DarcsWeeklyNews/2013-02-04

News and discussions

  1. Confirmed: the next Hacking Sprint will be in IRILL, Paris on February 15, 16 and 17:

  2. Darcs HEAD has been fixed to work with GHC 7.6 without encoding bugs, go ahead and try it!

Issues resolved in the last week (4)

issue2199 Ganesh Sittampalam
issue2236 Gian Piero Carrubba
issue2238 Gian Piero Carrubba
issue2247 Ganesh Sittampalam

Patches applied in the last week (45)

2012-12-30 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • add some comments about “nearby” darcs, and print out the one that was found
  • make darcs-test look “nearby” for a darcs exe to use
  • canonize myself in .authorspellings
  • minor refactoring
  • Expose some of the innards of ShowAuthors for use in the API
  • Don’t expose intermediate details externally in Darcs.Patch.Annotate
  • annotate needs to use posix filepaths
  • provide a better error message on failure
  • be a bit more robust when deleting the patch index
2012-12-20 BSRK Aditya
  • Report an error if –disable-patch-index fails
2012-12-28 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • fix test on windows: replace shell script with haskell program
  • need to do case-insensitive comparison on Windows
2012-10-19 Mark Stosberg
  • PatchIndex: Add test coverage for a patch-indexed repo being accessed by older darcs.
  • Start documenting key flags in README.
2012-11-11 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • bump version to 2.9.6
  • TAG 2.9.6
  • need to treat paths in prefs/binaries as Posix, even on Windows
2012-09-29 Owen Stephens
  • Implement Repository/Prefs.normalise in terms of standard FilePath functions
2012-10-26 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • get rid of unsafePerformIO in cleanLocalDate
  • get rid of unused readLocalDate
2012-12-21 Owen Stephens
  • Refactor implementation of environment help
2012-12-19 Gian Piero Carrubba
  • avoid displaying ‘Unknown …’ in the output of darcs help environment
2012-11-11 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • break out Darcs.Util.AtExit from Darcs.Util.Global
  • move remains of Darcs.Util to be Darcs.Util.File
2012-09-15 Eric Kow
  • Remove redundant Module field from module haddocks.
2012-11-02 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • break out Darcs.Util.Environment
  • move breakCommand into Darcs.Util.Text
  • break out Darcs.Util.Exception from Darcs.Util
  • break out Darcs.Util.Prompt from Darcs.Util
  • break out Tree functions from Darcs.UI.Commands.Util
  • break Darcs.Util.Ssh out from Darcs.Util.Global
  • resolve issue2247: move patch index creation into the job running code
  • test that patch index is re-created if not present
  • resolve issue2199: getMatchingTag needs to commute for dirty tags
2012-12-13 Gian Piero Carrubba
  • resolve issue2236: make ‘n’ an alias for ‘q’ in lastregret questions
2012-12-18 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • tweak test to make sure that patches are actually selected
  • fix test following change in output
  • fix test for Windows
  • use throwIO instead of throw
  • restrict imports
  • provide verbose diagnostics for “can’t suspend”
  • replace debug function in ssh Connection with string
  • reorganise use of unsafePerformIO in transcoding a bit
  • replace instance Show Doc with an explicit function
2012-12-16 Gian Piero Carrubba
  • resolve issue2238: let optsModifier remove all occurrences of LookForAdds