[darcs-users] darcs weekly news #88

Tue Jul 26 18:02:22 UTC 2011

News and discussions
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1. The Darcs 2.8 line has been branched for a tentative release in August:

   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2011-June/026206.html

2. To catch up with Owen's Summer of Code on git-darcs bridging:

   * http://blog.owenstephens.co.uk/201105/gsoc-darcs-bridge-week-0
   * http://blog.owenstephens.co.uk/201106/gsoc-darcs-bridge-week-2
   * http://blog.owenstephens.co.uk/201106/gsoc-darcs-bridge-week-3
   * http://blog.owenstephens.co.uk/201106/gsoc-first-simple-merging-branches-git-import
   * http://blog.owenstephens.co.uk/201106/gsoc-darcs-bridge-week-45
   * http://blog.owenstephens.co.uk/201107/gsoc-darcs-bridge-%E2%80%93-week-678
   * http://blog.owenstephens.co.uk/201107/gsoc-darcs-bridge-%E2%80%93-detecting-merges

3. To catch up with Petr's Summer of Code on Prim3 patches:

   * http://web.mornfall.net/blog/soc_reloaded:_darcs_primitive_patches_version_3.html
   * http://web.mornfall.net/blog/soc_reloaded:_progress_1.html

Issues resolved in the last week (10)
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issue1473 Florent Becker
 * : annotate --repodir works now
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1473

issue1714 Florent Becker
 * make --no-{pre,post}hook and --{pre,post}hook interact sensibly
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1714

issue1727 Florent Becker
 * forbid moving the root of the repository
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1727

issue1740 Florent Becker
 * handle post-hoc darcs mv for directories correctly
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1740

issue2021 Florent Becker
 * 2021: make escaping not split strings too much
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2021

issue2054 Scott Lawrence
 * option --boring does not work with self-made boringfile
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2054

issue2066 Andreas Brandt
 * file does not exist when recording deleted file
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2066

issue2067 Florent Becker
 * inexsitant files result in empty lines in darcs
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2067

issue2076 Florent Becker
 * 2076: handle post-hoc move into an non-added directory
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2076

issue2079 Florent Becker
 * 2079: don't set default repository by default in put
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2079

Patches applied in the last week (69)
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2011-07-10 Eric Kow
 - Accept issue2086: darcs forgets _darcs/index permissions.

2011-07-01 Florent Becker
 - More appropriate explanation for hunk-editing in revert
 - TAG 2.9.0

2011-06-28 Petr Rockai
 - Disable part of Patch tests in GHC<7 (requires GHC7-style impredicativity).
 - Add a couple of extra constraints required by GHC6.
 - Remove unneeded LANGUAGE pragmas from Examples.Set2Unwitnessed.
 - Replace FunctionalDependencies with TypeFamilies in new test code.
 - Implement V3Model and rudimentary V3.Prim Arbitrary instances.
 - Lift RepoModel into a class and rename the implementation to V1Model.
 - Wibble the V3 Prim skeleton a bit.
 - Add a forgotten Properties.Check module to Test.Patch.
 - Replace tMergeSwapMerge with Properties.Generic mergeEitherWay.
 - Replace tCommuteRecommute with recommute from Properties.Generic.
 - Further restructuring of QC properties of patches.
 - Slightly restructure and expand the Prim Arbitrary instances.
 - Print detailed diagnostic in patchAndInverseCommute.
 - Split Test.Patch.Test into Properties.Check and Arbitrary.PatchV1.
 - Generalise a bunch of merge/commute properties over the patch type
& generator.
 - Generalise the V1.Prim Arbitrary instance based on Tree to any PrimPatch.
 - Reorganise the Patch tests further.
 - Remove redundant imports in Darcs.Repository.Internal.
 - Make (V1) Prim an instance of PrimPatchBase/FromPrim.
 - Add a Show1 instance for (:>).
 - Merge Set2, Set2Unwitnessed and Set3Unwitnessed in Test.Patch.Examples.
 - Cut down the initial Prim V3 code to +/- compilable minimum.
 - Bootstrap the V3 Prim patches as a clone of V1.

2011-06-27 Owen Stephens
 - Add missing PrimClassify functions for all PrimConstruct functions
 - Export new readRepoUsingSpecificInventory function.

2011-06-14 Cedric Girard
 - Avoid alias on grep

2011-06-15 Florent Becker
 - make 'k' available in amend-record's selection
 - acknowledge put --no-set-default as default in tests
 - resolve issue 2079: don't set default repository by default in put
 - Resolve issue 2076: handle post-hoc move into an non-added directory
 - resolve issue1473 : annotate --repodir works now
 - Refuse to add unreadable files
 - resolve issue1727: forbid moving the root of the repository
 - resolve issue1740: handle post-hoc darcs mv for directories correctly
 - resolve issue1714: make --no-{pre,post}hook and --{pre,post}hook
interact sensibly

2011-06-10 Trent W. Buck
 - Accept issue1714: ALL mutex + foo no-mutex shouldn't reduce to foo mutex.

2011-06-06 Florent Becker
 - aknowledge status of issue1848
 - correct haddock in Printer

2011-06-05 Petr Rockai
 - Bump the HTTP dependency to >= 4000.0.8, which introduced setCheckForProxy.
 - Update contrib/install-deps.sh.

2011-04-24 Florent Becker
 - Support init/get --no-working-dir and pseudo-applying to wd-less repos
 - Resolve issue 2021: make escaping not split strings too much

2011-05-22 Andreas Brandt
 - resolve issue2066: file does not exist when recording deleted file
 - Accept issue2066: file does not exist when recording deleted file

2011-06-02 Lennart Kolmodin
 - Accept issue2076: "darcs mv file dir" confuses darcs

2011-06-01 Petr Rockai
 - Fix up test group labels.
 - Fix a number of warnings, making the tests compile with -fwarn-as-error.
 - Move the test list from Properties.V1Set2 to Darcs.Test.Patch.
 - Merge Darcs.Test.Patch.Prim.V1 into Darcs.Test.Patch.Arbitrary.PrimV1.
 - Explode Darcs.Test.Patch.Unit2 and Darcs.Test.Patch.QuickCheck.
 - Explode Darcs.Test.Patch.Unit into example/property sets + WSub.
 - Add flag to avoid building darcs executable (-f-executable, like -f-library).
 - Shuffle the PropertiesN and ExamplesN test modules into a hierarchy.
 - Make Darcs.Test.Patch.Properties independent of (V1) Prim implementation.
 - Break out Properties3 out of Darcs.Test.Patch.Examples, split up test groups.

2011-05-09 Owen Stephens
 - Bump regex-posix and regex-compat dependencies to use segfault-free version.
 - Fix test using incorrect grep pattern for failed add.
 - Make no changes if any to-be-added file errors.

2011-05-21 Ganesh Sittampalam
 - build fix for win32

2011-05-09 Scott Lawrence
 - Ignore files in darcsdir, even with --boring
 - Fix warnings in new unrecordedChanges code via slight refactoring
 - Resolve issue2054: option --boring does not work with self-made boringfile

2011-05-05 Florent Becker
 - Make check a read-only operation
 - Resolve issue2067: inexsitant files result in empty lines in darcs

2011-04-05 Iago Abal
 - Improve resolution of issue1611 by avoiding unnecessary warnings
 - Regression test for issue1611