[darcs-users] darcs weekly news #61

Sun May 9 22:43:43 UTC 2010

News and discussions
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1. Eric announced the release of darcs 2.4.3, which fixes critical bugs under
   Windows and fixes the performance regression of darcs convert:

   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-May/023972.html
   * http://wiki.darcs.net/Releases/2.4
   * http://wiki.darcs.net/Binaries

2. Simon Michael proposed a cleanup of the repository format names
   and gathered a few answers and proposals:

  * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-May/023936.html
  * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-May/023969.html

3. Ganesh and Petr explained why it is not recommended anymore to build darcs
   with GHC 6.8:

  * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-April/023774.html
  * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-April/023776.html
  * http://wiki.darcs.net/Debian

Issues resolved in the last week (7)
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issue64 Reinier Lamers
 * store metadata as UTF-8, autodetect UTF-8, and don't normalize to NFC
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue64

issue1232 Dino Morelli
 * darcs convert forgets _darcs/prefs/prefs
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1232

issue1760 Petr Rockai
 * Fix working directory handling in Commands.Convert.
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1760

issue1769 Matthias Kilian
 * add support for --match 'comment ...'
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1769

issue1814 Petr Rockai
 * Include contrib/darcs-errors.hlint in release tarball.
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1814

issue1824 Eric Kow
 * avoid PACKAGE_VERSION under Windows.
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1824

issue1837 Petr Rockai
 * Add readWorking and use it in pristineFromWorking.
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1837

Patches applied in the last week (115)
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2010-05-09 Eric Kow
 - Update homepage news for darcs 2.4.3 release.
 - Update website to link to 2.4.3 tarball.
 - The roundup tracker does not use a guest/guest login.

2010-05-08 Petr Rockai
 - Fix a number of "unused" warnings in Darcs.Commands.*.
 - Fix a number of "unused" warnings in Darcs.Repository*.
 - A new implementation of PatchSet and its operations.
 - Give a more informative error when hunk apply fails.

2010-05-08 Jason Dagit
 - work around cabal flag composition bug

2010-05-07 Eric Kow
 - Camel case Darcs.Test.
 - Camel case Darcs.Commands.ShowFiles.
 - Mark issue1837 test as passing.
 - Accept issue1837: inconsistent repo upon darcs get --partial.

2010-05-06 Petr Rockai
 - Also use readWorking in setScriptsExecutable (minor refactor).
 - Resolve issue1837: Add readWorking and use it in pristineFromWorking.
 - In replacePristine, cope also with Trees that have no hashes in them.

2010-05-07 Eric Kow
 - Remove seemingly unused Darcs.CheckFileSystem.

2010-05-06 Petr Rockai
 - Remove unorm.h dependency on Windows, since it's no longer used.
 - Remove the icuuc dependency now that it is no longer used.
 - Fix compilation on GHC 6.12 on win32 (needs unix-compat).
 - Normalise path separators in the query_manifest test.
 - Let's try to fix install-deps.sh for the case of multiple packages missing.
 - Bump hashed-storage dependency to 0.5.
 - Purge Slurpy usage in Commands.Rollback (use announceFiles from whatsnew).
 - Use stock setScriptsExecutable from Darcs.Repository in Commands.Convert.
 - Clean up unused bits in Repository.HashedIO.
 - Make clean_hashdir work on repository-local dirs even without caches.
 - Resolve conflict in Commands.Record.
 - Resolve conflicts in Commands.Add.
 - Resolve conflicts in Match.
 - Resolve conflict in Commands.Move.
 - Resolve conflicts in Repository.Internal.
 - Resolve conflicts in Commands.ShowFiles.
 - Filter out _darcs in setScriptsExecutable.
 - Make the automatic pristine conversion a bit nicer.
 - Bump the mmap dependency to match that of hashed-storage HEAD.
 - Remove a couple of unused Cache parameters.
 - Automatically drop size prefixes from all of pristine when needed.
 - Purge unused fileExists from Commands.Record.
 - Avoid use of SlurpDirectory in Commands.ShowFiles.
 - Remove SlurpDirectory.
 - Replace slurp_recorded with readRecorded in make_new_pending.
 - Use a more canonic way to create empty hashed pristine.
 - Reimplement applyHashed in terms of hashedTreeIO (Storage.Hashed.Monad).
 - Use a more canonic way to create empty hashed pristine in optimize
(--upgrade).
 - Port Commands.Move from Slurpy to Tree.
 - Re-implement setScriptsExecutable using Trees instead of Slurpies.
 - Re-implement optimize --relink using Trees instead of Slurpies.
 - Generalize announceFiles used by whatsnew and use it in record as well.
 - Re-work Commands.Add (simplify, use the new treeHas* functions).
 - Re-implement the Slurp-based file/dir existence-check functions in
terms of Trees.
 - Replace SlurpDirectory usage in Commands.Add with Tree-based code.
 - Remove implementation of --store-in-memory, simplifying matcher code.

