[darcs-users] darcs weekly news #43

Fri Oct 9 16:25:44 UTC 2009

News and discussions
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1. Work on hashed-storage, implemented by Petr and reviewed by Ganesh, was
   finally merged into the main darcs repository. Eric provided explanations
   for people who want a faster darcs now:
 * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-October/021826.html

2. Ganesh sent a patch providing a "no conflicting patch" filter to
   darcs pull, discussion ensued:
 * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-September/021642.html

3. Jason investigated on performance of the current implementation of regular
   expression handling:
 * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-October/021721.html

4. Eric talked about Summer of Code 2010 and how to raise our chances to have
   someone paid to work on darcs again next summer:
 * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-October/021761.html

Issues resolved in the last week (5)
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issue1447 mf-hcafe-15c311f0c at etc-network.de
 * different online help for send/apply --cc
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1447

issue1488 Petr Rockai
 * darcs-hs does not suffer from this.
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1488

issue1583 Eric Kow
 * on darcs get, suggest upgrading source repo to hashed.
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1583

issue1618 Kamil Dworakowski
 * 1618: preserve log on amend failure
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1618

issue1620 Kamil Dworakowski
 * amend lies about living logfile
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1620

Patches applied in the last week (108)
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2009-10-08 Ganesh Sittampalam
 - fix warnings

2009-10-08 Eric Kow
 - Fix bug in show_contents.sh test.
 - Remove redundant import of (</>).

2009-10-05 Petr Rockai
 - Resolve conflicts in Commands.Remove.
 - Resolve conflicts in Commands.Apply.
 - Resolve conflicts in Commands.AmendRecord.
 - Resolve conflicts in darcs.cabal.
 - Replace uses of readDarcsPristine with readRecorded.
 - Use --ignore-times with check to skip index check.
 - Make readRecorded independent of hashed-storage's readDarcsPristine.
 - Add a bunch of haddocks to Repository.State.
 - Resolve conflict between optimize --upgrade and optimize --pristine.
 - Resolve conflict in darcs.cabal (hashed-storage dependency).
 - Add a missing copyright notice to Darcs.Diff.

