[darcs-users] darcs weekly news #69

[Guillaume Hoffmann]

News and discussions
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1. darcs 2.5 beta 2 was released. Give it a try!

   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-July/024642.html

2. Reinier explained why beta 3 will have to wait a little:

   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-August/024681.html

3. Joachim "nomeata" Breitner released a ipatch, a tool based on darcs'
   hunk editing feature:

   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-August/024699.html
   * https://www.joachim-breitner.de/blog/archives/425-ipatch,-the-interactive-patch-editor.html

4. Two more blog posts from our Summer of Code students Adolfo and Alexey:

   * http://abuiles.blogspot.com/2010/07/gsoc-week-9.html
   * http://darcs-gsoc2010.blogspot.com/2010/08/gsoc-2010-progress-report-2.html



Issues resolved in the last week (2)
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issue1888 Petr Rockai
 * fix changes --context.
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1888

issue1892 Petr Rockai
 * Improve safety of makeBundle* and fix a couple of related bugs.
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1892


Patches applied in the last week (38)
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2010-08-06 Petr Rockai
 - Undo an edit to the issue1829 test, since the original was clearer.
 - Add a test for issue1829 by Ganesh & Ian.

2010-07-18 Eric Kow
 - Cut functions Darcs.Utils.putStrLnError and putDocLnError.
 - Tidy Darcs.Utils exports.

2010-08-05 Guillaume Hoffmann
 - switch homepage to two-column format ala xmonad.org

2010-08-06 Petr Rockai
 - Remove a couple of redundant type variables from foralls.

2010-08-05 Eric Kow
 - Accept issue1290: darcs diff --index support.
 - Fix missing type signature in Darcs.Arguments.
 - Fix warnings in Darcs.Repository.State.
 - Fix warnings in Darcs.Repository.InternalTypes.
 - Fix warnings in Darcs.Repository.HashedIO.
 - Fix warnings in Darcs.Repository.DarcsRepo.
 - Fix warnings in Darcs.Patch.Prim.
 - Fix redundant import warning in Darcs.Patch.Patchy.
 - Fix redundant imports in Darcs.Patch.Commute.
 - Fix shadow warning in Darcs.Patch.Choices.
 - Fix redundant imports in Darcs.Patch.Apply.
 - Fix RemoteDarcs related imports warning in Darcs.Flags and Darcs.RemoteApply.
 - Fix deprecation warning on GHC.Handle in Exec module.

2010-07-15 Petr Rockai
 - Resolve issue1892: Improve safety of makeBundle* and fix a couple
of related bugs.
 - Re-enable packs and optimize --http.

2010-08-02 Alexey Levan
 - Minimize the number of packed inventories
 - Use cache while getting a packed repository
 - Hardlink files while getting a packed repository

2010-08-03 Joachim Breitner
 - Export usageHelper

2010-08-03 Adolfo Builes
 - Add pronoun to english module

2010-08-03 Joachim Breitner
 - Make Darcs.RunCommand independent of Darcs.Commands.Help

2010-07-24 Adolfo Builes
 - Handle English nouns that end in y.

2010-08-02 Reinier Lamers
 - Remove unused imports in Darcs.Commands.Changes

2010-07-29 Petr Rockai
 - Resolve issue1888: fix changes --context.
 - Make the "error applying hunk" error a lot more readable (and useful).

2010-07-18 Eric Kow
 - Haddock promptYorn.
 - Add header to issue1790 test and make it follow convention more.
 - Accept issue1790: darcs send --context foo
 - Modernise System.Cmd import in Distribution.ShellHarness.

2010-07-26 Eric Kow
 - Disable optimize --http for Darcs 2.5 release.
 - Disable packs for darcs 2.5.

2010-07-26 Eric Kow
 - Restore looking for version number in exact-version context dump.