darcs weekly news #93

News and discussions

1. The Shouthampton sprint begins this Friday! More information on the wiki:
   
   • http://wiki.darcs.net/Sprints/2012-03
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2012-February/026379.html
2. Haskell.org is participating to this year's Google Summer of Code, and is going to act as an umbrella organization for Darcs:
   
   • http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2012-March/100247.html

Issues resolved in the last week (2)

issue1228 Michael Hendricks

• Add --pause-for-gui to diff, pull and apply
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1228

issue2145 Guillaume Hoffmann

• enable j key in amend-record
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2145

Patches applied in the last week (20)

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darcs weekly news #92

News and discussions

1. The Shouthampton sprint will happen from March 30th until April 1st, it is still possible to participate by adding oneself to the wiki and following the directions:
   
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2012-February/026379.html
   • http://wiki.darcs.net/Sprints/2012-03
2. A one-day sprint happened in Córdoba, Argentina, on March 9th:
   
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2012-March/026417.html

Issues resolved in the last week (3)

issue1812 Miguel Pagano

• follow emacs convention for backup files
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1812

issue2116 Andreas Brandt

• darcs dist --index no longer fails
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2116

issue2132 Florent Becker

• ignore edit of 'BEFORE' part for hunk-edit in revert
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2132

Patches applied in the last week (62)

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darcs weekly news #91

News and discussions

1. Ganesh uploaded a third beta of Darcs 2.8:
   
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2012-January/026364.html
2. The next Darcs Sprint has a tentative date and place of 31 march, Southampton. Please annotate yourself on the wiki to participate:
   
   • http://wiki.darcs.net/Sprints/2012-03

Issues resolved in the last week (1)

issue1470 Johannes Weiss

• Allow to amend-record patch by removing some hunks
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1470

Patches applied in the last week (11)

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darcs weekly news #90

News and discussions

1. Ganesh Sittampalam uploaded the second beta of darcs 2.8:
   
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2012-January/026356.html
2. Zooko O'Whielacronx called for a new maintainer for darcsver:
   
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2012-January/026350.html
3. Eric Kow summed up the recent issues of Darcs with regards to SSH:
   
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2012-January/026340.html

Issues resolved in the last week (2)

issue845 Eric Kow

• pass ssh stderr through.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue845

issue2090 Eric Kow

• correctly detect existing transfer-mode connection.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2090

Patches applied in the last week (44)

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darcs weekly news #89

News and discussions

1. Owen Stephens summarized his work on the darcs-bridge summer of code and did some followup work on it:
   
   • http://blog.owenstephens.co.uk/201109/gsoc-darcs-bridge-%E2%80%93-results
   • http://blog.owenstephens.co.uk/201111/darcs-bridge-bug-tracker-and-updates
2. Eric Kow introduced an 'announce' topic filter on the mailing list to provide a low-traffic announcement subset of the list:
   
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2011-November/026321.html
3. Mark Stosberg announced a donation of $500 on behalf of Summersault. Remember you too can donate by going on the donations page of darcs.net:
   
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2011-December/026335.html
   • http://www.darcs.net/donations.html
4. Interested by participating in the next Darcs sprint in March? Add yourself to the wiki page:
   
   • http://wiki.darcs.net/Sprints/2012-03

Issues resolved in the last week (1)

issue1705 Eric Kow

• show contents --index fixed by Owen.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1705

Patches applied in the last week (27)

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darcs weekly news #88

News and discussions

1. The Darcs 2.8 line has been branched for a tentative release in August:
   
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2011-June/026206.html
2. To catch up with Owen's Summer of Code on git-darcs bridging:
   
   • http://blog.owenstephens.co.uk/201105/gsoc-darcs-bridge-week-0
   • http://blog.owenstephens.co.uk/201106/gsoc-darcs-bridge-week-2
   • http://blog.owenstephens.co.uk/201106/gsoc-darcs-bridge-week-3
   • http://blog.owenstephens.co.uk/201106/gsoc-first-simple-merging-branches-git-import
   • http://blog.owenstephens.co.uk/201106/gsoc-darcs-bridge-week-45
   • http://blog.owenstephens.co.uk/201107/gsoc-darcs-bridge-%E2%80%93-week-678
   • http://blog.owenstephens.co.uk/201107/gsoc-darcs-bridge-%E2%80%93-detecting-merges
3. To catch up with Petr's Summer of Code on Prim3 patches:
   
   • http://web.mornfall.net/blog/soc_reloaded:_darcs_primitive_patches_version_3.html
   • http://web.mornfall.net/blog/soc_reloaded:_progress_1.html

Issues resolved in the last week (10)

issue1473 Florent Becker

• : annotate --repodir works now
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1473

issue1714 Florent Becker

• make --no-{pre,post}hook and --{pre,post}hook interact sensibly
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1714

issue1727 Florent Becker

• forbid moving the root of the repository
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1727

issue1740 Florent Becker

• handle post-hoc darcs mv for directories correctly
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1740

issue2021 Florent Becker

• 2021: make escaping not split strings too much
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2021

issue2054 Scott Lawrence

• option --boring does not work with self-made boringfile
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2054

issue2066 Andreas Brandt

• file does not exist when recording deleted file
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2066

issue2067 Florent Becker

• inexsitant files result in empty lines in darcs
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2067

issue2076 Florent Becker

• 2076: handle post-hoc move into an non-added directory
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2076

issue2079 Florent Becker

• 2079: don't set default repository by default in put
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2079

Patches applied in the last week (69)

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darcs weekly news #87

News and discussions

1. Darcs received funding for two Google Summer of Code students, Owen Stephens and Petr Rockai:
   
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2011-April/026103.html
   • http://blog.owenstephens.co.uk/201104/gsoc-project-accepted
   • http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/mornfall/1
2. Andrew Pennebaker built and put online Windows installers for Darcs 2.5.2:
   
   • http://www.yellosoft.us/helpers
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2011-April/026113.html
3. We are looking for a new issue manager:
   
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2011-May/026130.html
4. And here is the report of last month's darcs sprint (Paris) in case you missed it:
   
   • http://blog.darcs.net/2011/04/darcs-hacking-sprint-6-report.html

Issues resolved in the last week (5)

issue1640 Radoslav Dorcik

• darcs apply --verbose without args mentions stdin.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1640

issue1661 Scott Lawrence

• make add --quiet quieter
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1661

issue1665 Chris Trompette

• wrong default suggestions for Windows
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1665

issue1804 Eric Kow

• friendlier message when adding missing files.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1804

issue2052 Owen Stephens

• Implicitly use unified diff, unless told not to.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2052

Patches applied in the last week (27)

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