[darcs-users] darcs weekly news #81

[Guillaume Hoffmann]

News and discussions
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1. Ganesh posted about darcs 2.5.1:

   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2011-January/025953.html

2. We discussed the inclusion of fastconvert as part of darcs 2.8,
   and reached consensus on darcs' next big goal, modularity:

   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-November/025860.html
   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-December/025882.html

Issues resolved in the last week (3)
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issue114 Florent Becker
 * allow hunk-splitting in revert
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue114

issue1922 Florent Becker
 * output correct context in darcs unpull -O
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1922

issue1978 Florent Becker
 * get does not correctly treat _darcs/format
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1978


Patches applied in the last week (49)
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2011-01-05 Eric Kow
 - Add GPL version to man page.
 - Specify GPLv2+ in manual.

2010-11-22 Alexey Levan
 - Use getBoolFlag to check for a packs flag
 - Fix check for --packs flag

2010-12-16 Eric Kow
 - Accept issue2017: apply crash when tag missing from context.

2011-01-07 Ganesh Sittampalam
 - hunk editing test
 - split a basic class out of ShowPatch that requires fewer deps

2010-11-22 Eric Kow
 - Friendlier _darcs/inventory HINT message.
 - Label the unreachable repository note as a HINT.
 - Label --set-default note as a HINT.

2010-11-21 Ganesh Sittampalam
 - fix warning in Darcs.Patch.Split
 - fix warning in Darcs.Patch.Bundle

2010-10-17 Florent Becker
 - resolve issue114: allow hunk-splitting in revert
 - resolve issue1978

2010-11-22 Ganesh Sittampalam
 - make checkUnrecordedConflicts use the correct patch type for the repo

2010-12-22 Eric Kow
 - Thanks to Summersault for their generous donation!
 - Resolve import conflict in rollback work and record on test failure.

2010-11-15 Florent Becker
 - Reinstantiate matchingHead
 - Limit unpull and rollback to last tag again
 - resolve issue1922: output correct context in darcs unpull -O
 - exit faster on null selection in Unrecord
 - test for issue 1922
 - allow rollback and unpull to work under tags

2010-12-07 Iago Abal
 - Update documentation of arbitraryTree.
 - Update link to the wiki UnitTests page.

2010-09-22 Eric Kow
 - More visible old-fashioned to hashed notice.
 - Update SFC address.

2010-12-10 Florent Becker
 - Don't require --darcs when it's not needed in darcs-test executable

2010-12-11 Alexey Levan
 - Fix linking with libdarcs under Windows

2010-11-22 Ganesh Sittampalam
 - simplify readPatch' for Braced
 - resolve conflict between patch reading changes and case -> maybe cleanup
 - drop the nested Maybes in the patch parser
 - drop the unused and often ignored "want eof" parameter to readPatch'
 - don't silently throw away remaining parse input
 - get rid of useless instance
 - rename Darcs.Hopefully to Darcs.Patch.PatchInfoAnd
 - move pending.new reading/writing into Repository.LowLevel
 - Get rid of pointless call to effect in Darcs.Resolution
 - Remove an unnecessary call to effect in setTentativePending
 - move writePatch and gzWritePatch outside ShowPatch
 - get rid of some spurious arguments to impossible
 - improve name
 - Darcs.Patch.Apply doesn't have orphans any more
 - generalise type of xmlSummary
 - tighten up type of handlePendForAdd
 - Tighten up type of applyToWorking
 - Tighten up type in Darcs.Rollback

2010-10-17 Florent Becker
 - more thorough checks of _darcs/format handling
 - Test for issue1978