DarcsWeeklyNews/2012-04-27

News and discussions

  1. Darcs 2.8 was released:

  2. Report of the seventh hacking sprint was put online:

  3. BSRK Aditya was accepted as a Summer of Code student to work on the patch index optimization:

Issues resolved in the last week (4)

issue1166 Guillaume Hoffmann
  • –unified flag for record, amend-record, revert and unrevert
  • http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1166
issue2065 Owen Stephens
  • filter and give warning for any malformed boring regexs.
  • http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2065
issue2120 Adam Wolk
  • Darcs fails to invoke an editor under MS Windows
  • http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2120
issue2139 Florent Becker
  • detect what to do when using darcs mv into/onto a directory
  • http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2139

Patches applied in the last week (111)

2012-04-24 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • update source link for 2.8 release
2012-04-05 Owen Stephens
  • Layout/Tidy of Patch.Bundle
2012-04-05 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • remove stale Tested-with entry from cabal file
2012-04-01 Owen Stephens
  • Haddock HashedRepo, and make a few fairly trivial refactorings
  • Extract duplicated code in readInventoryPrivate, in HashedRepo
  • Extract out the use of “pristine:” literal into an identifier
  • Refactor listInventories function in HashedRepo
  • Extract string literals for identifiers for inventories/pristine
  • hlint suggestions to HashedRepo
  • Change fmap -> <$> in HashedRepo
  • Layout/tidy of Repository/HashedRepo
  • Fix Patch.Set export list indentation
2012-04-06 Michael Hendricks
  • Implement exponential backoff test strategy
  • Factor out function to build bisect strategy initial state
  • Factor out initial test run
  • Improve darcs test descriptive help
  • Correct typos in trackdown-bisect test comments
  • Consistent test strategy function naming
  • Clearer test strategy selection
  • Factor out Strategy type
  • Unify darcs test strategy type signatures
  • Use safeApply throughout Darcs.Commands.Test
  • Style and Haddock for Darcs.Commands.Test
2012-04-17 Owen Stephens
  • Parse RepoFormat properties once, storing as an ADT, rather than a ByteString.
  • More tidying of Repository.Format
  • Tidy Repository.Format
  • Tidy Repository.Merge
2012-04-01 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • move URL.Curl to other-modules to avoid problems when curl isn’t available
  • add a comment
  • drop unnecessary superclasses from MyEq (PatchInfoAnd p)
  • drop unnecessary call to joinPatches in Darcs.Resolution
  • drop unnecessary call to joinPatches in Darcs.Repository.Merge
2012-03-31 Eric Kow
  • Replace CPP witness macros with plain Haskell in Darcs.SelectChanges.hs
  • Replace CPP witness macros with plain Haskell in Darcs.PrintPatch.hs
  • Replace witness CPP macros with plain Haskell in Darcs.Commands.AmendRecord
2012-04-01 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • fix name shadowing warning in Darcs.SelectChanges
2012-03-16 Guillaume Hoffmann
  • dirty fix for compile error in SelectChanges
2012-03-09 Andreas Brandt
  • Tidy up wspfr
2012-03-08 Guillaume Hoffmann
  • resolve issue1166 –unified flag for record, amend-record, revert and unrevert
  • change help of –unified to refer to changes in place of patches
2012-04-22 Florent Becker
  • Update current version in homepage
2012-04-20 Michael Hendricks
  • Patch 788 bundle
2012-04-01 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • import constructors of C types to deal with a GHC change
  • fix deprecation about using unsafePerformIO from Foreign
  • add missing type signatures
  • remove unused imports in Darcs.Commands.Revert
  • remove unused imports in Darcs.Ssh
