Releases/2.10

2.10

Availability

Darcs 2.10.3 is available by cabal install darcs-2.10.3; you can also download the source tarball.

The 2.10 branch is available as a darcs repository from http://darcs.net/releases/branch-2.10, and an up-to-date zip archive can be downloaded from http://darcs.net/releases/branch-2.10/branch-2.10.zip.

What’s new in 2.10.3 (released 2016-01-29)

  • implement weak repository hash and show it in “darcs show repo” (Guillaume)
  • whatsnew –machine-readable for more parsability (Guillaume)
  • enhance Git import: empty directories, escape/unescape file names (Owen, Guillaume)
  • force grep to treat output of locale as text (Ganesh)
  • expose API for “darcs diff” (Ganesh)
  • make commit an alias for record (Guillaume)
  • bump dependencies on vector, process, HUnit, binary, transformers, time, HTTP, transformers-compat

What’s new in 2.10.2 (released 2015-11-09)

  • optimize patch apply code memory use
  • make patch selection lazier in presence of matchers
  • switch patches retrieval order when using packs
  • switch from dataenc (deprecated) to sandi
  • finish updating help strings with new command names
  • clean contrib scripts
  • disable mmap on Windows
  • enhance darcs send message
  • fix quickcheck suite
  • shorter README with quickstart instructions
  • fixed the following bugs:
    • issue2457: fix darcs-test command line options
    • issue2463: building darcs on powerpc
    • issue2444: added default interactivity parameter to isInteractive

What’s new in 2.10.1 (released 2015-07-09)

  • support terminfo 0.4, network 2.6, zlib 0.6, quickcheck 2.8 and attoparsec 0.13
  • errorDoc now prints a stack trace (if profiling was enabled) (Ben Franksen)
  • beautified error messages for command line and default files (Ben Franksen)
  • generalized doFastZip for darcsden support
  • fixed the following bugs: - issue2449: test harness/shelly: need to handle mis-encoded/binary data (Ganesh Sittampalam) - issue2423: diff only respecting –diff-command when a diff.exe is present (Alain91) - issue2447: get contents of deleted file (Ben Franksen) - issue2307: add information about ‘darcs help manpage’ and ‘darcs help markdown’ (Dan Frumin) - issue2461: darcs log –repo=remoterepo creates and populates _darcs (Ben Franksen) - issue2459: cloning remote repo fails to use packs if cache is on a different partition (Ben Franksen)

What’s new in 2.10.0 (released 2015-04-19)

New features

  • darcs rebase: enable deep amending of history (Ganesh Sittampalam)
  • darcs pull --reorder: keep local-only patches on top of mainstream patches (Ale Gadea, Ganesh Sittampalam)
  • darcs dist --zip: generate a zip archive from a repository (Guillaume Hoffmann)
  • patch bundle contexts are minimized by default. Enables bundles to be applied to more repositories. (Guillaume Hoffmann)
  • darcs convert export/import for conversion to/from VCSes supporting the fast-export protocol (Petr Rockai, Owen Stephens, Guillaume Hoffmann, Lele Gaifax, Ben Franksen)
  • darcs test --backoff: exponential backoff test strategy, faster than bisect on big repositories (Michael Hendricks)
  • work normally on sshfs-mounted repositories (Nathaniel Filardo)
  • automatic detection of file/directory moves, and of token replaces (Jose Neder)
  • patience diff algorithm by default (Jose Neder)
  • interactive mode for whatsnew (Dan Frumin)
  • tag --ask-deps to create tags that may not include some patches (Ganesh Sittampalam)

User Interface

  • add a last question after all patches have been selected to confirm the whole selection (Florent Becker)
  • command names:
    • clone is the new name of get and put
    • log is the new name of changes
    • amend is the new name of amend-record
  • show output of log into a pager by default (Guillaume Hoffmann)
  • the output of log is more similar to git’s:
    • show patch hash in UI (hash of the patch’s metadata)
    • put author and date on separate lines (Guillaume Hoffmann)
  • enable to match on patch hash prefix with -h and –hash (Guillaume Hoffmann, Gian Piero Carrubba)
  • better messages:
    • better error messages for http and ssh errors (Ernesto Rodriguez)
    • init, add, remove, move and replace print confirmation messages (Guillaume Hoffmann)
  • rollback only happens in the working copy (Florent Becker, Guillaume Hoffmann)
  • darcs send no longer tries to send a mail by default (Eric Kow)
  • when no patch name given, directly invoke text editor (Jose Neder, Guillaume Hoffmann)
  • use nano as default text editor instead of vi (Guillaume Hoffmann)
  • keep log files for patch name and mail content in _darcs (Ale Gadea)
  • optimize and convert are now supercommands (Guillaume Hoffmann)
  • improve darcs help environment and darcs help markdown (Radoslav Dorcik, Guillaume Hoffmann)
  • warn about duplicate tags when creating a new one (Ale Gadea)
  • allow darcs mv into known, but deleted in working, file (Owen Stephens)
  • improve--not-in-remote, allowing multiple repos and use default (Owen Stephens)

