DarcsWeeklyNews/2009-08-31
News and discussions
- Taylor Campbell brought up the topic of filecache as an optimisation for ~ darcs, which helped Eric Kow pointing to the relevant action, tools and bug tickets:
* http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-August/021018.html ~ - http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-August/021022.html
- Duncan Coutts brought figures about darcs 2.3’s poor performance
- with darcs-1 repositories:
- Jason Dagit made some experiments by versionning the source code of Linux ~ into darcs, and trying to enhance CPU and memory efficiency of darcs record:
Issues resolved in the last week (3)
- issue1373 Trent W. Buck
- don’t use a broken example.
- http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1373
- issue1548 Trent W. Buck
- show contents requires at least one argument.
- http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1548
- issue1578 Judah Jacobson
- Don’t put newlines in the Haskeline prompts.
- http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1578
Patches applied in the last week (28)
- 2009-08-30 Jason Dagit
- minor clean up in TouchesFiles
- silence a warning that happens when compiling witnesses
- remove unused argument to readPrim
- use gzipFormat instead of GZip to work around deprecation warning.
- 2009-08-29 Judah Jacobson
- Resolve issue1578: Don’t put newlines in the Haskeline prompts.
- 2009-08-29 Trent W. Buck
- Whoops, one more obviated line from Darcs.Repository.Checkpoint.
- Resolve issue1548: show contents requires at least one argument.
- Add a hidden alias “darcs log” for “darcs changes”.
- 2009-08-28 Eric Kow
- Mark issue68 test as failing (and fix issue number).
- 2009-08-28 Trent W. Buck
- Resolve issue1373: don’t use a broken example.
- Reorder paragraphs and minor rewrite of darcs replace –help.
- Remove unused code from Darcs.Repository.Checkpoint.
- The record-scaling test still fails.
- 2009-08-27 Ganesh Sittampalam
- Print helpful message in gzcrcs command when visiting other repos
- 2009-08-24 Eric Kow
- Clean up leftover conflicts from merge with David’s test suite work.
- Resolve conflicts between David and mainline test suite work.
- 2009-03-29 David Roundy
- add failing test demonstrating nasty conflict markings.
- mark check.sh test as passing.
- mark issue27 test as passing.
- mark issue 1043 test as passing.
- mark nfs-failure.sh as passing (even though it might not be fixed).
- mark dist-v as passing.
- mark check.sh as failing.
- clean up and mark as passing the broken-pipe.sh test.
- mark issue 525 is no longer failing.
- move bugs into tests/ directory.
- 2009-08-26 Taylor R Campbell
- Eliminate references to the autotools-based build system.
- 2009-08-27 Ganesh Sittampalam
- update docs for darcs mv to reflect reality