[darcs-users] Darcs News #106

[Guillaume Hoffmann]

# News and discussions

1.  Darcs is participating once again to the Google Summer of Code, through
    the umbrella organization Haskell.org.
    Deadline for student application is Friday 21st:

    -   <http://darcs.net/GSoC>
    -   <https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2014/help_page>

2.  It is now possible to donate stock to darcs through the Software Freedom
    Conservancy organization. Donations by Paypal, Flattr, checks and wire
    transfer are still possible:

    -   <http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2013-December/026977.html>
    -   <http://darcs.net/Donations>

3.  Dan Licata wrote a presentation about Darcs as a higher inductive type:

    -   <http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2014-January/026985.html>

4.  Darcs now directly provides import and export commands with Git. This code
    was adapted from Petr Rockai's darcs-fastconvert, with some changes by
    Owen Stephen from his Summer of Code project "darcs-bridge":

    -   <http://hub.darcs.net/darcs/darcs-screened/patch/20140125154537-5ef8f>


# Issues resolved (6)

issue642 Jose Luis Neder
  ~ -   Automatic detection of file renames
    -   <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue642>

issue2209 Jose Luis Neder
  ~ -   Automatically detect replace
    -   <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2209>

issue2319 Guillaume Hoffmann
  ~ -   make changes non-interactive if fed to a pipe
    -   <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2319>

issue2332 Guillaume Hoffmann
  ~ -   ignore case of characters in prompt
    -   <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2332>

issue2335 Guillaume Hoffmann
  ~ -   one liner when adding tracked files if not verbose
    -   <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2335>

issue2348  Ryan
  ~ -   switch to cabal's test framework
    -   <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2348>


# Patches applied (34)

2014-03-02 Guillaume Hoffmann
  ~ -   pandoc-ize README and remove mention of old flags and warnings
    -   resolve issue2332: ignore case of characters in prompt

2014-01-26 Dan Frumin
  ~ -   Making sure darcs builds on OSX Mavericks

2014-02-08 Ganesh Sittampalam
  ~ -   hashed-storage: GHC 7.8 build fix
    -   support GHC 7.8 and various assorted other version bumps
    -   drop support for GHC 7.0/7.2
    -   get rid of now redundant conditionalisation
    -   remove accidentally added file
    -   fix hashed-storage build on Windows
    -   we need utf8-string on Windows too now for the fast-export/import code
    -   bump cryptohash dependency

2014-01-25 Guillaume Hoffmann
  ~ -   Implement convert --export and --import for git conversion

2014-01-10 Jose Luis Neder
  ~ -   resolve issue2209: Automatically detect replace

2014-01-08 Guillaume Hoffmann
  ~ -   remove useless check of xml-output in get and convert
    -   add hashed-storage 0.5.11

2013-09-15 Jose Luis Neder
  ~ -   resolve issue642: Automatic detection of file renames
    -   Show fileid info with show index

2013-11-28 Ryan
  ~ -   resolve issue2348: switch to cabal's test framework

2013-11-27 Guillaume Hoffmann
  ~ -   fix bug when global prefs dir does not exist and try to save author name

2013-11-26 Ganesh Sittampalam
  ~ -   improve help text
    -   need to use ByteString to read tests on unix
    -   fix warnings
    -   add a TODO comment
    -   add pragmas to shell tests to allow for the test to specify
configurations
    -   remove explicit choice of Myers diff from test
    -   add command-line options to control global test options

2013-10-11 Guillaume Hoffmann
  ~ -   resolve issue2335: one liner when adding tracked files if not verbose
    -   announce added files with existing infrastructure
    -   rename changes command to log, keep changes as alias
    -   output darcs changes to a pager if more than 20 lines big
    -   Make changes non-interactive by default again

2013-06-14 Guillaume Hoffmann
  ~ -   make changes non-interactive when given flags --count or --xml-output

2013-05-09 Guillaume Hoffmann
  ~ -   fix issue2270 test since piped darcs changes is now never interactive
    -   resolve issue2319: make changes non-interactive if fed to a pipe