Darcs News #110

# News and discussions

1.  The Darcs 2.10 release is near! Please test the release branch and tell
    us if you find a bug.

    -   <http://darcs.net/Releases/2.10>
    -   <http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2015-March/027105.html>

2.  Joachin Breitner has shut down his darcswatch service after 7 years
    of activity:

    -   <http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2015-February/027102.html>
    -   <http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2015-February/027104.html>
    -   <http://www.joachim-breitner.de/blog/672-DarcsWatch_End-Of-Life%E2%80%99d>

# Issues resolved (11)

issue822 Ernesto Rodriguez
  ~ -   Generalized the IO Type for better error messages and exception handling
    -   <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue822>

issue2260 Ganesh Sittampalam
  ~ -   skip internal patches when counting
    -   <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2260>

issue2385 Guillaume Hoffmann
  ~ -   invoke pager without temporary file
    -   <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2385>

issue2410 Guillaume Hoffmann
  ~ -   detect replaces even with tokens of different lengths
    -   <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2410>

issue2411 Guillaume Hoffmann
  ~ -   ignore swap moves with --look-for-moves
    -   <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2411>

issue2414 Guillaume Hoffmann
  ~ -   use parseFlags instead of toMatchFlags where needed
    -   <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2414>

issue2418 Guillaume Hoffmann
  ~ -   add and check on-disk patch index version
    -   <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2418>

issue2422 Ganesh Sittampalam
  ~ -   drop unneeded LambdaCase extension
    -   <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2422>

issue2427 Ben Franksen
  ~ -   start conversion from intermediate tree state
    -   <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2427>

issue2431 Ben Franksen
  ~ -   rollback Control.Monad.Catch generalizations
    -   <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2431>

issue2432 Ganesh Sittampalam
  ~ -   use the merged version of the local patches
    -   <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2432>

issue2437 Guillaume Hoffmann
  ~ -   fix cloning to ssh by forgetting source repo later
    -   <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2437>


# Patches applied (111)

2015-03-02 Ganesh Sittampalam
  ~ -   resolve issue2432: use the merged version of the local patches
    -   fix warning

2015-02-22 Guillaume Hoffmann
  ~ -   resolve issue2437: fix cloning to ssh by forgetting source repo later
    -   bump version to 2.11.0
    -   bump version to 2.10.0

2015-02-10 Ganesh Sittampalam
  ~ -   -D_REENTRANT shouldn't be conditional on -frtsopts

2015-02-27 Guillaume Hoffmann
  ~ -   license DateTime module as BSD3, with original author approval

2015-02-25 Ganesh Sittampalam
  ~ -   move the bits of the datetime package we need into a
Darcs.Util.DateTime module

2015-02-26 Guillaume Hoffmann
  ~ -   NEWS update for Darcs 2.8.x releases

2015-02-21 Ben Franksen
  ~ -   resolve issue2431: rollback Control.Monad.Catch generalizations
    -   cleanup: removed old disabled code for isInteractive
    -   re-implemented getOutput in terms of the option spec
    -   cleanup: renamed applyas to applyAs
    -   purged RemoteApply of DarcsFlag remains
    -   fix: moved import of applyAs from Darcs.UI.RemoteApply to Darcs.UI.Flags
    -   cleanup: renamed PatchIndexOption to WithPatchIndex
    -   cleanup: Repository.Format and .Internal haddocks and variable names
    -   fixed type of identifyRepositoryFor according to TODO in comment
    -   cleanup: import anchoredRoot instead of internal representation

2014-12-13 Ganesh Sittampalam
  ~ -   tweak takeHeadRebase docs/message a bit
    -   support GHC 7.10/base 4.8

2015-01-26 Ben Franksen
  ~ -   fix: use getExecutablePath only if ghc version >= 7.6
    -   resolved issue2333: use getExecutablePath instead of getProgName

2015-02-10 Ganesh Sittampalam
  ~ -   skip issue2333 test on GHC 7.4

2015-01-25 Ben Franksen
  ~ -   accept issue2333: Error message when pushing and darcs not in path
    -   cleanup: tentativelyReplacePatches is only used internally
    -   cleanup: slightly streamlined doRecord
    -   cleanup: indentation of commandControlList
    -   fixed completion for help command
    -   fixed failing fromJust in look-for-replaces implementation
    -   adding -K option to less fixes "leaking last line" after Ctrl-C

2015-02-12 Guillaume Hoffmann
  ~ -   resolve issue2385: invoke pager without temporary file

2015-02-19 Ganesh Sittampalam
  ~ -   resolve issue2260: skip internal patches when counting

2015-02-18 Guillaume Hoffmann
  ~ -   remove in-depth help of repo format error, redundant with scp's errors
    -   resolve issue2410: detect replaces even with tokens of different lengths
    -   remove last dependency on extensible-exceptions
    -   remove always true condition ghc >= 6.8 in cabal file
    -   no longer use extensible-exceptions since we require ghc 7.4
    -   bump dependencies lower bounds implied by requiring ghc 7.4

2015-02-10 Ben Franksen
  ~ -   cleanup: restructured haddocks in the options core module,
simplified parseFlags
    -   restore cabal haddock by removing an out-commented line of code
    -   cleanup: purged code for obsolete --debug-verbose flag
    -   fix: failing-issue1327.sh should fail for the right reason
    -   removed block buffering for bundle transfer in push and remote apply

