[darcs-users] darcs weekly news #46

[Guillaume Hoffmann]

News and discussions
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1. The third darcs hacking sprint happened last weekend in Vienna and
   Portland! An extensive report will be posted here soon.
   As a teaser of all the work done, here is a draft implementation of
   trackdown --bisect written in Vienna by Matthias Fischmann:

   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-November/022251.html
   * http://wiki.darcs.net/Sprints/2009-11

2. Eric proposed to add Florent Becker to the review team:

   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-November/022270.html

3. Still working on making patch metadata in UTF8 happen, Reinier is dealing
   with haskell package version issues for the 2.4 release:

   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-November/022283.html

Issues resolved in the last week (6)
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issue540 quiark at centrum.cz
 * darcs remove --recursive
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue540

issue1122 David Markvica
 * get --complete should not offer to create a lazy repository
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1122

issue1224 caitt at users.sourceforge.net
 * refuse to convert a repo that's already in darcs-2 format.
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1224

issue1636 Kamil Dworakowski
 * match hunk
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1636

issue1643 Christian Berrer
 * optimize --upgrade should do optimize
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1643

issue1659 Petr Rockai
 * Make restrictBoring take recorded state into account.
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1659


Patches applied in the last week (34)
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2009-11-16 Petr Rockai
 - Drop Commands.Remove from witnesses for now.

2009-11-03 Eric Kow
 - Updates to thank-you page: ilbot, donors, tweaks.

2009-11-15 quiark at centrum.cz
 - Resolve issue540: darcs remove --recursive
 - Remove does not fail only warns on already removed or not added files.

2009-11-15 Joachim Breitner
 - hlint error: Use first instead of ***

2009-11-15 Christian Berrer
 - resolve issue1643: optimize --upgrade should do optimize

2009-11-15 David Markvica
 - resolve issue1122: get --complete should not offer to create a lazy
repository

2009-11-15 Petr Rockai
 - Fix a missing import after rushing a push of a hlint fix.

2009-11-15 Joachim Breitner
 - hlint warning: Use isPrefixOf
 - hlint: span instead of break

2009-11-15 Eric Kow
 - Rollback Kim's test harness improvements. :-(

2009-11-14 Kim Wallmark
 - Annotate long-running tests to make optimization easier.

2009-11-15 Eric Kow
 - Add a section title to distinguish darcs stuff from standard boring.

2009-11-14 Petr Rockai
 - Use a custom boring file to get rid of tests-* and friends.

2009-11-14 Luca Molteni
 - little fix with hlint - changed map to all

2009-11-15 Petr Rockai
 - Add a comment to the performGC workaround in amNotInRepository function.

2009-11-14 Salvatore Insalaco
 - Workaround a System.Directory.createDirectory issue.

2009-11-14 caitt at users.sourceforge.net
 - Resolve issue1224: refuse to convert a repo that's already in darcs-2 format.

2009-11-14 Petr Rockai
 - Bump the hashed-storage dependency to >= 0.4.2.

2009-11-14 Benedikt Schmidt
 - fix -Wall warnings

2009-11-14 quiark at centrum.cz
 - Issue 1500: Providing more informative message about the nature of
progress numbers.

2009-11-14 Kamil Dworakowski
 - test fix for OSX

2009-11-14 Benedikt Huber
 - HLint test: new comment syntax, new ignored warnings

2009-10-25 Kamil Dworakowski
 - resolve issue1636: match hunk
 - accept issue1636 match hunk
 - remove trailing whitespace

2009-11-05 Petr Rockai
 - Resolve issue1659: Make restrictBoring take recorded state into account.

2009-10-31 Eric Kow
 - Camel-case functions exported by Darcs.Repository.Prefs (and some more).
 - Haddock Darcs.Patch.Non addP and addPs.
 - Haddock the Darcs.Patch.Commute class a little bit.

2009-10-24 Petr Rockai
 - Obliterate replacePristineFromSlurpy (prefer replacePristine).
 - Fix a number of unused import warnings.
 - Leverage replacePristine in optimize --pristine implementation.
 - Fix replacePristine implementation on hashed repositories.