Darcs News #112

News and discussions

1. After 7 years of being the maintainer/Benevolent Dictator of Darcs, Eric Kow stepped down and offered me (Guillaume Hoffmann) to take over, which I accepted:
   
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2015-October/027144.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2015-October/027145.html
2. The release process of Darcs 2.12 will start when GHC 8 is released:
   
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2016-March/027185.html
3. We had two new minor releases of Darcs 2.10, and in spite of being minor, they contain a few interesting changes and optimizations:
   
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2015-November/027151.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2016-January/027182.html
4. In a span of 4 months we had two sprints, one in Paris in September and another another in Seville in January, check out the reports:
   
   • http://blog.darcs.net/2015/09/darcs-hacking-sprint-9-report.html
   • http://blog.darcs.net/2016/01/darcs-hacking-sprint-10-report.html
5. Finally, Pierre-Étienne Meunier announced a Pijul sprint in may in Finland. Darcs hackers are welcome!
   
   • http://pijul.org/2016/04/02/sprint.htm

Issues resolved (7)

issue2269 Eric Kow

• push hijack test to suspend time
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2269

issue2276 Eric Kow

• Keep track of patch hijack decisions
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2276

issue2400 Ben Franksen

• use async package to keep track of unpack threads
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2400

issue2459 Ben Franksen

• fall back to writing the file if createLink fails
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2459

issue2479 Ben Franksen

• root dir most not be among the sources of a move
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2479

issue2481 Ganesh Sittampalam

• expose API for 'darcs diff' command
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2481

issue2489 Guillaume Hoffmann

• dequote filepaths while importing from git
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2489

Patches applied (176)

2016-03-26 Sergei Trofimovich

• allow zip-archive-0.3

2016-03-22 Guillaume Hoffmann

• remove failing-issue1609 from testsuite as property we don't want

2016-03-06 Ben Franksen

• move command: fixed punctuation of error messages and added a comment
• use bug from impossible.h instead of error
• cleanup in Darcs.Patch.Merge: use case instead of fromJust (do return ...)

2016-02-12 Ganesh Sittampalam

• Get rid of the need for DummyPatch in Darcs.Patch.Match

2016-03-05 Guillaume Hoffmann

• move runHLint.sh to root and update to run outside of testsuite

2016-02-12 Ganesh Sittampalam

• drop re-exports from Darcs.Patch.Rebase
• abstract out checking whether a Named is internal
• add versions of simplifyPush[es] for Suspended
• move addFixup to Rebase.Container and give it a clearer name
• add Repair instance for Suspended
• Ignore the rebase internal patch when showing dependencies
• simplify instance ShowPatchBasic (RebaseSelect p)
• break out PatchInspect instance for Suspended
• rename mkSuspended to mkRebase and make it work on 'Suspended'
• use Suspended instead of FL RebaseItem in takeRebase
• break out RepairToFL instance for Suspended
• break out ReadPatch instance for Suspended
• break out Check instance for Suspended
• break out Show instances for Suspended
• break out Conflict instance for Suspended
• break out Effect instance for Suspended
• add PrimPatchBase instance for Suspended
• break out ShowPatch instance for Suspended
• break out Apply instance for Suspended
• refactor instance ShowPatch Rebasing a bit
• inline a couple of defaults to simplify future refactoring
• abstract out an instance ShowPatchBasic Suspended
• Introduce a 'Suspended' type to encapsulate 'FL RebaseItem'

2016-03-18 Ben Franksen

• skip ssh tests if ssh server is down
• made network ssh tests more robust by passing --skip-long-comment
• fix ssh network tests so they work in the test harness
• skip http network tests when server does not respond
• run network tests by default
• resolve issue2479: root dir most not be among the sources of a move
• accept issue2479: bug descending in modifyTree

2016-03-08 Guillaume Hoffmann

• update failing-issue2219
• acknowledge that issue1196 is solved
• acknowledge a working case in failing-index-argument.sh
• merge HACKING into README.md

