DarcsWeeklyNews/2010-09-13

News and discussions

  1. Darcs 2.5 beta 5 was released:

  2. Eric put online a series of videos (~1h) explaining the sate of darcs in 2010 (adapted from his recent talk in AngloHaskell 2010):

  3. Petr released darcs-fastconvert, a tool that helps converting darcs and git repositories in both directions:

  4. Jason asked for feedback about his proposition for darcs to uniquely identify the state of a repository by a hash:

  5. Petr kicked off his ``adventure’’ branch, a long-lived public branch of darcs he will use to make disruptive changes in the codebase:

  6. Ganesh proposed to used a ``submitted’’ public branch to help developers share they work and deal with the reviewing process more smoothly:

Issues resolved in the last 3 weeks (2)

issue1884 Alexey Levan
issue1942 Petr Rockai

Patches applied in the last 3 weeks (140)

2010-09-13 Eric Kow
  • Mark ssh test as skipped if REMOTE is not set.
  • Move external and ssh tests to network directory.
2010-08-29 Petr Rockai
  • Make the tests a bit less verbose (do not print all of lib every time).
  • Set a $format variable in lib, depending on current repo format under test.
2010-09-08 Eric Kow
  • Accept issue1951: add outside of current repository.
2010-09-03 Petr Rockai
  • Resolve yet another darcs.cabal conflict.
2010-08-28 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • drop unnecessary import
  • move Darcs.Patch.Properties to Darcs.Test.Patch.Properties
  • break up Darcs.Patch.Patchy and make Darcs.Patch.Named more self-contained
  • drop unnecessary import
  • drop unnecessary superclass
  • fix warning in Darcs.Test.Email
  • fix warning in Darcs.Test.Patch.Info
  • drop unnecessary constraint
  • remove commented out imports
  • remove unnecessary pragmas from Darcs.Patch.Match
  • remove unused import
2010-09-07 Eric Kow
  • Fix misleading configuration documentation.
2010-09-05 Reinier Lamers
  • TAG 2.4.98.5
  • Bump version number to 2.4.98.5
2010-08-30 Eric Kow
  • Clean up trackdown –bisect documentation.
2010-09-01 Iago Abal
  • remove –index option from matchOneNontag because issue1926
2010-09-04 Petr Rockai
  • Resolve issue1942: Fix an IO interleaving bug in old-fashioned readRepo.
2010-08-25 Dmitry Astapov
  • Accept issue1932: darcs add -qr . should not fail on filenames with ‘:’
2010-09-04 Eric Kow
  • Document Darcs.Patch.Info.makeFilename.
2010-09-03 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • add some haddock to Darcs.Witnesses.Eq
  • drop unused concatReverseFL
  • drop unused headRL
  • drop unsafeMap_l2f
  • drop unused filterE/Proof
2010-09-03 Alexey Levan
  • Resolve issue1884: correct report about getting lazy repository
  • Redefine Darcs.Commands.putInfo in Darcs.Repository
2010-09-03 Eric Kow
  • Remove now-superfluous cleanup step from EXAMPLE.sh
2010-09-02 Petr Rockai
  • Use lib in tests/issue257.sh.
  • Remove the now-defunct Distribution directory.
  • Add a tarball of a small oldfashioned repository for testing purposes.
  • Update haddock.
  • Use more meaningful names for seal_up_patches’ parameters.
  • Wibble path building in Repository.Prefs.
2010-09-02 Eric Kow
  • Document cultural reference in Darcs.Witnesses.WZipper.
  • Jot down a few more tips about testing.
  • Add MIT boilerplate to all public domain scripts.
  • Update issue1503 network test for new harness.
2010-09-02 Petr Rockai
  • Propagate the exit code of darcs-test to exit code of cabal test.
  • Allow “output=plain” to be passed to cabal test.
2010-09-02 Eric Kow
  • Suppress check for darcs-test in Setup.
  • More portable executable names in Setup.
  • Update cabal file for new test-support paths.
  • Fix conflicts between darcs-test enabling and other cabal patches.
2010-08-29 Petr Rockai
  • Drop the “test” cabal flag and build darcs-test unconditionally.
  • Fix a bug in cabal test argument parsing.
  • Make it possible to pass “threads=N” to cabal test.
2010-09-02 Eric Kow
  • Replace some developer links with a wiki page.
  • Nicer patch counting mechanism for buildbot-try.
  • Use unified diff for copying unrecorded changes in buildbot-try.
  • Wrap buildbot-try with ssh-agent.
