darcs 2.12.0 release

The Darcs team is pleased to announce the release of Darcs 2.12.0.

Downloading

One way of installing Darcs 2.12.0 is with stack:

$ stack install darcs-2.12.0

Or first install the Haskell Platform (http://www.haskell.org/platform)
and install Darcs with cabal-install:

$ cabal update
$ cabal install darcs-2.12.0

You can also download the tarball from
http://darcs.net/releases/darcs-2.12.0.tar.gz and build it by hand.

The 2.12 branch is also available as a darcs repository from
http://darcs.net/releases/branch-2.12

What's new

Patch dependency graph export

The new command `darcs show dependencies`, enables to export the dependency graph of a repository (up to the latest tag, by default) as a Graphviz file:

whatsnew output and third-party VC frontend support

The flag `whatsnew --machine-readable` is a simplified version of `whatsnew -s` for easier parsability by third-party tools. Darcs 2.12 adds conflict markers to the output of whatnew when summarized (ie, when used with the `-s` or `--machine-readable` flags or via the `darcs status` alias). Thanks to this, Darcs support was reintroduced in meld 3.15.2 .

improvements for Git repository imports

File moves are converted to file moves primitives, instead of being file deletes and add as before. This enables to have smaller Darcs respositories with a more understandable history. This change adds to other improvements and fixes that make Git import more practical.

repository Weak Hashes

The command `darcs show repo` now shows a hash that is the XOR
of all hashes of the patches metadata of the repository. Being a XOR,
it does not depend on the patches' ordering. Also it is quite fast to
calculate. This Weak Hash can be useful to quickly check whether two
repositories of a single proyect have the same patches.