2016-02-17 Ganesh Sittampalam

• get rid of a couple of trailing newlines

2016-02-05 Guillaume Hoffmann

• remove unused executable and testsuite dependencies
• comment in cabal file workaround
• group all non-optional build-depends
• remove unused darcs-test dependencies
• comment use of flag REENTRANT
• drop definition of HAVE_SIGINFO_H unused since 2009
• hlint Darcs.Util.Diff.Patience
• format patch names within 20 characters in dependencies output
• show dependencies up to last tag by default
• further merge hashed-storage code and tests into darcs code
• bump second html dependency
• darcs show dependencies
• implement function getDeps

2016-01-28 Ganesh Sittampalam

• fix git test involving deletions

2016-01-25 Guillaume Hoffmann

• handle file moves and copies when importing from git
• recommend using -M flag on git fast-export
• tests related to git import of file moves
• use F and T instead of From and To in whatsnew --machine-readable
• bump dependencies lower bounds implied by requiring ghc 7.6
• 2.10.3 changelog

2016-01-29 Ganesh Sittampalam

• support transformers-compat 0.5.x

2016-01-25 Guillaume Hoffmann

• avoid irrefutable pattern when importing unnamed commit
• test for deleting empty directories on git import
• delete empty directories on git import
• rollback filename dequoting on import since now done during parsing
• quoting and escaping of filenames in convert export and import
• test for checking filepaths consistency with git
• resolve issue2489: dequote filepaths while importing from git

2016-01-28 Ganesh Sittampalam

• fix tests that use "git commit"
• applyToTree is just a specialisation of applyToState
• drop unnecessary constraint
• simplify type
• drop unused (and never defined) putApplyState
• move the ObjectMap related code to the FileUUID patch type
• disentangle the state-specific ApplyMonad methods
• swap argument order to ApplyMonad/ApplyMonadTrans
• Rename Prim.V3 to Prim.FileUUID
• move listConflictedFiles out of Conflict class
• Get rid of default implementation of conflictedEffect
• Add some tests for how conflicts are reported
• Drop an unnecessary call to patchcontents in applyAndFix
• Drop unnecessary use of patchcontents in hunkmatch and touchmatch

2016-01-16 Guillaume Hoffmann

• rename Patch and RealPatch to RepoPatchV1 and RepoPatchV2 in harness
• rename Patch and RealPatch to RepoPatchV1 and RepoPatchV2 in darcs code
• do not open patches uselessly when no file restriction given
• add Darcs.Test.Patch.Selection and one unit test
• convert import should be a RepoJob, not a V2Job
• replace TaggedPatch by LabelledPatch in a comment
• whatsnew --machine-readable help string update on file moves
• --machine-readable flag for more parseable whatsnew
• fix code inside of a comment

2016-01-16 Ganesh Sittampalam

• resolve conflicts between changes to splitters and to hijacking
• capture diffAlgorithm in splitters instead of passing it to SelectChanges unconditionally
• drop unneeded export
• simplify the PatchInspect (Rebasing p) instance
• implement hunkMatches for PatchInfoAnd
• move Rebasing out into its own module
• break RebaseItem out into its own file
• bump async dependency
• conditionalise a couple of orphan instances
• resolve conflict in build-tools removal
• drop build-tools restriction
• Bump time, HTTP dependencies

2016-01-15 Guillaume Hoffmann

• set use-time-1point5 flag default to True to please stack
• disable interfering env variable in issue1739 test
• rename README to README.md to get it properly rendered

2016-01-15 Ganesh Sittampalam

• resolve conflict between binary version bump and containers dep
• bump binary, transformers and tar upper bounds

2016-01-14 Guillaume Hoffmann

• make commit an alias for record
• implement repoXor and show it in "show repo" output as "Weak Hash"

