darcs weekly news #44

News and discussions

1. Judah Jacobson put online a document formalizing patch theory using inverse semigroups:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-October/021886.html
   • http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jjacobson/patch-theory/

2. Jason Dagit announced that the third darcs hacking sprint will also involve a group of hackers in Portland, in parallel with the Vienna meeting:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-October/021916.html

Issues resolved in the last week (2)

issue1563 Eric Kow

• official thank-you page.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1563

issue1652 Eric Kow

• suggest cabal update before cabal install.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1652

Patches applied in the last week (21)

See darcs wiki entry for details.

darcs weekly news #43

News and discussions

1. Work on hashed-storage, implemented by Petr and reviewed by Ganesh, was finally merged into the main darcs repository. Eric provided explanations for people who want a faster darcs now:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-October/021826.html

2. Ganesh sent a patch providing a "no conflicting patch" filter to darcs pull, discussion ensued:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-September/021642.html

3. Jason investigated on performance of the current implementation of regular expression handling:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-October/021721.html

4. Eric talked about Summer of Code 2010 and how to raise our chances to have someone paid to work on darcs again next summer:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-October/021761.html

Issues resolved in the last week (5)

issue1447 mf-hcafe-15c311f0c

• different online help for send/apply --cc
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1447

issue1488 Petr Rockai

• darcs-hs does not suffer from this.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1488

issue1583 Eric Kow

• on darcs get, suggest upgrading source repo to hashed.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1583

issue1618 Kamil Dworakowski

• 1618: preserve log on amend failure
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1618

issue1620 Kamil Dworakowski

• amend lies about living logfile
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1620

Patches applied in the last week (108)

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