Darcs News #110

News and discussions

1. The Darcs 2.10 release is near! Please test the release branch and tell us if you find a bug.
   
   • http://darcs.net/Releases/2.10
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2015-March/027105.html
2. Joachim Breitner has shut down his darcswatch service after 7 years of activity:
   
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2015-February/027102.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2015-February/027104.html
   • http://www.joachim-breitner.de/blog/672-DarcsWatch_End-Of-Life%E2%80%99d

Issues resolved (11)

issue822 Ernesto Rodriguez

• Generalized the IO Type for better error messages and exception handling
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue822

issue2260 Ganesh Sittampalam

• skip internal patches when counting 
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2260

issue2385 Guillaume Hoffmann

• invoke pager without temporary file 
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2385

issue2410 Guillaume Hoffmann

• detect replaces even with tokens of different lengths 
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2410

issue2411 Guillaume Hoffmann

• ignore swap moves with --look-for-moves 
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2411

issue2414 Guillaume Hoffmann

• use parseFlags instead of toMatchFlags where needed 
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2414

issue2418 Guillaume Hoffmann

• add and check on-disk patch index version 
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2418

issue2422 Ganesh Sittampalam

• drop unneeded LambdaCase extension 
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2422

issue2427 Ben Franksen

• start conversion from intermediate tree state 
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2427

issue2431 Ben Franksen

• rollback Control.Monad.Catch generalizations 
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2431

issue2432 Ganesh Sittampalam

• use the merged version of the local patches 
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2432

issue2437 Guillaume Hoffmann

• fix cloning to ssh by forgetting source repo later 
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2437

Patches applied (111)

See darcs wiki entry for details.

Darcs News #109

News and discussions

1. We are in the feature freeze period of darcs 2.10:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2014-November/027056.html

2. Our two Summer of Code projects ended up two months ago. Marcio and Ale's code will be part of the upcoming new stable version of darcs. In case you missed them, here are the latest posts of Marcio for his project:

• http://marcioodiaz.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/gsoc-progress-report-3-bucketed-global_23.html
• http://marcioodiaz.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/gsoc-progress-report-4-garbage.html
• http://marcioodiaz.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/gsoc-progress-report-5-starting.html

3. Ale's posts:

• http://alegdarcs.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/month-of-june.html
• http://alegdarcs.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/some-week-14-19-july.html
• http://alegdarcs.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/other-week-21-26-july.html
• http://alegdarcs.blogspot.com.ar/2014/08/last-few-weeks.html

Issues resolved (7)

issue1514 Guillaume Hoffmann

• send --minimize-context flag for send
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1514

issue1624 Marcio Diaz

• bucketed cache.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1624

issue2153 Andreas Brandt

• allow skipping backwards through depended-upon patches
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2153

issue2249 Mateusz Lenik

• Rename isFile to isValidLocalPath and WorkRepoURL to WorkRepoPossibleURL
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2249

issue2380 Owen Stephens

• allow darcs mv into known, but deleted in working, file
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2380

issue2403 Ganesh Sittampalam

• need to avoid moving the rebase patch to the end
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2403

issue2409 Ganesh Sittampalam

• implement darcs rebase apply
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2409

Patches applied (118)

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Darcs News #108

News and discussions

1. We have a few updates from the Google Summer of Code projects. Alejandro Gadea about history reordering:
   
   • http://alegdarcs.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/first-week-19-23-may.html
   • http://alegdarcs.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/second-week-26-30-may.html
   • http://alegdarcs.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/third-week-02-06-june.html
2. Marcio Diaz about the cache system:
   
   • http://marcioodiaz.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/gsoc-progress-report-2-bucketed-global.html
3. Incremental fast-export is now provided to ease maintenance of git mirrors:
   
   • http://hub.darcs.net/darcs/darcs-screened/patch/20140609190214-5ef8f

Issues resolved (8)

issue2244 Ale Gadea

• darcs tag should warn about duplicate tags
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2244

issue2314 Benjamin Franksen

• output-auto-name in defaults file
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2314

issue2361 Ale Gadea

• optimize --reorder runs forever with one repository
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2361

issue2364 Sergei Trofimovich

• fix file corruption on double fetch
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2364

issue2364 Sergei Trofimovich

• don't break list of 'bad sources'
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2364

issue2388 Owen Stephens

• check if inventories dir has been created
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2388

issue2394 Guillaume Hoffmann

• make optimize a supercommand
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2394

issue2396 Guillaume Hoffmann

• make convert a supercommand and enhance help strings
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2396