  • remove unused import in Darcs.Global
  • remove unused import in Darcs.Patch.ApplyMonad
  • fix name shadowing warnings in src/Darcs/Patch/ApplyMonad
  • remove unused import in Darcs.Patch.Choices
  • fix deprecated syntax in Darcs.Patch.Choices
  • remove unusued imports in Darcs.Patch.Patchy.Instances
  • remove redundant exports from Darcs.Patch.Prim
  • remove unusued imports from Darcs.Patch.Prim.V1.Show
  • remove unused import from Darcs.Patch.Prim.V1.Show
  • add missing type signature in Darcs.Patch.Split
  • switch from block/unblock to mask
  • change from deprecated use of GHC.Handle.fdToHandle
  • remove an no-longer-needed pragma
  • remove unused import in Darcs.Patch.RepoPatch
  • remove unused imports in Darcs.Patch.V1.Viewing
  • remove unused imports in Darcs.Patch.V2.Non
  • remove unused imports in Darcs.Patch.Viewing
  • add missing type signatures in Darcs.Repository.HashedIO
  • remove unused definition in Darcs.Repository.HashedIO
  • remove unused import in Darcs.Repository.Prefs
  • remove unused import in Darcs.Repository.Repair
  • remove unused imports in Darcs.Repository.State
  • remove unused variable in Darcs.Repository.State
  • ignore name shadowing warnings in Darcs.Patch.V2.*
  • fix some warnings in Darcs.Patch.Prim.V3.*
  • silence various warnings for now
  • silence warnings about Prelude.catch for now
2012-04-20 Michael Hendricks
  • Find latin9 locale on OS X too
2012-03-30 Simon Michael
  • be a little smarter about finding a latin9 locale for shell tests
  • update utf8.sh test to suit the “last regrets” record prompt
2012-04-07 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • update for RC2
2012-04-20 Michael Hendricks
  • Patch 782 dependencies
2012-04-01 Eric Kow
  • Fix HTML typo in 2.8 RC announcement.
2012-04-01 Florent Becker
  • Announce 2.8 rc 1
2012-04-01 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • bump minimum GHC version
  • fix build-tools constraint for test project
2012-04-20 Michael Hendricks
  • Patch 598 dependencies
2011-04-23 Owen Stephens
  • resolve issue2065: filter and give warning for any malformed boring regexs.
2012-03-31 Eric Kow
  • Replace witness CPP macros with plain Haskell in Darcs.Match
  • Replace witness CPP macros with plain Haskell in Darcs.Commands.Diff
2012-03-15 Guillaume Hoffmann
  • remove two unused functions of Darcs.SelectChanges after darcs diff optimization
  • Optimize darcs diff
2012-03-31 Eric Kow
  • Replace witness CPP macros with plain Haskell in Darcs.Commands.Move
2012-02-23 Adam Wolk
  • follow-up issue2120 : don’t redirect stderr as it loses useful output
  • resolve issue2120
2012-04-17 Owen Stephens
  • Add some Haddock to Patch.Commute
  • Reorder some definitions in Patch.Commute
  • Tidy Patch.Commute
2012-04-13 Michael Hendricks
  • Patch 775 dependencies
2012-03-31 Eric Kow
  • Remove now unused gadts.h
2012-04-13 Michael Hendricks
  • Patch 733 dependencies
2012-03-11 Owen Stephens
  • Fix some compile warnings in Commands/Move
2012-02-28 Florent Becker
  • Clean up Commands/Move.hs
2012-02-14 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • fix issue2139 test so it passes on darcs 2.5
2012-03-15 Michael Hendricks
  • Style and error message clean up for patch733
2012-02-28 Florent Becker
  • resolve issue2139: detect what to do when using darcs mv into/onto a directory
2012-02-14 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • accept issue2139: problem with darcs mv path checking
2012-03-31 Eric Kow
  • Remove GADT_WITNESSES ifdef.
  • Build Darcs once rather than thrice.
2012-04-01 Dave Love
  • Minor grammar fixes
2012-04-05 Owen Stephens
  • Fix name shadowing warning in Patch.Set
  • Use haddock links in Patch.Set
  • Use more informative identifier names in Patch.Set
  • Tidy/style Patch.Set