[darcs-users] darcs 2.0.1 AND 2.0.2 released! (Changes?)

Eric Kow eric.kow at gmail.com
Fri Jul 25 08:56:40 UTC 2008


Here's the relevant chunk of ChangeLog

> For those that don't keep a fresh darcs check-out, could some post
> the Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.2?

darcs (2.0.2)

 -- David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net>  Sun, 24 Jun 2008 01:20:41 GMT

darcs (2.0.1)

 -- David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net>  Sun, 23 Jun 2008 21:47:07 GMT

  * New Feature: Include patch count in darcs --version, for example, 2.0.1 (+
    32 patches) (David Roundy)

  * Bug Fix and New Feature: Improved XML output (Benjamin Franksen, Lele
    Gaifax, David Roundy)

  * User Experience: Always darcs send with context, as if --unified flag were
    used (David Roundy)

  * Bug Fix: Avoid an error caused by renaming a file on case-insensitive
    file-systems (Eric Kow)

darcs (2.0.1rc2)

 -- David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net>  Sun, 13 Jun 2008 01:17:45 GMT

  * Performance: Faster strings, using Data.Bytestring by default (Gwern
    Branwen, Eric Kow, Ian Lynagh, David Roundy)

  * New Feature: darcs put --no-set-default and --set-default (Nicolas
    Pouillard)

  * User Experience: On Windows, use MS-DOS 'edit' as a default editor if
    Emacs and friends are not available (Eric Kow)

  * Bug Fix: On Windows, notice when external programs fail to launch because
    they do not exist (Eric Kow)

darcs (2.0.1rc1)

 -- David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net>  Sun, 03 Jun 2008 12:43:31 GMT

  * Bug Fix: Fix tag --checkpoint so that darcs get --partial can avoid
    fetching all patches (issue873, David Roundy)

  * User Experience: Better progress reporting [NB: darcs is now compiled with
    threaded runtime by default] (issue739, David Roundy, Bertram Felgenhauer)

  * Performance: Reduce memory usage of darcs put (David Roundy)

  * Bug Fix: Improved date matching (issue793, issue187, Eric Kow)

  * Performance: Fix an optimization in diff-detection (affects darcs whatsnew
    and record) (Pekka Pessi)

  * Quality Assurance: --enable-hpc for checking program coverage (Christopher
    Lane Hinson)

  * Bug Fix: Make it possible to --dry-run on repositories we cannot write to
    (issue855, Eric Kow, David Roundy)

  * Bug Fix: Avoid a race condition caused by cleaning out the pristine cache
    (issue687, David Roundy)

  * Bug Fix: Do not rollback if no primitive patches were selected (issue870,
    Eric Kow)

  * User Experience: When pushing, prints a small reminder when the remote
    repository has patches to pull (Eric Kow, David Roundy)

  * UI changes: --extended-help is now called --overview, no more
    --verify-hash, no more send --unified (David Roundy, Eric Kow)

  * User Experience: Show ssh's stderr output in case it wants to ask the user
    something (issue845, Eric Kow)

  * Bug Fix: Improved interaction with pager (David Roundy, Pekka Pessi, Eric
    Kow)

  * Bug Fix: darcs send -o - (Pekka Pessi)

  * Bug Fix: (regression) Re-enable darcs mv as a means of informing darcs
    about manual renames (issue803, David Roundy)

  * Bug Fix: Fix bugs related to use of threaded runtime (issue776, David
    Roundy)

  * Portability: Respect OS conventions in creation of temporary files (Eric
    Kow)

  * New Feature: Check for and repair patches which remove non-empty files
    (issue815, David Roundy)

  * Bug Fix: Make get --to-match work with hashed repositories (David Roundy)

  * Bug Fix: Conflict-handling with darcs-2 semantics (issue817, David Roundy)

  * Bug Fix: Make --ask-deps ask the right questions (Tommy Pettersson)

  * User Experience: Improved error messages and warnings (issue245, issue371,
    Nicolas Pouillard, David Roundy, Eric Kow)

  * New Feature: darcs trackdown --set-scripts-executable (Reinier Lamers)

  * Quality Assurance: Various improvements to documentation (issue76,
    issue809, Gwern Branwen, Lele Gaifax, Eric Kow, Nicolas Pouillard, David
    Roundy)

  * Bug Fix: Correct detection of incompatibility with future darcs (issue794,
    Eric Kow)

  * User Experience: Make darcs changes --interactive behave more like other
    interactive commands (Eric Kow)

  * Performance: Optimized handling of very large files (Gwern Branwen)

  * New Feature: Colorize added and removed lines, if the environment variable
    DARCS_DO_COLOR_LINES=True (Nicolas Pouillard)

  * New Feature: --remote-repodir flag to allow separate default repositories
    for push, pull and send (issue792, Eric Kow)

  * Performance: Optimized get --to-match handling for darcs 1 repositories
    (Reinier Lamers)

  * Bug Fix: Make changes --repo work when not in a repository (David Roundy)

  * New Feature: darcs changes --count (David Roundy)

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