mark Stosberg m...@summersault.com writes: I've accumulated several darcs tips I'd like to share, but I'm not sure where the best place to put them is. The manual? The wiki? A series of blog posts? First: anywhere is better than nowhere. Even if I don't like

Re: [darcs-users] cabal-install bootstrapping fails on Ubuntu 9.10 / Karmic Koala

2009-12-06 Thread Trent W. Buck
Mark Stosberg m...@summersault.com writes: I'm having trouble installing cabal-install 0.6.2 on a new laptop today, on Karmic Koala. cabal-install is available in Lucid[0]. You might be able to simply backport that version, since the ghc6 versions in karmic and lucid are identical. The

Re: [darcs-users] New argument for symlink support

2009-12-03 Thread Trent W. Buck
Henrik Hjelte hen...@evahjelte.com writes: On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 3:54 AM, Trent W. Buck t...@cybersource.com.au wrote: Henrik Hjelte hen...@evahjelte.com writes: The absence of symlink-support makes it impossible to migrate a lot of repositories to darcs from other revision control systems

Re: [darcs-users] Help with the wiki

2009-12-03 Thread Trent W. Buck
Jason Dagit da...@codersbase.com writes: Okay, maybe general push permission shouldn't be allowed, but I was hoping I'm trusted enough in the darcs community that I could be given permissions. I have no problem with giving Jason push access to the wiki repo.

Re: [darcs-users] New argument for symlink support

2009-12-02 Thread Trent W. Buck
Henrik Hjelte hen...@evahjelte.com writes: The absence of symlink-support makes it impossible to migrate a lot of repositories to darcs from other revision control systems. Adding a script that manages symlinks (like update-symlinks.sh) script is not a solution for that. Why isn't it a

Re: [darcs-users] Darcswatch is spam on -users

2009-11-23 Thread Trent W. Buck
Joachim Breitner m...@joachim-breitner.de writes: the problem is that roundup does not distinguish between hand-written comments and automated messages. You want the former on -users (and that is why users is subscribed to roundup), but not the latter. If someone wants to implement the

Re: [darcs-users] [patch96] bump array, containers, unix constraints in .cabal (gh...

2009-11-22 Thread Trent W. Buck
Sergei Trofimovich b...@darcs.net writes: Sun Nov 22 00:50:06 EET 2009 Sergei Trofimovich sly...@inbox.ru * bump array, containers, unix constraints in .cabal (ghc-6.12rc1) Pathch does not fully fix -HEAD, but it's enought to make -stable 2.3.1 work on 6.12rc1. Worth hitting stable.

Re: [darcs-users] Darcswatch is spam on -users

2009-11-22 Thread Trent W. Buck
Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.org writes: Darcswatch should be retargeted to -devel. +1. I thought it'd be useful to avoid accidentally re-reviewing bundles, but it's far more likely that I'll ignore a given bundle than re-review it. In the former case, the darcswatch post means a second

[darcs-users] Building a snapshot source tarball

2009-11-22 Thread Trent W. Buck
I wanted to test my Debianization of Darcs against the latest checkout. This requires an upstream source tarball (like you see on hackage). I couldn't work out how to make the tarball. I tried: $ darcs dist autoconf: error: no input file Dist aborted due to predist failure $

Re: [darcs-users] Building a snapshot source tarball

2009-11-22 Thread Trent W. Buck
Jason Dagit da...@codersbase.com writes: On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Trent W. Buck t...@cybersource.com.auwrote: I wanted to test my Debianization of Darcs against the latest checkout. This requires an upstream source tarball (like you see on hackage). I couldn't work out how to make

Re: [darcs-users] darcs patch blocked on new utf8-string, haskeline releases

2009-11-20 Thread Trent W. Buck
Reinier Lamers tux_roc...@reinier.de writes: * We depend on a new version of haskeline, that depends on a new version of utf8-string * We specify a utf8-string dependency in darcs.cabal, only to make sure the version haskeline uses is recent enough. The second option feels dirty,

Re: [darcs-users] [patch43] Add --dont-ignore-times counterpart to -... (and 9 more)

2009-11-18 Thread Trent W. Buck
Ganesh Sittampalam wrote: On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Trent W. Buck wrote: Florent Becker florent.bec...@ens-lyon.org writes: The object of these patches is to add a --dont-frobnicate option for each --frobnicate option. That way, you can put command frobnicate in your prefs file, and still use

Re: [darcs-users] new patch status?

2009-11-17 Thread Trent W. Buck
Ganesh Sittampalam gan...@earth.li writes: On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Trent W. Buck wrote: Ganesh Sittampalam gan...@earth.li writes: Generally when reviewing patches, I read them directly, perhaps have a look at the source they apply to, and then decide that they're fine so long as the tests

Re: [darcs-users] new patch status?

2009-11-17 Thread Trent W. Buck
Sittampalam, Ganesh ganesh.sittampa...@credit-suisse.com writes: Trent W. Buck wrote: Ganesh Sittampalam gan...@earth.li writes: On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Trent W. Buck wrote: [...] patches that don't apply cleanly are automatically set to needs-amend? I think the difficulty here is uniquely

Re: [darcs-users] new patch status?

2009-11-16 Thread Trent W. Buck
Ganesh Sittampalam gan...@earth.li writes: Generally when reviewing patches, I read them directly, perhaps have a look at the source they apply to, and then decide that they're fine so long as the tests pass. Actually keeping track of them between that point and running the tests and pushing

Re: [darcs-users] new patch status?

2009-11-16 Thread Trent W. Buck
Jason Dagit wrote: I suppose there are security issues to consider. Certainly DOSing would be trivial in the naïve implementation :-) ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

Re: [darcs-users] [patch43] Add --dont-ignore-times counterpart to -... (and 9 more)

2009-11-15 Thread Trent W. Buck
Florent Becker florent.bec...@ens-lyon.org writes: Not in every case. It is the case when using darcs diff, but not when using darcs whatsnew, and also annotate as a patch viewer. But maybe it could be always on when using these commands? Oops, I had forgotten about whatsnew --unified. *I*

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