2015-12-28 Ganesh Sittampalam

• Portability fix - #type nl_item isn't always Int32
• add test that lost deps during rebase are reported on
• remove unused fmapPIAP

2015-12-22 Guillaume Hoffmann

• fix repo upgrade help string

2015-12-02 Ganesh Sittampalam

• resolve issue2481: expose API for 'darcs diff' command

2015-11-20 Guillaume Hoffmann

• remove a flag needed only for GHC < 7
• remove -fno-warn-dodgy-imports from modules that were still using it
• no longer hide catch from Prelude since we require ghc>=7.6
• acknowledge -fno-warn-dodgy-imports is always needed
• merge Darcs.Patch.ConflictMarking into Darcs.Patch.Conflict

2015-11-29 Ganesh Sittampalam

• bump dependencies on vector, process, HUnit
• force grep to treat output of locale as text

2015-11-20 Guillaume Hoffmann

• Rename Darcs.Repository.LowLevel to Darcs.Repository.Pending

2012-08-09 Eric Kow

• Haddock the pending patch parts of Darcs.Repository.State.
• Make Darcs.Repository.isSimple apply over a whole list.

2015-11-09 Guillaume Hoffmann

• rename NEWS to CHANGELOG to please hackagedb
• fix release date of 2.10.2
• update NEWS for 2.10.1 and 2.10.2
• fix two tests after stopping using the word changes in pull message
• shorter README with quickstart instructions

2015-11-06 Ganesh Sittampalam

• add comments about the rejected 'hasDuplicate' cases
• "Fix" some intermittent QuickCheck failures
• disambiguate imports in some test code
• Add an option to control the number of QuickCheck iterations
• make test-framework imports explicit

2015-11-05 Guillaume Hoffmann

• refactor breakAfterNthNewline and breakBeforeNthNewline
• refactor clone code
• download patches pack asynchronously
• ignore meta- files in packs when cloning
• comment in doOptimizeHTTP

2015-06-28 Ben Franksen

• remove race from D.R.Packs, further simplify the code

2015-10-31 Guillaume Hoffmann

• replace changes by log in release.sh
• remove darcs.spec.in file from 2008
• replace changes by log in Setup.lhs
• update upload.cgi with new command names
• update buildbot-try.sh with new command names
• update cygwin-wrapper file with new commands names and flags
• remove annotate xml schema no longer needed
• remove patch index correctness and timing scripts from contrib
• adapt tests to using patches word instead of changes
• update commands names in help strings

2015-10-28 Ganesh Sittampalam

• split issue1932 test up into a network and non-network part
• Avoid subshells in amend-unrecord test
• disable issue2086 test on Windows - umasks don't really work there
• using mmap on Windows was causing test failures
• warn when suspending "hijacked" patches in rebase pull and apply
• be a bit clearer about patch names in hijack test

2015-09-20 Eric Kow

• resolve issue2269: push hijack test to suspend time
• resolve issue2276: Keep track of patch hijack decisions
• Generalise hijack warning to support use in other commands
• Helper to capitalize a sentence

2015-06-24 Ben Franksen

• resolve issue2459: fall back to writing the file if createLink fails
• resolve issue2400: use async package to keep track of unpack threads
• removed special handling of --to-match from cloneRepository

2015-10-16 Guillaume Hoffmann

• remove redundant import

2015-10-15 Ganesh Sittampalam

• drop sandi lower bound to support GHC 7.4 and add an upper bound

2015-10-03 Daniil Frumin

• Switch from dataenc (deprecated) to sandi

2015-10-09 Guillaume Hoffmann

• replace changes by log in two help strings

2015-09-18 Eric Kow

• Refactor darcs send patch count text snippet
• Tidy darcs send msg code (shorter lines)
• Fix typo in darcs send message

2015-09-19 Guillaume Hoffmann

• make patch selection lazier in presence of matchers
• get rid of selectChanges
• inline patchSetToPatches in the only place where it is used

See darcs wiki entry for details.