Darcs News #106

News and discussions

1. Darcs is participating once again to the Google Summer of Code, through the umbrella organization Haskell.org. Deadline for student application is Friday 21st:
   
   • http://darcs.net/GSoC
   • https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2014/help_page
2. It is now possible to donate stock to darcs through the Software Freedom Conservancy organization. Donations by Paypal, Flattr, checks and wire transfer are still possible:
   
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2013-December/026977.html
   • http://darcs.net/Donations
3. Dan Licata wrote a presentation about Darcs as a higher inductive type:
   
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2014-January/026985.html
4. Darcs now directly provides import and export commands with Git. This code was adapted from Petr Rockai's darcs-fastconvert, with some changes by Owen Stephen from his Summer of Code project "darcs-bridge":
   
   • http://hub.darcs.net/darcs/darcs-screened/patch/20140125154537-5ef8f

Issues resolved (6)

issue642 Jose Luis Neder

• Automatic detection of file renames
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue642

issue2209 Jose Luis Neder

• Automatically detect replace
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2209

issue2319 Guillaume Hoffmann

• make changes non-interactive if fed to a pipe
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2319

issue2332 Guillaume Hoffmann

• ignore case of characters in prompt
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2332

issue2335 Guillaume Hoffmann

• one liner when adding tracked files if not verbose
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2335

issue2348 Ryan

• switch to cabal's test framework
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2348

Patches applied (34)

See darcs wiki entry for details.