DarcsWeeklyNews/2009-05-17

News and discussions

  1. Eric Kow provided us with an update about the expenditures of the funds ~ raised before the sprint:
  1. Simon Marlow explained the current workflow of the GHC team with
    darcs and the needs of the developers, which lead to a discussion on a darcs equivalent to git rebase and hg transplant:

* http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-May/019748.html ~ - http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-May/019777.html - http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-May/019778.html

Issues resolved in the last week (4)

issue1173 Salvatore Insalaco
issue1248 Ganesh Sittampalam
issue1351 Salvatore Insalaco
issue1455 Trent W. Buck

Patches applied in the last week (47)

2009-05-16 Trent W. Buck
  • Demote one-paragraph sections into a definition list.
  • Rewrite “see also” sections of home page.
  • Point out up-front how dated LWN’s recommendation is.
  • Don’t abuse <table> as presentational markup (use CSS instead).
  • Avoid patently unnecessary consing.
  • Capitalize Darcs’ name.
  • Make index.html XHTML 1.0 Strict (was HTML 4).
  • Update hard link docs: NTFS is now supported.
  • Relicense tests/EXAMPLE.sh (from GPL2+ to MIT).
2009-05-01 Eric Kow
  • Haddock Darcs.Patch.Prim.commute_no_conflicts.
2008-11-15 David Roundy
  • make rollback smarter about breaking up changes.
2009-05-09 Trent W. Buck
  • Obviate DARCS_TESTING_HOME workaround by setting %APPDATA% correctly.
2009-05-02 Eric Kow
  • Mention SFC membership on front page.
  • Update web page to account for mailing list merge.
  • Update donations page with SFC details.
2009-05-13 Trent W. Buck
  • Make tests/EXAMPLE.sh work when in bugs/.
  • Teach preproc how to find the environment variable help.
  • Naturalize some lists used in docs.
  • Teach src/English to generate a natural list from a Haskell list.
  • Module haddock for English.
2008-11-10 David Roundy
  • remove unused darcs.nsi
2009-05-13 Trent W. Buck
  • Migrate SENDMAIL documentation to environmentHelp.
  • Migrate SSH_PORT documentation to environmentHelp.
  • Fix make install.
  • Fix cabal sdist.
2009-05-13 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • make issue1248 script follow example template
2009-05-03 Trent W. Buck
  • Test “darcs apply f” as well as “darcs apply <f”.
2008-12-10 David Roundy
  • fix error output (which leaked userError).
  • cut hardly-used type synonym.
2009-05-13 Trent W. Buck
  • Remove stale import.
  • Migrate environment variable documentation.
  • Add ENVIRONMENT section to manpage.
  • Move Darcs.Manpage into Darcs.Commands.Help.
  • Resolve issue1455: implement “darcs help environment”.
  • Haddockize Darcs.Global.atexit.
2009-05-12 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • resolve issue 1248: support compressed inventories for darcs-1 repos
  • script for issue1248
2009-05-10 Florian Weimer
  • Update wiki URLs to point to wiki.darcs.net
2009-05-01 Salvatore Insalaco
  • Resolve issue1173: support hard links on NTFS.
  • Resolve issue1351: fix repository path handling on Windows.
2009-05-02
  • add back documentation on –patches, –from-patch, and –to-patch
2009-05-09 Salvatore Insalaco
  • Remove unused function: Darcs.Patch.Prim.applyBinary
2009-05-09 Trent W. Buck
  • Refactor preproc to remove cascade.
  • Remove obsolete example{} support from preproc.
  • Make am_html less stupid.
  • Typo: stray closing quote.
  • Move tools/ to contrib/.