Patches applied (39)

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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)

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Darcs News #106

News and discussions

1. Darcs is participating once again to the Google Summer of Code, through the umbrella organization Haskell.org. Deadline for student application is Friday 21st:
   
   • http://darcs.net/GSoC
   • https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2014/help_page
2. It is now possible to donate stock to darcs through the Software Freedom Conservancy organization. Donations by Paypal, Flattr, checks and wire transfer are still possible:
   
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2013-December/026977.html
   • http://darcs.net/Donations
3. Dan Licata wrote a presentation about Darcs as a higher inductive type:
   
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2014-January/026985.html
4. Darcs now directly provides import and export commands with Git. This code was adapted from Petr Rockai's darcs-fastconvert, with some changes by Owen Stephen from his Summer of Code project "darcs-bridge":
   
   • http://hub.darcs.net/darcs/darcs-screened/patch/20140125154537-5ef8f

Issues resolved (6)

issue642 Jose Luis Neder

• Automatic detection of file renames
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue642

issue2209 Jose Luis Neder

• Automatically detect replace
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2209

issue2319 Guillaume Hoffmann

• make changes non-interactive if fed to a pipe
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2319

issue2332 Guillaume Hoffmann

• ignore case of characters in prompt
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2332

issue2335 Guillaume Hoffmann

• one liner when adding tracked files if not verbose
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2335

issue2348 Ryan

• switch to cabal's test framework
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2348

Patches applied (34)

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darcs news #105

News and discussions

1. This year's Google Summer of Code projects brought a lot of improvements to darcs and its ecosystem!
   
   • BSRK Aditya: Darcsden improvements:
     
     • http://joyful.com/blog/2013-09-26-darcsden-darcs-hub-gsoc-complete.html
     • http://bsrkaditya.blogspot.com.ar/2013/09/darcsden-gsoc-final-blog-post.html
   • José Neder: patience diff, file move detection, token replace detection:
     
     • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2013-October/026945.html
     • http://blog.jlneder.com.ar/search/label/darcs
2. Gian Piero Carrubba asked why adjacent hunks could not commute:
   
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2013-November/026958.html
3. We listed the changes that occurred between version 2.8.4 and the current development branch into a 2.10 release page:
   
   • http://darcs.net/Releases/2.10?revision=20131028184855-5ef8f-ba33870773ad9ee010a470ac8536b5c7ae331b50

Issues resolved (8)

issue346 Jose Luis Neder

• implement "patience diff" from bzr
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue346

issue1828 Guillaume Hoffmann

• file listing and working --dry-run for mark-conflicts
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1828

issue2181 Guillaume Hoffmann

• put cache in $XDG_CACHE_HOME (~/.cache by default)
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2181

issue2309 Owen Stephens

• annotate includes line numbers
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2309

issue2313 Jose Luis Neder

• whatsnew -l: Stack space overflow
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2313

issue2334 Guillaume Hoffmann

• fix win32 build removing file permission functions
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2334

issue2343 Jose Luis Neder

• darcs amend-record does not record my change
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2343

issue2347 Guillaume Hoffmann

• fix amend-record --prompt-long-comment
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2347

Patches applied (39)

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darcs news #104

News and discussions

1. Google Summer of Code 2013 has begun! BSRK and José will post updates on their blogs:
   
   • http://bsrkaditya.blogspot.com/search/label/darcs
   • http://blog.jlneder.com.ar/search/label/darcs

Issues resolved (8)

issue2163 Radoslav Dorcik

• new option for amend, select author for patch stealing.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2163

issue2227 Ganesh Sittampalam

• move the rebase patch to the end before an amend-record
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2227

issue2248 Ganesh Sittampalam

• always clean up rebase-in-progress state
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2248

issue2250 BSRK Aditya

• tabbing in usageHelper - pad by max length of command name
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2250

issue2311 Sebastian Fischer

• posthook for 'get' should run in created repo
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2311

issue2312 Sebastian Fischer

• posthooks for 'record' and 'amend-record' should receive DARCS_PATCHES
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2312

issue2320 Jose Luis Neder

• save prompted author name in ~/.darcs/author instead of ./_darcs/prefs/author
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2320

issue2321 Jose Luis Neder

• when no patch name given, directly invoke text editor
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2321

Patches applied (20)

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