2009-09-25 Jason Dagit
 - allow State.hs to compile with type witnesses

2009-09-23 Petr Rockai
 - Clarify that empty path list means everything, restrictSubpaths.
 - Don't forget to limit pending to relevant paths, in unrecordedChanges.
 - Add Darcs.Diff and Darcs.Repository.State created in the Gorsvet refactor.
 - Remove the remnants of Gorsvet.
 - Explode Gorsvet into a number of more appropriate places.
 - Move the FooDirectory instances from Gorsvet to Darcs.IO.
 - Reformat the export list of Darcs.Repository.
 - Resolve issue1488: darcs-hs does not suffer from this.
 - Unreadable pristine ought not be fatal for repair.
 - Remove code for repair-from-checkpoint.
 - Update to latest hashed-storage API: updateIndex is global now.
 - Resolve conflict with haskell_policy -> hlint.
 - We no longer use pristine timestamps in any way.
 - Detect and fix bad index in darcs repair.
 - Drop unused import.
 - Fix up for hashed-storage API shuffling.
 - Resolve conflict (duplicate, even) with Trent.
 - Resolve conflict with Eric's cleanup.
 - Remove extraneous invalidateIndex from revert.
 - Add a --pristine option to optimize.
 - Make darcs optimize rearrange pristine.hashed when needed.
 - Fix compilation after minor hashed-storage API rename.
 - Use withDirectory to implement mInCurrentDirectory.
 - Implement index checking functionality in darcs check.
 - Adapt to the new safety-improved readIndex API.
 - Add a testcase of diffing various trailing/missing newline combinations.
 - Clean up unused bits and imports in Repository.Checkpoint.
 - Remove now-unused Darcs.Diff module.
 - Use treeDiff in external_merge instead of unsafeDiff.
 - Remove unused syncPristine from Repository.Pristine.
 - Take a Tree instead of Slurpy in external_resolution.
 - Preliminary version of the replace command with s/unsafeDiff/treeDiff/.
 - Port to new readIndex interface in hashed-storage 0.4.
 - Haddock invalidateIndex.
 - Port to generalised Tree types (mostly just signature wibbling).
 - Get rid of wait_a_moment, since we do not use pristine timestamps anymore.
 - Port to hashed-storage 0.4 Hash changes.
 - Obliterate timestamp manipulation in HashedIO.
 - Obliterate all instances of sync_repo and friends, since they are
useless now.
 - Re-implement make_remove_patch in remove command, replacing Slurps
with Trees.
 - Avoid removing in-use files on win32.
 - Remove now-unused checkPristineAgainstSlurpy.
 - Port the replay (check/repair) functionality to hashed-storage.
 - Optimize darcs show contents --match (avoid slurping pristine).
 - Proper implementation for mDoesFileExist/mDoesDirectoryExist in Gorsvet.
 - Provide readPending that also provides the "pending conflicts"
check natively.
 - Resolve conflict.
 - Clean up unused imports in WhatsNew.
 - Remove unused import from Gorsvet.
 - Invalidate the index in add_to_pending, as it was getting rebuilt too soon.
 - Clean up unused bits from Repository.Internal.
 - Move add_to_pending to Repository, use unrecordedChanges.
 - Move tentativelyMergePatches and friends to a new module, Repository.Merge.
 - Unexport get_unrecorded* from Repository, remove unused functions
from Internal.
 - Use index-based diffing in "darcs wh -l".
 - Also use index-based diffing in unrecord/obliterate.
 - Make revert use index-based diffing.
 - Use index-based diffing in unrevert.
 - Flip AmendRecord to index-based diffing, too.
 - Use index-based diffing in Remove.
 - Flip "darcs mark-conflicts" over to index-based diffing.
 - Flip "darcs changes" to index-based diffing.
 - Use index-based diffing in Record.

2009-10-07 mf-hcafe-15c311f0c at etc-network.de
 - Resolve issue1447: different online help for send/apply --cc

2009-09-23 Eric Kow
 - Resolve issue1583: on darcs get, suggest upgrading source repo to hashed.

2009-10-02 benjamin.franksen at bessy.de
 - added regression test for issue1632

2009-10-03 Trent W. Buck
 - Marginalia regarding TeX documentation.
 - Avoid fugly "tests_network-.dir".
 - Fix plurality in a docstring.
 - Mention darcs changes --repo.
 - Partially rewrite "darcs apply" help.
 - Partially rewrite "darcs annotate" help.

2009-09-30 Eric Kow
 - Also test for apply posthook in issue942.
 - Camel-case functions exported by Darcs.Patch.Choices.

2009-09-24 Kamil Dworakowski
 - resolve issue1620: amend lies about living logfile
 - camelCase clarify_errors
 - Resolve issue 1618: preserve log on amend failure
 - remove trailing whitespace
 - accept issue1618: amend should preserve the logfile
 - accept issue1620: record lies about leaving the logfile

2009-09-28 Ganesh Sittampalam
 - fix witnesses in Darcs.Commands.Remove

2009-09-28 Thorkil Naur
 - Option comments to the top in Split.hs for GHC 6.8.3

2009-09-09 Ganesh Sittampalam
 - add newly-witnessed modules to witnesses.hs
 - need RankNTypes for some of the newly witnessed modules
 - add witnesses to Darcs.Commands.Send
 - add witnesses to Darcs.Commands.Push
 - add witnesses to Darcs.Commands.Apply
 - add witnesses to Darcs.Commands.Pull
 - add witnesses to Darcs.Commands.TrackDown
 - add witnesses to Darcs.Commands.Remove
 - add witnesses to Darcs.Commands.Diff
 - improve documentation of Darcs.Patch.Split

2009-03-29 David Roundy
 - clean up types in win32/System/Posix.hs