DarcsWeeklyNews/2010-06-28
News and discussions
Reinier announced the release schedule of Darcs 2.5 (soft freeze July 8th, release August 7th):
Reiner also issued a call for volunteers for fixing unassigned bugs that should be fixed for the next release:
Eric explained how to make the patch reviewing process more efficient:
And the Sumer of Code blog posts of the last two weeks:
Issues resolved in the last week (7)
- issue1176 Adolfo Builes
- 1176: caches interfere with –remote-repo flag
- http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1176
- issue1277 Eric Kow
- percolate repository format errors correctly.
- http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1277
- issue1389 Reinier Lamers
- Change predist pref to point people to use ‘cabal sdist’
- http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1389
- issue1713 Eric Kow
- shorter interactive prompts.
- http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1713
- issue1857 Petr Rockai
- Use and update pristine root pointer upon conversion.
- http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1857
- issue1877 Florent Becker
- make pull –dry-run –xml terse
- http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1877
- issue1879 Eric Kow
- notice unexpected commute failure on merge.
- http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1879
Patches applied in the last week (53)
- 2010-06-21 Eric Kow
- Generalise mechanism for distinguishing between bad and non repos.
- Extend issue1277 test for more prerequisites.
- Resolve issue1277: percolate repository format errors correctly.
- Accept issue1277: darcs repository format errors not reported in add.
- 2010-06-26 Petr Rockai
- Allow BL.readFile through haskell_policy for now.
- Fix witnesses after Alexey’s optimize –http work.
- 2010-06-24 Alexey Levan
- Implement darcs optimize –http
- Create a function for lazy fetching of files
- Refactor Darcs.Repository.copyInventory (consistent naming)
- Add –http flag for optimize
- 2010-06-25 Petr Rockai
- Fix underquoted get.sh…
- 2010-06-11 Eric Kow
- More robust distinction between basic and advanced chars in prompt.
- Resolve issue1713: shorter interactive prompts.
- Make promptCharFancy easier to extend.
- Camel case Darcs.SelectChanges.
- Rename Darcs.Utils.promptCharFancy to promptChar.
- 2010-06-23 Petr Rockai
- Accept issue1865: cover the interaction of get –context with tags.
- 2010-06-23 Eric Kow
- Mark issue1610 test as failing again (like it should be).
- Resolve issue1879: notice unexpected commute failure on merge.
- Accept issue1879: failing to notice unexpected commute failure.
- 2010-06-07 Petr Rockai
- Make partitionFL do a 3-way split, and detect commutation bugs in Depends.
- 2010-06-23 Eric Kow
- Fix progress message in tentativelyMergePatches.
- Clarify merge2FL haddock.
- 2010-06-07 Petr Rockai
- Use merge2FL instead of plain merge in tentativelMergePatches.
- 2010-06-22 Ganesh Sittampalam
- fix witnesses
- 2010-06-22 Florent Becker
- use shell negation properly in issue1877 test
- 2010-06-22 Eric Kow
- Mark issue1877 test as passing.
- 2010-06-22 Florent Becker
- resolve issue1877: make pull –dry-run –xml terse
- 2010-06-08 Adolfo Builes
- Added test for issue 1503: prefer local caches to remote ones
- 2010-06-21 Eric Kow
- Remove trailing whitespaces in test helper code.
- Remove trailing whitespaces in Darcs.Witnesses.Ordered.
- Remove trailing whitespaces in Darcs.Test.Patch.Check.
- Remove trailing whitespace in src/Darcs/*
- Remove trailing whitespace in src/*
- Remove trailing whitespace in date matching code.
- Remove trailing whitespace in Darcs.Repository and submodules.
- Remove trailing whitespace in Darcs.Patch and submodules.
- Remove trailing whitespace in Darcs.Commands and submodules.
- 2010-06-20 Lele Gaifax
- Failing test for issue1877: pull –xml-output should not emit any verbosity
- 2010-06-18 Eric Kow
- Slightly more aggresive and extendable issue1763 test.
- Bug fix: treat filenames in darcs-2 patches as raw bytes.
- Bug fix: inverse conflictors should also use raw bytes for filenames.
- 2010-06-15 Reinier Lamers
- resolve issue1389: Change predist pref to point people to use ‘cabal sdist’
- 2010-06-17 Eric Kow
- Tweak haddock markup.
- 2010-06-16 Adolfo Builes
- Remove duplicated entries after any modification is done to the cache
- Resolve issue 1176: caches interfere with –remote-repo flag
- 2010-06-15 Eric Kow
- Generalise mechanism for updating roundup.
- 2010-06-14 Adolfo Builes
- Checking for any cache entry in test for issue1210
- 2010-06-11 Florent Becker
- Make the tests for dont-prompt-deps use -i
- 2010-06-14 Adolfo Builes
- Drop global cache entries from _darcs/prefs/sources
- 2010-06-07 Petr Rockai
- Check conflictor consistency in “darcs check”.
- Resolve issue1857: Use and update pristine root pointer upon conversion.
- 2010-06-13 Eric Kow
- Make it possible to optionally set roundup status on command line.