Performance

  • faster darcs diff (Petr Rockai)
  • faster log and annotate thanks to patch index data structure (BSRK Aditya, Benedikt Schmidt, Eric Kow, Guillaume Hoffmann, Ganesh Sittampalam)
  • faster push via ssh by using compression (Ben Franksen)
  • cloning to an ssh destination (formerly darcs put) is more efficient (Guillaume Hoffmann)
  • faster internal representation of patch hashes (Guillaume Hoffmann)
  • when cloning from http, use packs in a more predictable way (Guillaume Hoffmann)
  • store global cache in bucketed format (Marcio Diaz)
  • require and support GHC 7.4 to 7.10 (Ganesh Sittampalam)
  • replace type witness CPP macros with plain Haskell (Eric Kow)
  • hashed-storage is bundled into darcs (Ganesh Sittampalam)
  • replace C SHA256 bindings with external libraries (Ganesh Sittampalam)
  • move the bits of the datetime package we need into Darcs.Util.DateTime (Ganesh Sittampalam)
  • build Darcs once rather than thrice. (Eric Kow)
  • remove home page and manual from darcs’ repository (Guillaume Hoffmann)
  • run tests through cabal test (Ryan Desfosses)
  • run fewer darcs-1 related tests in testsuite (Ganesh Sittampalam)
  • Use custom replHook to fix cabal repl (Owen Stephens)
  • darcs.cabal: make Haskell2010 the default-language for all stanzas (Ben Franksen)
  • always compile with mmap support (Ganesh Sittampalam)
  • new options subsystem (Ben Franksen)
  • various cleanups, code restructurations and refactoring, haddocks (Will Langstroth, Owen Stephens, Florent Becker, Guillaume Hoffmann, Michael Hendricks, Eric Kow, Dan Frumin, Ganesh Sittampalam)