2010-09-02 Jason Dagit
  • URL.hs: fix a typo in import list
2010-08-25 Dmitry Astapov
  • Fix for issue1932
2010-08-29 Petr Rockai
  • Bump shellish dependency to >= 0.1.1, to avoid the infinite loop in rm_rf problem.
  • Flip “cabal test” over to use darcs-test to run the shell tests.
  • Add a –network option to darcs-test to run the network shell tests.
  • Couple of improvements in the new shell test runner.
  • Implement a test-framework-based shell harness.
2010-08-22 Guillaume Hoffmann
  • send prints remote address right away
2010-08-12 Eric Kow
  • Use long titles for more stable URLs in user manual.
2010-08-22 Jason Dagit
  • Changes.lhs: remove extra (and weird) case
  • TheComands.hs: fix prelude import
2010-08-28 Eric Kow
  • Fix conflict between base and hashed-storage deps.
  • Remove PatternSignatures as we currently require GHC 6.10 and up.
  • Document GHC 6.10 dependency.
  • Raise base package dependency to >= 4 (keeping it < 5).
2010-08-24 Petr Rockai
  • Relax the hashed-storage dependency (to >= 0.5.2 && < 0.6).
2010-08-27 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • add missing V2.hs
  • move some Patchy instances into a separate file
  • don’t export Patch/RealPatch from Darcs.Patch
  • split up the Commute class
  • get rid of unnecessary superclass
  • drop some exports from Darcs.Patch
  • break Patch-specific bits of Show and Viewing out into V1
  • get rid of apparently unnecessary instance dependency
  • move v1 Patch applying into separate module
  • move v1 Patch reading into separate module
  • Darcs.Patch.Core now just contains Named
  • move Named instances out of V1.Commute
  • move Darcs.Patch.Commute into V1 namespace
  • move RealPatch into its own namespace
  • remove unused re-export
  • start on moving v1 patch code into its own namespace
  • fix warnings in Darcs.SelectChanges
  • fix warnings in Darcs.Commands.Apply
  • fix warnings in Darcs.Witnesses.Ordered
  • fix warning in Darcs.Repository.Repair
  • fix warning in Darcs.Patch.Depends
  • fix warning in Darcs.Patch.Choices
  • fix warnings in Darcs.Commands.Send
  • fix warnings in Darcs.Commands.Record
  • fix warnings in Darcs.Commands.Push
  • fix warnings in Darcs.Commands.Pull
  • fix warnings in tests
2010-08-25 Jason Dagit
  • Depends.hs: add back catch all case to silence warning
2010-08-26 Eric Kow
  • Fix issue1926 headers.
2010-08-20 Iago Abal
  • Accept issue1926: amend-record ignores –index option.
2010-08-26 Eric Kow
  • Avoid cascading permissions error in issue612 test.
2010-08-25 Jason Dagit
  • fix unit test imports
  • clean up Witnesses imports across codebase
  • ArgumentDefaults.lhs: fix warnings
  • Commands/Put.lhs: fix warnings
  • Commands/Pull.lhs: fix warnings
  • Commands/Unrevert.lhs: remove redundant imports
  • Commands/Unrecord.lhs: fix warnings
  • Commands/Send.lhs: remove redundant imports
  • Commands/Record.lhs: remove redundant imports
  • Commands/Apply.lhs: fix warnings
  • SelectChanges.hs: fix warnings
  • Annotate.lhs: remove redundant imports
  • Population.hs: remove redundant imports
  • ShowFiles.lhs: rename shadowed binding
  • Get.lhs: remove redundant import
  • Commands/Diff.lhs: remove redundant import
  • Match.lhs: remove redundant imports
  • WhatsNew.lhs: fix warnings
  • HashedRepo.hs: clean up imports to fix warnings
  • splitout parts of Darcs.Witnesses into new modules
  • TrackDown.lhs: fix warnings
  • ShowAuthors.lhs: remove redundant import
  • MarkConflicts.hs: rename shadowed binding
  • Convert.lhs: remove redundant import
  • Repository.hs: remove unused binding
  • Merge.hs: remove redundant import
  • Checkpoint.hs: remove redundant imports
  • Internal.hs: remove warnings
  • Info.hs: remove redundant imports
  • URL.hs: fix warning about conditional import of debugFail
  • Diff.hs: remove unused bindings
  • ReadMonads.hs: remove unused lexStrings
  • Global.hs: remove import to fix warning
  • move dropWhileFL to Ordered.hs
  • move dropWhileRL to Ordered.hs
2010-08-25 Eric Kow
  • Accept issue1931: Fix issue612 test and mark it as failing.
  • Modernise issue612 test (use exit 200 to skip).