[darcs-users] Darcs News #107

[Guillaume Hoffmann]

# 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:

    -   <http://alegdarcs.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/google-summer-of-code-2014-darcs.html>

2.  Marcio Diaz will work on the cache system:

    -   <http://marcioodiaz.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/gsoc-project-accepted.html>
    -   <http://marcioodiaz.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/gsoc-progress-report-1-complete.html>

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

    -   <http://hub.darcs.net/darcs/darcs-reviewed/patch/20140425060647-5ef8f>


# Issues resolved (11)

issue851 Dan Frumin
  ~ -   interactive mode for whatsnew
    -   <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue851>

issue1066 Guillaume Hoffmann
  ~ -   clone to ssh URL by locally cloning then copying by scp
    -   <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1066>

issue1268 Guillaume Hoffmann
  ~ -   enable to write darcs init x
    -   <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1268>

issue1416 Ale Gadea
  ~ -   put log files in tempdir instead of in working dir.
    -   <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1416>

issue1987 Marcio Diaz
  ~ -   Garbage collection for inventories and patches.
    -   <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1987>

issue2263 Ale Gadea
  ~ -   Option --set-scripts-executable is not properly documented
    -   <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2263>

issue2345 Dan Frumin
  ~ -   solution using cabal's checkForeignDeps
    -   <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2345>

issue2357 Dan Frumin
  ~ -   switching to regex-compat-tdfa for unicode support
    -   <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2357>

issue2365 Guillaume Hoffmann
  ~ -   correctly copy pristine in no-working-dir clones
    -   <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2365>

issue2367 Guillaume Hoffmann
  ~ -   rename amend-record to amend, make --unrecord more visible
    -   <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2367>

issue2379 Guillaume Hoffmann
  ~ -   only use packs to copy pristine when up-to-date
    -   <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2379>


# 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