Issues resolved in Darcs 2.10

  • issue346: implement “patience diff” from bzr (Jose Neder)
  • issue642: Automatic detection of file renames (Jose Neder)
  • issue822: generalized the IO Type for better error messages and exception handling (Ernesto Rodriguez)
  • issue851: interactive mode for whatsnew (Dan Frumin)
  • issue904: Fix record on Linux/FUSE/sshfs (fall back to sloppy locks automatically) (Nathaniel Filardo)
  • issue1066: clone to ssh URL by locally cloning then copying by scp (Guillaume Hoffmann)
  • issue1268: enable to write darcs init x (Radoslav Dorcik)
  • issue1416: put log files in tempdir instead of in working dir (Ale Gadea)
  • issue1514: send –minimize-context flag for send (Guillaume Hoffmann)
  • issue1624: bucketed cache (Marcio Diaz)
  • issue1828: file listing and working –dry-run for mark-conflicts (Guillaume Hoffmann)
  • issue1987: Garbage collection for inventories and patches (Marcio Diaz)
  • issue2181: put cache in $XDG_CACHE_HOME (~/.cache by default) (Guillaume Hoffmann)
  • issue2193: make that finalizeTentativeChanges no longer run tests (Guillaume Hoffmann)
  • issue2198: move repo testing code to Darcs.Repository.Test (Guillaume Hoffmann)
  • issue2200: darcs replace complains if no filepaths given (Owen Stephens)
  • issue2204: do not send mail by default (Eric Kow)
  • issue2237: prevent patch index creation for non-hashed repos (Owen Stephens)
  • issue2235: Accept RFC2822 dates (Dave Love)
  • issue2246: add default boring entry for emacs session save files (Owen Stephens)
  • issue2253: attempting to use the patch index shouldn’t create it on OF repos (Owen Stephens)
  • Issue2278: Document default value for –keep-date / –no-keep-date (Mark Stosberg)
  • issue2199: getMatchingTag needs to commute for dirty tags (Ganesh Sittampalam)
  • issue2247: move patch index creation into the job running code (Ganesh Sittampalam)
  • issue2238: let optsModifier remove all occurrences of LookForAdds (Gian Piero Carrubba)
  • issue2236: make ‘n’ an alias for ‘q’ in lastregret questions (Gian Piero Carrubba)
  • issue2155: Expurgate the non-functional annotate –xml-output option (Dave Love)
  • issue2248: always clean up rebase-in-progress state (Ganesh Sittampalam)
  • issue2270: fixed darcs changes -i –only-to-files (Sebastian Fischer)
  • issue2282: don’t allow remote operations to copy the rebase patch (Ganesh Sittampalam)
  • issue2287: obliterate -O doesn’t overwrite existing file. (Radoslav Dorcik)
  • issue2227: move the rebase patch to the end before an amend-record (Ganesh Sittampalam)
  • issue2277: rebase suspend and unsuspend supports –summary. (Radoslav Dorcik)
  • issue2311: posthook for ‘get’ should run in created repo (Sebastian Fischer)
  • issue2312: posthooks for ‘record’ and ‘amend-record’ should receive DARCS_PATCHES (Sebastian Fischer)
  • issue2163: new option for amend, select author for patch stealing. (Radoslav Dorcik)
  • issue2321: when no patch name given, directly invoke text editor (Jose Neder)
  • issue2320: save prompted author name in ~/.darcs/author instead of ./_darcs/prefs/author (Jose Neder)
  • issue2250: tabbing in usageHelper - pad by max length of command name (BSRK Aditya)
  • issue2309: annotate includes line numbers (Owen Stephens)
  • issue2334: fix win32 build removing file permission functions (Guillaume Hoffmann)
  • issue2343: darcs amend-record does not record my change (Jose Neder)
  • issue2335: one liner when adding tracked files if not verbose (Guillaume Hoffmann)
  • issue2313: whatsnew -l: Stack space overflow (Jose Neder)
  • issue2347: fix amend-record –prompt-long-comment (Guillaume Hoffmann)
  • issue2348: switch to cabal’s test framework (Ryan Desfosses)
  • issue2209: Automatically detect replace (Jose Neder)
  • issue2332: ignore case of characters in prompt (Guillaume Hoffmann)
  • issue2263: Option –set-scripts-executable is not properly documented (Ale Gadea)
  • issue2367: rename amend-record to amend, make –unrecord more visible (Guillaume Hoffmann)
  • issue2345: solution using cabal’s checkForeignDeps (Dan Frumin)
  • issue2357: switching to regex-compat-tdfa for unicode support (Dan Frumin)
  • issue2379: only use packs to copy pristine when up-to-date (Guillaume Hoffmann)
  • issue2365: correctly copy pristine in no-working-dir clones (Guillaume Hoffmann)
  • issue2244: darcs tag should warn about duplicate tags (Ale Gadea)
  • issue2364: don’t break list of ‘bad sources’ (Sergei Trofimovich)
  • issue2361: optimize –reorder runs forever with one repository (Ale Gadea)
  • issue2364: fix file corruption on double fetch (Sergei Trofimovich)
  • issue2394: make optimize a supercommand (Guillaume Hoffmann)
  • issue2396: make convert a supercommand and enhance help strings (Guillaume Hoffmann)
  • issue2314: output-auto-name in defaults file (Ben Franksen)
  • issue2388: check if inventories dir has been created (Owen Stephens)
  • issue2249: Rename isFile to isValidLocalPath and WorkRepoURL to WorkRepoPossibleURL (Mateusz Lenik)
  • issue2153: allow skipping backwards through depended-upon patches (Andreas Brandt)
  • issue2380: allow darcs mv into known, but deleted in working, file (Owen Stephens)
  • issue2403: need to avoid moving the rebase patch to the end (Ganesh Sittampalam)
  • issue2409: implement darcs rebase apply (Ganesh Sittampalam)
  • issue2385: invoke pager without temporary file (Guillaume Hoffmann)
  • issue2333: better error message when pushing and darcs not in path (Ben Franksen)

Known issues

These are known new issues in darcs 2.10:

  • issue2269: rebase should warn about stolen patches at suspend, not unsuspend
  • issue2272: darcs rebase unsuspend should automate or semi-automate handling unrecorded changes
  • issue2276: darcs rebase unsuspend needs UI improvements for “You are not… Amend anyway?”
  • issue2359: convert –export mishandles Unicode filenames
  • issue2372: Please remove “HINT: I could not reach…” message
  • issue2436: rollback –patches takes ages before first prompt
  • issue2445: internal error if suspended patch is pulled into repository again