2014-12-13 Guillaume Hoffmann
  ~ -   resolve Issue2411: ignore swap moves with --look-for-moves
    -   comment for normPath with examples
    -   patch index: change order of on-disk pids
    -   check on-disk version of patch index at right place
    -   patch index: adapt removePidSuffix to the new order of pids

2014-12-10 Ganesh Sittampalam
  ~ -   need to un-reverse the pids for the patch-index-test
    -   use the strict state monad for working with PatchIndex
    -   maintain the list of PatchIds inside the PatchIndex structure
    -   Keep the PatchId list in reversed order in memory
    -   Move the handling of individual PatchMods into applyPatchMods

2014-11-19 Guillaume Hoffmann
  ~ -   make Darcs.Util.Path.normPath cheaper on well formed paths
    -   make Darcs.Util.Path.decodeWhite cheaper on paths that do not need it
    -   resolve issue2418: add and check on-disk patch index version
    -   no longer use indexing for on-disk patch index, make infomap a
bloom filter
    -   reimplement getPatches with less code
    -   comments for convert --export

2015-02-09 Ganesh Sittampalam
  ~ -   Windows build fix

2015-01-14 Ernesto Rodriguez
  ~ -   Fixed error message for invalid http repos.
    -   issue822: Generalized the IO Type for better error messages
and exception handling

2015-01-26 Ben Franksen
  ~ -   fixed incomplete patterns in Darcs.Repository
    -   cleanup: group type signatures with definitions in D.U.Printer
    -   add --[no-]compress option to push command (with --compress the default)
    -   optimization: compress patch data before sending over ssh
    -   cleanup: removed no longer used option compressActions
    -   minimally improved tests/convert_export.sh by testing for
identical file content
    -   test all available commands in disable.sh
    -   fixed two failing tests for issue2186
    -   use files instead of pipe in tests/convert_export.sh
    -   cleanup: removed flag membership tests (marks, patchIndex, lazy)
    -   cleanup: fixed indentation of convert command definitions
    -   cleanup: group type signatures with definitions (withLock,releaseLock)
    -   rolled back some accidental changes to messages and comments

2014-12-31 Ganesh Sittampalam
  ~ -   Make more of an effort to encode output correctly
    -   rename 'rebase changes' to 'rebase log'

2015-01-24 Ben Franksen
  ~ -   improved zsh completion script

2014-11-19 Guillaume Hoffmann
  ~ -   remove unused FileName related function

2014-11-14 Ben Franksen
  ~ -   In CommandControl, push the existential down into the alternatives

2014-11-18 Ganesh Sittampalam
  ~ -   resolve conflicts
    -   Make the options type used by a command into a type parameter.
    -   fix the --to-patch and --to-match flags

2014-12-09 Guillaume Hoffmann
  ~ -   remove execSSH unused since removal of the put command
    -   accept issue2432: pull --reorder fails to commute patches

2015-02-02 Ben Franksen
  ~ -   resolve issue2427: start conversion from intermediate tree state

2014-11-17 Ganesh Sittampalam
  ~ -   Uncouple the --mail and --sendmail-command options

2014-11-17 Ben Franksen
  ~ -   use decodeString to convert command line args up front
    -   move Iso and IsoFunctor from Darcs.UI.Options.Core to
Darcs.UI.Options.Iso

2014-11-15 Owen Stephens
  ~ -   Abstract out some common code in UI/Options/Util
    -   Use fromMaybe d x instead of maybe d id x
    -   Improve --not-in-remote, allowing multiple repos and use default
    -   Remove some trailing spaces

2014-12-05 Ganesh Sittampalam
  ~ -   always compile with mmap support

2014-11-13 Ben Franksen
  ~ -   cleaned up some duplicate build-depends in darcs.cabal

2014-11-17 Guillaume Hoffmann
  ~ -   resolve issue2414: use parseFlags instead of toMatchFlags where needed

2014-11-12 Ben Franksen
  ~ -   removed a wrong comment in Darcs.UI.Options.All
    -   added some empty lines and fixed a comment typo in Darcs.UI.RemoteApply

2014-11-12 Ganesh Sittampalam
  ~ -   minimise imports of DarcsFlag's constructors

2014-11-09 Ben Franksen
  ~ -   removed tests for flag membership in Darcs.UI.CommandsAux

2014-12-11 Ganesh Sittampalam
  ~ -   Rename the 'utf8' test to 'latin9-input'

2014-11-08 Ben Franksen
  ~ -   fix the convert command (convert.sh test failed)

2014-11-27 Guillaume Hoffmann
  ~ -   remove redundant import

2014-11-25 Lancelot Six
  ~ -   Use darcsdir instead of literal "_darcs"

2014-11-25 Lele Gaifax
  ~ -   Suggest creating the initial git.marks in the incremental
fast-export example
    -   Use a double end-of-line to separate the patch name from the
log in fast-export
    -   Fix the git fast-import options in the incremental example

2014-11-25 Ganesh Sittampalam
  ~ -   resolve issue2422: drop unneeded LambdaCase extension

2014-11-12 Guillaume Hoffmann
  ~ -   use bytestring functions dropWhile and break instead of ours

2014-11-19 Ben Franksen
  ~ -   fix: in utf.sh, add --skip-long-comment else an editor is opened