[darcs-users] darcs weekly news #31

[Guillaume Hoffmann]

News and discussions
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1. Juliusz Chroboczek released a new stable version of vc-darcs.el,
   a darcs plugin for Emacs:
 * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-June/020042.html

2. An update from Petr Rockai's Summer of Code :
   ``The hashed-storage patches have started to trickle into mainline darcs"
 * http://web.mornfall.net/blog/soc_progress_2.html

3. Eric Kow launched a call for volunteers to help reviewing the
   hashed-storage module developed by Pietr during his SoC work:
 * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-June/020052.html


Issues resolved in the last week (2)
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issue1343 Trent W. Buck
 * mention darcs-users is subscriber-only, use --from.
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1343

issue1465 Trent W. Buck
 * ortryrunning should check error code.
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1465


Patches applied in the last week (35)
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2009-06-01 Petr Rockai
 - Remove tentativelyMerge from Gorsvet, as it's unused and confusing.

2009-05-25 Trent W. Buck
 - Churn: appease hlint.

2009-06-01 Petr Rockai
 - Drop extra parens.
 - Also invalidateIndex in Revert and Remove.

2009-06-01 Eric Kow
 - Check for hashed-storage in autoconf build.

2009-06-01 Petr Rockai
 - Fix witnesses in Darcs.Gorsvet.
 - Take a list of paths in unrecordedChanges instead of Tree transform.
 - Fix Tree restriction in various cases of unrecordedChanges.
 - Provide a restrictBoring (like restrictSubpaths) in Darcs.Gorsvet.
 - Factor out a separate boring_regexps in Darcs.Repository.Prefs.
 - Fix the path restriction versus pending renames in unrecordedChanges.
 - Pass options to unrecordedChanges and handle LookForAdds and IgnoreTimes.
 - Use index for diffing in the basic whatsnew scenario.
 - Invalidate index at key positions in relevant (pristine-modifying) commands.

2009-05-31 Reinier Lamers
 - Add options for QuickCheck replaying and test selection to unit
 - Resolve conflict with Trent's help fix
 - Split Test.Runner into a backend and a driver module
 - Move argument parsing and interaction from unit.lhs to Test.Runner

2009-05-23 Trent W. Buck
 - Resolve issue1343: mention darcs-users is subscriber-only, use --from.
 - Resolve issue1465: ortryrunning should check error code.

2009-05-29 Florian Gilcher
 - Test for Issue 1473 (darcs annotate misbehaves)

2009-05-29 Petr Rockai
 - Version the build dependency on hashed-storage.
 - Build the list of diffs in one go in treeDiff (and sort rmdirs correctly).
 - Fix the (fiddly) empty file diffing business in treeDiff.
 - Clean up imports in Darcs.Gorsvet a little.
 - Add a copyright header to Darcs.Gorsvet.
 - Bomb out from unrecordedChanges when pending is buggy.
 - Implement basic index maintenance functionality.
 - Disable restriction in unrecordedChanges for now (less efficient
but correct).
 - Appease haskell_policy. (Sigh.)
 - Make the trailing newline shuffling in treeDiff a little less fragile.
 - Convenience wrapper for restrict_paths for use in Darcs.
 - Kill a bunch of unused imports.
 - Handle adds and removals in treeDiff.
 - Import relevant bits of gorsvet, for now under Darcs.Gorsvet.