2010-05-05 Eric Kow
 - Camel case some leftovers in Darcs.Commands.{Add,Move}.
 - Camel case Darcs.Commands.Pull again (fetch).
 - Catch Darcs.Hopefully up with Darcs.Patch.Info camel casing.
 - Resolve conflicts: fetch, obliterate -o vs SelectChanges refactor.

2010-04-22 Florent Becker
 - Add a fetch command
 - Add -o option to obliterate, to keep a backup of the patch
 - fix conflicts in Send
 - extract a few functions from Send

2010-05-05 Dino Morelli
 - Extend issue1232: darcs convert fails if missing _darcs/prefs/prefs
 - Extend issue1232: test to account for missing _darcs/prefs/prefs case

2010-05-05 Eric Kow
 - Camel case Darcs.Patch.Info.
 - Remove redundant Darcs.Commands.Optimize.isTag.
 - Fix typos in matcher documentation.

2010-05-02 Matthias Kilian
 - Documentation for `hunk' and `comment' matchers
 - resolve issue1769: add support for --match 'comment ...'

2010-05-05 Eric Kow
 - Camel case unit tester.
 - Fix unit.lhs: s/metadataStringTest/metadataDecodingTest/.

2010-05-02 Petr Rockai
 - Resolve issue1760: Fix working directory handling in Commands.Convert.

2010-05-02 Florent Becker
 - remove spurious todo in Choices.hs
 - make the new Patch.Choices compile in ghc6.10
 - Fix representation of patches in darcs revert's interactive selection
 - Clean up the new version of Patch.Choices
 - fix patch counting in interactive selection
 - fix conflicts in SelectChanges
 - Change representation of PatchChoices
 - resolve conflicts in SelectChanges
 - monadify interactive patch selection
 - Resolve conflicts in Record.lhs
 - add the --reverse option to all patch-selecting commands
 - resolve conflicts in AmendRecord.lhs
 - Simplify SelectChanges' interface and non-interactive part
 - add a witnessed zipper type
 - Some haddocks for Patch.Choices

2010-05-02 Reinier Lamers
 - Rename metadataStringTest to metadataDecodingTest
 - Add some haddock in Darcs.Patch.Info
 - Document behavior of text decoding functions in case of malformed input
 - resolve issue64: store metadata as UTF-8, autodetect UTF-8, and
don't normalize to NFC

2010-04-30 Petr Rockai
 - Resolve issue1814: Include contrib/darcs-errors.hlint in release tarball.

2010-05-03 Eric Kow
 - Resolve issue1824: avoid PACKAGE_VERSION under Windows.
 - Avoid PACKAGE_VERSION CPP macro in HTTP (see issue1824 note below).

2010-04-25 Dmitry Kurochkin
 - Haddock for Darcs.Repository.Cache.unionRemoteCaches.

2010-04-14 Eric Kow
 - Camel case SHA1.

2010-04-27 Petr Rockai
 - Fix typo (dacas -> darcs).

2010-04-18 Dmitry Kurochkin
 - URL: keep notify MVars in a single place.
 - Fix hscurl.c when URL is downloaded during the first call to
curl_multi_perform.
 - hscurl.c: remove #ifdef HAVE_CURL check.
 - Simplify libcurl pipelining configuration.
 - Pass -DCURL_PIPELINING to C compiler when HTTP pipelining is enabled.

2010-04-26 Eric Kow
 - Mention darcs blog and planet on homepage.

2010-04-17 Dino Morelli
 - style tweak: reformatted an import
 - Resolve issue1232: darcs convert forgets _darcs/prefs/prefs
 - Accept issue1232: darcs convert forgets _darcs/prefs/prefs

2010-04-23 Eric Kow
 - Camel case Darcs.Patch.OldDate.
 - Camel case Darcs.URL.
 - Camel case Darcs.Resolution.
 - Camel case Darcs.CommandsAux.
 - Camel case Darcs.ArgumentDefaults.
 - Camel case ByteStringUtils.

2010-04-25 Petr Rockai
 - Skip tests/issue1645-ignore-symlinks on win32.
 - Bump h-s dependency to 0.4.12, working around an lstat bug on windows.

2010-04-22 Florent Becker
 - export the right list of patches when not pulling anything
 - Resolve conflicts in Commands.Pull
 - Refactor Darcs.Commands.Pull