darcs weekly news #46

News and discussions

1. The third darcs hacking sprint happened last weekend in Vienna and Portland! An extensive report will be posted here soon. As a teaser of all the work done, here is a draft implementation of trackdown --bisect written in Vienna by Matthias Fischmann:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-November/022251.html
   • http://wiki.darcs.net/Sprints/2009-11

2. Eric proposed to add Florent Becker to the review team:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-November/022270.html

3. Still working on making patch metadata in UTF8 happen, Reinier is dealing with haskell package version issues for the 2.4 release:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-November/022283.html

Issues resolved in the last week (6)

issue540 quiark@centrum.cz

• darcs remove --recursive
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue540

issue1122 David Markvica

• get --complete should not offer to create a lazy repository
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1122

issue1224 caitt@users.sourceforge.net

• refuse to convert a repo that's already in darcs-2 format.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1224

issue1636 Kamil Dworakowski

• match hunk
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1636

issue1643 Christian Berrer

• optimize --upgrade should do optimize
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1643

issue1659 Petr Rockai

• Make restrictBoring take recorded state into account.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1659

Patches applied in the last week (34)

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