DarcsWeeklyNews/2010-05-10

News and discussions

  1. Eric announced the release of darcs 2.4.3, which fixes critical bugs under Windows and fixes the performance regression of darcs convert:

  2. Simon Michael proposed a cleanup of the repository format names and gathered a few answers and proposals:

  1. Ganesh and Petr explained why it is not recommended anymore to build darcs with GHC 6.8:

Issues resolved in the last week (7)

issue64 Reinier Lamers
issue1232 Dino Morelli
issue1760 Petr Rockai
issue1769 Matthias Kilian
issue1814 Petr Rockai
issue1824 Eric Kow
issue1837 Petr Rockai

Patches applied in the last week (115)

2010-05-09 Eric Kow
  • Update homepage news for darcs 2.4.3 release.
  • Update website to link to 2.4.3 tarball.
  • The roundup tracker does not use a guest/guest login.
2010-05-08 Petr Rockai
  • Fix a number of “unused” warnings in Darcs.Commands.*.
  • Fix a number of “unused” warnings in Darcs.Repository*.
  • A new implementation of PatchSet and its operations.
  • Give a more informative error when hunk apply fails.
2010-05-08 Jason Dagit
  • work around cabal flag composition bug
2010-05-07 Eric Kow
  • Camel case Darcs.Test.
  • Camel case Darcs.Commands.ShowFiles.
  • Mark issue1837 test as passing.
  • Accept issue1837: inconsistent repo upon darcs get –partial.
2010-05-06 Petr Rockai
  • Also use readWorking in setScriptsExecutable (minor refactor).
  • Resolve issue1837: Add readWorking and use it in pristineFromWorking.
  • In replacePristine, cope also with Trees that have no hashes in them.
2010-05-07 Eric Kow
  • Remove seemingly unused Darcs.CheckFileSystem.
2010-05-06 Petr Rockai
  • Remove unorm.h dependency on Windows, since it’s no longer used.
  • Remove the icuuc dependency now that it is no longer used.
  • Fix compilation on GHC 6.12 on win32 (needs unix-compat).
  • Normalise path separators in the query_manifest test.
  • Let’s try to fix install-deps.sh for the case of multiple packages missing.
  • Bump hashed-storage dependency to 0.5.
  • Purge Slurpy usage in Commands.Rollback (use announceFiles from whatsnew).
  • Use stock setScriptsExecutable from Darcs.Repository in Commands.Convert.
  • Clean up unused bits in Repository.HashedIO.
  • Make clean_hashdir work on repository-local dirs even without caches.
  • Resolve conflict in Commands.Record.
  • Resolve conflicts in Commands.Add.
  • Resolve conflicts in Match.
  • Resolve conflict in Commands.Move.
  • Resolve conflicts in Repository.Internal.
  • Resolve conflicts in Commands.ShowFiles.
  • Filter out _darcs in setScriptsExecutable.
  • Make the automatic pristine conversion a bit nicer.
  • Bump the mmap dependency to match that of hashed-storage HEAD.
  • Remove a couple of unused Cache parameters.
  • Automatically drop size prefixes from all of pristine when needed.
  • Purge unused fileExists from Commands.Record.
  • Avoid use of SlurpDirectory in Commands.ShowFiles.
  • Remove SlurpDirectory.
  • Replace slurp_recorded with readRecorded in make_new_pending.
  • Use a more canonic way to create empty hashed pristine.
  • Reimplement applyHashed in terms of hashedTreeIO (Storage.Hashed.Monad).
  • Use a more canonic way to create empty hashed pristine in optimize (–upgrade).
  • Port Commands.Move from Slurpy to Tree.
  • Re-implement setScriptsExecutable using Trees instead of Slurpies.
  • Re-implement optimize –relink using Trees instead of Slurpies.
  • Generalize announceFiles used by whatsnew and use it in record as well.
  • Re-work Commands.Add (simplify, use the new treeHas* functions).
  • Re-implement the Slurp-based file/dir existence-check functions in terms of Trees.
  • Replace SlurpDirectory usage in Commands.Add with Tree-based code.
