darcs weekly news #73

News and discussions

1. Ganesh proposed a simple change in conflict marking:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-September/025351.html

2. The commiters of the Darcs team now use an additional public branch for sharing unreviewed or lightly reviewed work in progress:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-September/025312.html

Issues resolved in the last week (0)

Patches applied in the last week (4)

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darcs weekly news #72

News and discussions

1. Darcs 2.5 beta 5 was released:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-September/025215.html

2. Eric put online a series of videos (~1h) explaining the sate of darcs in 2010 (adapted from his recent talk in AngloHaskell 2010):

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-September/025266.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-September/025270.html

3. Petr released darcs-fastconvert, a tool that helps converting darcs and git repositories in both directions:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-September/025251.html

4. Jason asked for feedback about his proposition for darcs to uniquely identify the state of a repository by a hash:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-September/025198.html

5. Petr kicked off his ``adventure'' branch, a long-lived public branch of darcs he will use to make disruptive changes in the codebase:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-August/025048.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-August/025105.html

6. Ganesh proposed to used a ``submitted'' public branch to help developers share they work and deal with the reviewing process more smoothly:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-September/025271.html

Issues resolved in the last 3 weeks (2)

issue1884 Alexey Levan

• correct report about getting lazy repository
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1884

issue1942 Petr Rockai

• Fix an IO interleaving bug in old-fashioned readRepo.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1942

Patches applied in the last 3 weeks (140)

See darcs wiki entry for details.