[darcs-users] darcs weekly news #77

[Guillaume Hoffmann]

News and discussions
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1. Simon Michael worked on adding support for darcs repositories for
   ohloh.net and called for volunteers:

   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-November/025621.html
   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-November/025637.html


2. Christian Maeder asked how to apply a darcs patch to a non-darcs source
   tree:

   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-November/025617.html


Issues resolved in the last week (2)
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issue1266 Alexey Levan
 * add a warning about nested repositories
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1266

issue1984 Dmitry Tsygankov
 * better error message for 'darcs convert'
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1984


Patches applied in the last week (14)
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2010-10-17 Guillaume Hoffmann
 - redundant use of when inside of an else

2010-10-24 Dmitry Tsygankov
 - resolve issue1984: better error message for 'darcs convert'

2010-10-15 Alexey Levan
 - Resolve issue1266: add a warning about nested repositories

2010-10-20 Eric Kow
 - Improve issue1465 test (portability, tidiness).
 - Require absolute path for darcs-test --darcs.
 - Avoid 'Defined but not used' error in darcs-test.
 - Avoid accidentally running darcs-test on installed darcs.
 - Optional --test-dir for darcs-test (for troubleshooting failed tests).
 - Tidier announcement for subcommute unit tests.
 - Mark sections in test.hs.

2010-10-17 Florent Becker
 - make progress message in pull less silly looking

2010-11-01 Ganesh Sittampalam
 - Re-conditionalise setEnvCautiously

2010-10-01 Simon Michael
 - hook env vars: rename defineChanges/definePatches for clarity
 - hook env vars: clarify some conditional code