darcs weekly news #59

News and discussions

1. Lennart Kolmodin announced that darcs 2.4 was available in Gentoo Linux:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-March/023513.html

2. Mark Stosberg talked about darcs handling large repositories, then spawning a discussion on git vs darcs from the UI point of view:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-March/023526.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-March/023539.html

3. If you haven't already read it on this blog, you can have a look at Eric's report from the last darcs hacking sprint:

   • http://blog.darcs.net/2010/03/darcs-hacking-sprint-4-report.html

Issues resolved in the last week (4)

issue1208 dixiecko@gmail.com

• wish: darcs trackdown --bisect
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1208

issue1427 Guillaume Hoffmann

• accept gzipped patch bundles in darcs apply
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1427

issue1739 Reinier Lamers

• make ColorPrinter handle characters > 255
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1739

issue1756 Petr Rockai

• new h-s handles file removals correctly in Index.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1756

issue1765 Reinier Lamers

• refuse to remove non-tracked directories recursively
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1765

Patches applied in the last week (29)

See darcs wiki entry for details.