DarcsWeeklyNews/2014-03-17

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:

  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:

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

  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”:

Issues resolved (6)

issue642 Jose Luis Neder
issue2209 Jose Luis Neder
issue2319 Guillaume Hoffmann
issue2332 Guillaume Hoffmann
issue2335 Guillaume Hoffmann
issue2348 Ryan

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