darcs weekly news #71

News and discussions

1. Darcs 2.5 beta 4 was released:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-August/024998.html

2. Ganesh put online his branch of darcs containing the ``rebase'' command for all to try. Simon Marlow gave feedback on this feature:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-August/024924.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-August/024955.html

3. Joachim Breiner uploaded ipatch on hackage:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-August/024983.html

Issues resolved in the last week (3)

issue1875 Eric Kow

• avoid accidentally setting default.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1875

issue1898 Eric Kow

• notify user when they can use set-default.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1898

issue1913 Ganesh Sittampalam

• sort changes in treeDiff
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1913

Patches applied in the last week (31)

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darcs weekly news #70

News and discussions

1. Darcs 2.5 beta 3 was released:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-August/024897.html

2. The next Darcs Hacking Sprint will take place at Orleans, France, the 15-17 of October:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-August/024886.html
   • http://wiki.darcs.net/Sprints/2010-10

3. Version 0.1.9 of darcs-benchmark was released, including bugfixes and experimental support for comparison with git and mercurial:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-August/024785.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-August/024749.html
   • http://wiki.darcs.net/Benchmarks/Mornfall?revision=20100807120334-328e3-64802e95bafde8a279faafa7baba24b0558ebb0a.gz

4. Adolfo Builes blogged about the end of his summer of code project. A summary of his project is available on the wiki:

   • http://abuiles.blogspot.com/2010/08/gsoc-week-11.html
   • http://abuiles.blogspot.com/2010/08/gsoc-week-12.html
   • http://wiki.darcs.net/GSoC/2010-Cache

Issues resolved in the last week (7)

issue1290 Eric Kow

• support diff --index.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1290

issue1530 Eric Kow

• allow user to pick from multiple email address.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1530

issue1599 Adolfo Builes

• 1599: automatically expire unused caches
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1599

issue1873 Petr Rockai

• give nicer error when apply fails due to missing patches.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1873

issue1896 Ganesh Sittampalam

• enable witnesses for library
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1896

issue1908 Petr Rockai

• try to create a global cache before checking its availability.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1908

issue1909 Petr Rockai

• generate correct context in unpull -O.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1909

Patches applied in the last week (49)

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darcs weekly news #69

News and discussions

1. darcs 2.5 beta 2 was released. Give it a try!

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-July/024642.html

2. Reinier explained why beta 3 will have to wait a little:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-August/024681.html

3. Joachim "nomeata" Breitner released a ipatch, a tool based on darcs' hunk editing feature:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-August/024699.html
   • https://www.joachim-breitner.de/blog/archives/425-ipatch,-the-interactive-patch-editor.html

4. Two more blog posts from our Summer of Code students Adolfo and Alexey:

   • http://abuiles.blogspot.com/2010/07/gsoc-week-9.html
   • http://darcs-gsoc2010.blogspot.com/2010/08/gsoc-2010-progress-report-2.html

Issues resolved in the last week (2)

issue1888 Petr Rockai

• fix changes --context.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1888

issue1892 Petr Rockai

• Improve safety of makeBundle* and fix a couple of related bugs.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1892

Patches applied in the last week (38)

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darcs weekly news #68

News and discussions

1. ``darcs stash'' was discussed, with different possible implementations and UI proposed, and some example workflows evoked:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-July/024499.html

2. Reinier listed the release blockers for darcs 2.5:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-July/024603.html

Issues resolved in the last week (4)

issue1716 Reinier Lamers

• allow mail header lines of all whitespace in test
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1716

issue1883 Eric Kow

• rename --patch-name option to --name.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1883

issue1887 Petr Rockai

• add a missing newline to --list-options output.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1887

issue1893 Ganesh Sittampalam

• move fields of conditional builds within scope of condition
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1893

Patches applied in the last week (42)

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darcs weekly news #67

News and discussions

1. Reinier announced the first beta of Darcs 2.5:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-July/024459.html

2. The next darcs sprint will happen in October in Orleans, France:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-July/024429.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-July/024430.html

Issues resolved in the last week (6)

issue1288 Ganesh Sittampalam

• the main darcs code now compiles and runs with witnesses
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1288

issue1726 David Markvica

• Files with _darcs prefix are always boring
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1726

issue1825 Petr Rockai

• do not omit important prims in unrecordedChanges w/ files.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1825

issue1845 Petr Rockai

• fix "darcs record f" for f a removed, version-tracked file.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1845

issue1865 Petr Rockai

• make scanBundle produce a well-formed PatchSet.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1865

issue1871 Petr Rockai

• announceFiles should not give empty list for ".".
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1871

Patches applied in the last week (83)

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darcs weekly news #66

News and discussions

1. Reinier announced the release schedule of Darcs 2.5 (soft freeze July 8th, release August 7th):

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-June/024284.html

2. Reiner also issued a call for volunteers for fixing unassigned bugs that should be fixed for the next release:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-June/024407.html

3. Eric explained how to make the patch reviewing process more efficient:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-June/024370.html

4. And the Sumer of Code blog posts of the last two weeks:

   • http://darcs-gsoc2010.blogspot.com/2010/06/gsoc-2010-progress-report-1.html
   • http://abuiles.blogspot.com/2010/06/gsoc-report-week-4.html
   • http://abuiles.blogspot.com/2010/06/gsoc-report-week-5.html

Issues resolved in the last week (7)

issue1176 Adolfo Builes

• 1176: caches interfere with --remote-repo flag
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1176

issue1277 Eric Kow

• percolate repository format errors correctly.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1277

issue1389 Reinier Lamers

• Change predist pref to point people to use 'cabal sdist'
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1389

issue1713 Eric Kow

• shorter interactive prompts.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1713

issue1857 Petr Rockai

• Use and update pristine root pointer upon conversion.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1857

issue1877 Florent Becker

• make pull --dry-run --xml terse
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1877

issue1879 Eric Kow

• notice unexpected commute failure on merge.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1879

Patches applied in the last week (53)

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darcs weekly news #65

News and discussions

1. Lele Gaifax released a new version of the trac+darcs plugin:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-June/024281.html
   • http://progetti.arstecnica.it/trac+darcs/

2. We are still looking for a release manager for the release of darcs 2.5. Eric summarized the discussions concerning recruitment and the responsibilities and challenges related to this job:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-June/024268.html

3. Roadmap: rebase won't be in 2.5, annotate will be improved:

   • http://irclog.perlgeek.de/darcs/2010-06-08#i_2415755
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-June/024227.html

Issues resolved in the last week (2)

issue1210 Adolfo Builes

• global cache gets recorded in _darcs/prefs/sources
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1210

issue1874 Eric Kow

• recognise network tests on cabal test command line.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1874

Patches applied in the last week (21)

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