DarcsWeeklyNews/2010-04-04

News and discussions

  1. Lennart Kolmodin announced that darcs 2.4 was available in Gentoo Linux:

  2. Mark Stosberg talked about darcs handling large repositories, then spawning a discussion on git vs darcs from the UI point of view:

  3. If you haven’t already read it on this blog, you can have a look at Eric’s report from the last darcs hacking sprint:

Issues resolved in the last week (4)

issue1208
issue1427 Guillaume Hoffmann
issue1739 Reinier Lamers
issue1756 Petr Rockai
issue1765 Reinier Lamers

Patches applied in the last week (29)

2010-03-30 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • drop unnecessary GHC extensions from test helper
  • speed up test by compiling helper once
  • add type witnesses to trackdown –bisect
  • fix warning
2010-03-29
  • resolve-issue1208: trackdown –bisect (PatchTree).
2010-04-02 Eric Kow
  • Test for issue183.
  • Fix bug in issue1645 test.
2010-03-30 Petr Rockai
  • Avoid a direct multibyte string in issue1739 test that confuses ShellHarness.
2010-03-21 Reinier Lamers
  • Refactor makeRemovePatch: use foldM and split in two
  • Rename issue1765 test to reflect that it succeeds
  • resolve issue1765: refuse to remove non-tracked directories recursively
2010-03-29 Eric Kow
  • Tidy up issue1727 test.
2010-03-29 Sean Erle Johnson
  • Accept issue1727: darcs move . target fails.
2010-03-21 Guillaume Hoffmann
  • resolve issue1427 accept gzipped patch bundles in darcs apply
  • accept issue1427 accept gzipped patch bundles in darcs apply
2010-03-27 Trent W. Buck
  • Extend issue1645 with additional pathologies.
2010-03-24 Petr Rockai
  • Resolve issue1756: new h-s handles file removals correctly in Index.
2010-03-17 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • disable unused do binding warnings for now
  • add PatternGuards extension to witnesses build
  • add cabal flag to control build of darcs library
2010-03-21 Florent Becker
  • Make commuteFL symmetrical with commuteRL
2010-03-20
  • useless string concatenation plus useless $.
2010-03-21 Guillaume Hoffmann
  • use isPrefixOf instead of take x y == “string” in some places
2010-03-21 Reinier Lamers
  • accept issue1763: pull on non-ascii filenames
  • resolve issue1739: make ColorPrinter handle characters > 255
2010-01-10 David Markvica
  • remove the hardcoded string “_darcs” in some places and replace it with the global darcsdir
2010-02-15 Florent Becker
  • export stdout in RepoPath
  • demonadify useAbsoluteOrStd
  • Put presentParticiple into the English module