Darcs News #107

News and discussions

1. Darcs has received two grants from the Google Summer of Code program, as part of the umbrella organization Haskell.org. Alejandro Gadea will work on history reordering:
   
   • http://alegdarcs.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/google-summer-of-code-2014-darcs.html
2. Marcio Diaz will work on the cache system:
   
   • http://marcioodiaz.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/gsoc-project-accepted.html
   • http://marcioodiaz.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/gsoc-progress-report-1-complete.html
3. Repository cloning to remote ssh hosts has been present for years as darcs put. This feature has now a more efficient implementation:
   
   • http://hub.darcs.net/darcs/darcs-reviewed/patch/20140425060647-5ef8f

Issues resolved (11)

issue851 Dan Frumin

• interactive mode for whatsnew
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue851

issue1066 Guillaume Hoffmann

• clone to ssh URL by locally cloning then copying by scp
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1066

issue1268 Guillaume Hoffmann

• enable to write darcs init x
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1268

issue1416 Ale Gadea

• put log files in tempdir instead of in working dir.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1416

issue1987 Marcio Diaz

• Garbage collection for inventories and patches.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1987

issue2263 Ale Gadea

• Option --set-scripts-executable is not properly documented
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2263

issue2345 Dan Frumin

• solution using cabal's checkForeignDeps
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2345

issue2357 Dan Frumin

• switching to regex-compat-tdfa for unicode support
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2357

issue2365 Guillaume Hoffmann

• correctly copy pristine in no-working-dir clones
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2365

issue2367 Guillaume Hoffmann

• rename amend-record to amend, make --unrecord more visible
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2367

issue2379 Guillaume Hoffmann

• only use packs to copy pristine when up-to-date
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2379

Patches applied (41)

See darcs wiki entry for details.