darcs weekly news #75

News and discussions

1. Reiner releases the release candidate 1 and the packager's preview 1 of Darcs 2.5:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-October/025466.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-October/025473.html

2. Florent and Ganesh volunteered to be the next co-release managers:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-October/025499.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-October/025537.html

3. Finally, the Darcs Hacking Sprint took place last week in Orleans. We will soon post a report.

Issues resolved in the last week (3)

issue1942 Dmitry Astapov

• fix the fix which ended up too strict due to unsealing.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1942

issue1948 Eric Kow

• send BTS update emails as noreply@
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1948

issue1951 Reinier Lamers

• refuse to add files outside repository
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1951

Patches applied in the last week (22)

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darcs weekly news #74

News and discussions

1. Reinier updated us about the state of darcs 2.5:
   
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-October/025408.html
2. Eric proposed a way to reduce non-user related traffic on the darcs-users mailing list:
   
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-September/025380.html
3. Ganesh tried to build darcs 2.5 with GHC 7.0:
   
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-September/025374.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-October/025407.html

Issues resolved in the last week (0)

Patches applied in the last week (3)

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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)

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darcs weekly news #71

News and discussions

1. Darcs 2.5 beta 4 was released:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-August/024998.html

2. Ganesh put online his branch of darcs containing the ``rebase'' command for all to try. Simon Marlow gave feedback on this feature:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-August/024924.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-August/024955.html

3. Joachim Breiner uploaded ipatch on hackage:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-August/024983.html

Issues resolved in the last week (3)

issue1875 Eric Kow

• avoid accidentally setting default.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1875

issue1898 Eric Kow

• notify user when they can use set-default.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1898

issue1913 Ganesh Sittampalam

• sort changes in treeDiff
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1913

Patches applied in the last week (31)

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darcs weekly news #70

News and discussions

1. Darcs 2.5 beta 3 was released:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-August/024897.html

2. The next Darcs Hacking Sprint will take place at Orleans, France, the 15-17 of October:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-August/024886.html
   • http://wiki.darcs.net/Sprints/2010-10

3. Version 0.1.9 of darcs-benchmark was released, including bugfixes and experimental support for comparison with git and mercurial:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-August/024785.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-August/024749.html
   • http://wiki.darcs.net/Benchmarks/Mornfall?revision=20100807120334-328e3-64802e95bafde8a279faafa7baba24b0558ebb0a.gz

4. Adolfo Builes blogged about the end of his summer of code project. A summary of his project is available on the wiki:

   • http://abuiles.blogspot.com/2010/08/gsoc-week-11.html
   • http://abuiles.blogspot.com/2010/08/gsoc-week-12.html
   • http://wiki.darcs.net/GSoC/2010-Cache

Issues resolved in the last week (7)

issue1290 Eric Kow

• support diff --index.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1290

issue1530 Eric Kow

• allow user to pick from multiple email address.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1530

issue1599 Adolfo Builes

• 1599: automatically expire unused caches
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1599

issue1873 Petr Rockai

• give nicer error when apply fails due to missing patches.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1873

issue1896 Ganesh Sittampalam

• enable witnesses for library
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1896

issue1908 Petr Rockai

• try to create a global cache before checking its availability.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1908

issue1909 Petr Rockai

• generate correct context in unpull -O.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1909

Patches applied in the last week (49)

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darcs weekly news #69

News and discussions

1. darcs 2.5 beta 2 was released. Give it a try!

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-July/024642.html

2. Reinier explained why beta 3 will have to wait a little:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-August/024681.html

3. Joachim "nomeata" Breitner released a ipatch, a tool based on darcs' hunk editing feature:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-August/024699.html
   • https://www.joachim-breitner.de/blog/archives/425-ipatch,-the-interactive-patch-editor.html

4. Two more blog posts from our Summer of Code students Adolfo and Alexey:

   • http://abuiles.blogspot.com/2010/07/gsoc-week-9.html
   • http://darcs-gsoc2010.blogspot.com/2010/08/gsoc-2010-progress-report-2.html

Issues resolved in the last week (2)

issue1888 Petr Rockai

• fix changes --context.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1888

issue1892 Petr Rockai

• Improve safety of makeBundle* and fix a couple of related bugs.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1892

Patches applied in the last week (38)

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