DarcsWeeklyNews/2014-05-05

News and discussions

  1. Darcs has received two grants from the Google Summer of Code program, as part of the umbrella organization Haskell.org. Alejandro Gadea will work on history reordering:

  2. Marcio Diaz will work on the cache system:

  3. Repository cloning to remote ssh hosts has been present for years as darcs put. This feature has now a more efficient implementation:

Issues resolved (11)

issue851 Dan Frumin
issue1066 Guillaume Hoffmann
issue1268 Guillaume Hoffmann
issue1416 Ale Gadea
issue1987 Marcio Diaz
issue2263 Ale Gadea
issue2345 Dan Frumin
issue2357 Dan Frumin
issue2365 Guillaume Hoffmann
issue2367 Guillaume Hoffmann
issue2379 Guillaume Hoffmann

Patches applied (41)

2014-05-03 Owen Stephens
  • Use custom replHook to fix cabal repl
  • Use DeriveFunctor instead of manual instance for PatchMod
2014-04-25 Guillaume Hoffmann
  • update packs tests to new strings
  • resolve issue1268: enable to write darcs init x
  • rename get to clone
  • remove Put since Get can clone to ssh destination faster
  • resolve issue1066: clone to ssh URL by locally cloning then copying by scp
  • do not tolerate ctrl+c when –complete is passed
  • do not print message twice when patches pack grabbing fails
  • create inventories subdir at darcs init
2014-04-24 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • TAG 2.9.9
2014-04-22 Guillaume Hoffmann
  • resolve issue2365: correctly copy pristine in no-working-dir clones
  • rename copyRepo to copyHashedInventory, separate copySources
  • only print once repository renaming message when cloning
  • maybeIdentifyRepository: report missing _darcs directory right away
  • no longer make put autocomplete on known repos
  • rename setDefaultrepo to addRepoSource and haddock it
  • resolve issue2379: only use packs to copy pristine when up-to-date
2014-02-08 Dan Frumin
  • A shell test for whatsnew --interactive
  • resolve issue851: interactive mode for whatsnew
  • Cleaning up the headers in WhatsNew and SelectChanges
2014-04-23 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • switch hashed-storage-test to be a proper test harness
  • dumb merge of hashed-storage.cabal etc into darcs.cabal
  • drop NoMonomorphismRestriction from hashed-storage
  • conditionally use local copy of Data.Map.Strict in Darcs.Repository.Util
2014-02-14 Dan Frumin
  • resolve issue2357: switching to regex-compat-tdfa for unicode support
  • resolve issue2345: solution using cabal’s checkForeignDeps
2014-04-22 Owen Stephens
  • Add a test for all combinations of path status for darcs move
2014-04-19 Ganesh Sittampalam
  • don’t advertise GHC 7.8 support until http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2364 is fixed
2014-04-10 Guillaume Hoffmann
  • resolve issue2367: rename amend-record to amend, make –unrecord more visible
  • Accept issue2365: whatsnew fails in repos made w get –no-working-dir
2014-04-09 Marcio Diaz
  • resolve issue1987: Garbage collection for inventories and patches.
  • Accept issue1987: regression tests for garbage collection for
2014-04-08 Guillaume Hoffmann
  • fix warning in Record
2014-04-08 Ale Gadea
  • Resolve Issue1416: put log files in tempdir instead of in working dir.
2013-10-27 Guillaume Hoffmann
  • TAG 2.9.8
  • bump version to 2.9.8
2013-09-06 Petr Rockai
  • Fix a bug in MIME encoding of bundles.
2014-03-17 Guillaume Hoffmann
  • eliminate withRepoReadLock obsolete since old-fashioned deprecation
  • polish help string on get –set-strings-executable
2014-03-22 Ale Gadea
  • Resolve Issue2263: Option –set-scripts-executable is not properly documented