DarcsWeeklyNews/2013-03-01

News and discussions

  1. Darcs 2.8.4 was released. It supports GHC 7.6 and fixes get --tag:

  2. Here is the report from the 8th darcs hacking sprint:

Issues resolved in the last week (6)

issue904 Nathaniel Filardo
issue2155 Dave Love
issue2270 Sebastian Fischer
issue2277 Radoslav Dorcik
issue2282 Ganesh Sittampalam
issue2287 Radoslav Dorcik

Patches applied in the last week (77)

2013-02-21 Guillaume Hoffmann
  • use many-files premade repos in get-http-packed tests to go faster
  • reintroduce DARCS_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT doc, talk about undocumented env vars
2013-02-18 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • rename FileMod -> [Patch]Index
2013-02-20 Guillaume Hoffmann
  • haddock for commandCommand AbsolutePath arguments
2013-02-18 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • work around missing feature in haddock
2013-02-17 Guillaume Hoffmann
  • make README.test_maintainers.txt point to the appropriate wiki page
  • tests: check if darcs-1 in .darcs/defaults instead of hashed, and no longer check OF
  • rm testing old-fashioned repo with checkpoint, since what we test already fails because it’s OF
  • display error message when using init –hashed
  • darcs-test UI: print Darcs1 in place of Hashed
  • fix tests after changing –hashed into –darcs-1
  • rename init –hashed into init –darcs-1
2013-02-17 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • a bit of code tidying in Darcs.UI.Commands.Rebase
2013-02-16 Radoslav Dorcik
  • Resolve issue2277: rebase suspend and unsuspend supports –summary.
2013-02-16 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • tidy imports in Darcs.UI.Commands.Rebase
  • make rebase reify/inject hidden
  • get rid of withGutsOf which is now redundant
2013-02-16 Guillaume Hoffmann
  • document DARCS_GET_FOO and DARCS_APPLY_FOO
  • include patterns help to help markdown output
  • fix markdown and titles in help markdown
  • DARCS_SLOPPY_LOCKS help
2013-02-16 Radoslav Dorcik
  • include environment variables in darcs help markdown output.
  • Ressurection of environment vars desciption from the manual.
2013-02-15 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • add a few more tests of darcs changes with moved files
  • cosmetic cleanups: remove unnecessary -A in test script and trailing whitespace
  • Windows fix for issue2270 test
2013-02-10 Sebastian Fischer
  • resolve issue2270: fixed darcs changes -i –only-to-files
  • added tests for issue 2270
2013-02-16 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • issue1932 test: we can still test the remote parts on Windows
  • TAG 2.9.7
  • issue1932 test can’t possibly work on Windows
  • need different path separator on Windows
  • add missing -DWIN32 for test harness
  • bump version to 2.9.7
2012-12-21 Owen Stephens
  • Improve error message for bad match patterns
  • Rename a test
2013-02-16 Radoslav Dorcik
  • facility for getting unique path name based on base name (_)
2013-02-16 Guillaume Hoffmann
  • reintroduce missing when
2013-02-16 Radoslav Dorcik
  • test for issue2287 is successful.
  • Resolve issue2287: obliterate -O doesn’t overwrite existing file.
2013-01-15 Guillaume Hoffmann
  • Remove FixFilePath from DarcsFlag
2013-02-16 Radoslav Dorcik
  • Get command uses new unique name facility.
  • Add failing test for issue2287
2013-02-16 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • resolve issue2282: don’t allow remote operations to copy the rebase patch
2013-02-16 Owen Stephens
  • Accept issue2256 - diff with empty arg string causes failure in updateIndex
2013-02-15 Guillaume Hoffmann
  • fix network tests that did not find the right darcs executable
  • update lazy-get.sh test to an existing small remote repo
2008-07-11 Nathaniel Filardo
  • Resolve issue904: Fix record on Linux/FUSE/sshfs (fall back to sloppy locks automatically)
2013-01-18 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • import encoding code from haskeline: cabal changes
  • import encoding code from haskeline: switch over
  • ROLLBACK: use bytestring-handle instead of haskeline for encoding
  • use bytestring-handle instead of haskeline for encoding
  • import encoding code from haskeline: Setup.lhs changes
  • add copyright notices for the imported haskeline code
  • import encoding code from haskeline: move source into Darcs.Util
  • import encoding code from haskeline: source files
  • bump unix dependency
  • bump network dependency
  • bump containers dependency
  • bump directory dependency
  • bump bytestring dependency
  • support GHC 7.6 / base 4.6
2013-02-14 Radoslav Dorcik
  • Add failing test for issue1579
2012-12-30 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • print out locale encoding when running tests
  • fix copy-and-paste error in filterOutConflicts refactoring
2013-01-12 Guillaume Hoffmann
  • move filterOutConflicts from UI.SelectChanges to Repository.State
  • rollback patch index creation code at repo init
  • fix repo init message by moving it to UI code
  • make darcs init print a confirmation message when successful
  • hlint Repository
  • inline goToChosenVersion into copyRepoAndGoToChosenVersion
  • inline copyRepository into copyRepoAndGoToChosenVersion
  • move repository cloning code from UI.Commands.Get to Repository
2012-12-16 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • recent test-framework seems to require Typeable
2013-01-13 Dave Love
  • Resolve issue2155: Expurgate the non-functional annotate –xml-output option
2013-01-08 Owen Stephens
  • Add some trivial haddocks to V1/Commute
2013-01-04 Guillaume Hoffmann
  • remove empty Crypt directory