  • Remove implementation of –store-in-memory, simplifying matcher code.
2010-05-05 Eric Kow
  • Camel case some leftovers in Darcs.Commands.{Add,Move}.
  • Camel case Darcs.Commands.Pull again (fetch).
  • Catch Darcs.Hopefully up with Darcs.Patch.Info camel casing.
  • Resolve conflicts: fetch, obliterate -o vs SelectChanges refactor.
2010-04-22 Florent Becker
  • Add a fetch command
  • Add -o option to obliterate, to keep a backup of the patch
  • fix conflicts in Send
  • extract a few functions from Send
2010-05-05 Dino Morelli
  • Extend issue1232: darcs convert fails if missing _darcs/prefs/prefs
  • Extend issue1232: test to account for missing _darcs/prefs/prefs case
2010-05-05 Eric Kow
  • Camel case Darcs.Patch.Info.
  • Remove redundant Darcs.Commands.Optimize.isTag.
  • Fix typos in matcher documentation.
2010-05-02 Matthias Kilian
  • Documentation for `hunk’ and `comment’ matchers
  • resolve issue1769: add support for –match ‘comment …’
2010-05-05 Eric Kow
  • Camel case unit tester.
  • Fix unit.lhs: s/metadataStringTest/metadataDecodingTest/.
2010-05-02 Petr Rockai
  • Resolve issue1760: Fix working directory handling in Commands.Convert.
2010-05-02 Florent Becker
  • remove spurious todo in Choices.hs
  • make the new Patch.Choices compile in ghc6.10
  • Fix representation of patches in darcs revert’s interactive selection
  • Clean up the new version of Patch.Choices
  • fix patch counting in interactive selection
  • fix conflicts in SelectChanges
  • Change representation of PatchChoices
  • resolve conflicts in SelectChanges
  • monadify interactive patch selection
  • Resolve conflicts in Record.lhs
  • add the –reverse option to all patch-selecting commands
  • resolve conflicts in AmendRecord.lhs
  • Simplify SelectChanges’ interface and non-interactive part
  • add a witnessed zipper type
  • Some haddocks for Patch.Choices
2010-05-02 Reinier Lamers
  • Rename metadataStringTest to metadataDecodingTest
  • Add some haddock in Darcs.Patch.Info
  • Document behavior of text decoding functions in case of malformed input
  • resolve issue64: store metadata as UTF-8, autodetect UTF-8, and don’t normalize to NFC
2010-04-30 Petr Rockai
  • Resolve issue1814: Include contrib/darcs-errors.hlint in release tarball.
2010-05-03 Eric Kow
  • Resolve issue1824: avoid PACKAGE_VERSION under Windows.
  • Avoid PACKAGE_VERSION CPP macro in HTTP (see issue1824 note below).
2010-04-25 Dmitry Kurochkin
  • Haddock for Darcs.Repository.Cache.unionRemoteCaches.
2010-04-14 Eric Kow
  • Camel case SHA1.
2010-04-27 Petr Rockai
  • Fix typo (dacas -> darcs).
2010-04-18 Dmitry Kurochkin
  • URL: keep notify MVars in a single place.
  • Fix hscurl.c when URL is downloaded during the first call to curl_multi_perform.
  • hscurl.c: remove #ifdef HAVE_CURL check.
  • Simplify libcurl pipelining configuration.
  • Pass -DCURL_PIPELINING to C compiler when HTTP pipelining is enabled.
2010-04-26 Eric Kow
  • Mention darcs blog and planet on homepage.
2010-04-17 Dino Morelli
  • style tweak: reformatted an import
  • Resolve issue1232: darcs convert forgets _darcs/prefs/prefs
  • Accept issue1232: darcs convert forgets _darcs/prefs/prefs
2010-04-23 Eric Kow
  • Camel case Darcs.Patch.OldDate.
  • Camel case Darcs.URL.
  • Camel case Darcs.Resolution.
  • Camel case Darcs.CommandsAux.
  • Camel case Darcs.ArgumentDefaults.
  • Camel case ByteStringUtils.
2010-04-25 Petr Rockai
  • Skip tests/issue1645-ignore-symlinks on win32.
  • Bump h-s dependency to 0.4.12, working around an lstat bug on windows.
2010-04-22 Florent Becker
  • export the right list of patches when not pulling anything
  • Resolve conflicts in Commands.Pull
  • Refactor Darcs.Commands.Pull