Heffalump: give me a secret to create account on wiki.

sent by messages

got.

bfrk: what i need to modify top page on darcs.net ?

I think you have to do that offline and have someone with perms push the patch. What change do you need?

update links to 2.16.3

Probably update latest release?

yea

5sec task.

archlinux already updated, darcs in base.

I'd say a 'darcs send' should do it.

Sorry. What I meant is: darcs clone darcs.net/darcs-wiki, edit FrontPage.page, darcs record, darcs send. Not sure but I hope the send will add a patch to the tracker.

ok

I have actually already made the change to the wiki front page. I will do a darcs send now and we will see if it works...

It seems the patch just gets sent directly to darcs-devel⊙dn and not to the tracker. I will try 'darcs push' now.

Noob question: What's `darcs send` and how does it differ from `darcs push`?

Okay, so the procedure I sketched works. Your patch will be sent to darcs-devel and then someone (/me or Heffalump) will pick it up and push it and that's it.

vifon: it creates a so called "patch bundle", standard extension ".dpatch", which can then be applied using 'darcs apply'. darcs push is literally "darcs send, then darcs apply remotely".

So it asking me whether I want to send the patches is a lie?

No, since bundle contains the patches. (Plus a bit of context)

Or rather, should I interpret the "send" part of the question as "generate a .dpatch file"?

> Shall I send this patch? (10/17) [ynW...], or ? for more options:

<hint>:1:43: error: <hint>:1:43: error: parse error on input ‘,’

Indeed it just wrote to a file.

Removing my SSH key before accepting made me more confident in trying it. :)

Thanks for the explanation.

Many years ago the default for darcs send was changed to not actually send anything, just create the bundle as a file. That was because less and less people had sendmail or something equivalent on their machines.

Makes sense.

I keep forgetting that because I do have one installed (msmtp), and I have configured darcs so that darcs send actually sends an email.

darcs help send explains how to do that.

Heffalump: could you add an up-to-date Windows binary to the wiki?

sure - I'll try to do it this evening, feel free to remind me then

BTW, I also have

record prompt-long-comment

amend prompt-long-comment

in my ~/.darcs/defaults because I never liked that they changed the default to open an editor (that was before I became a core dev for darcs). Most changes don't warrant a long description anyway, and for amend I find it especially useful because it lets me decide whether I want to change the log after I selected changes.

I made a very short 2.16 wiki page so we have something to link to and so that darcs.net/Releases doesn't tail off with 2.14: darcs.net/Releases/2.16

but there is a lot of information on the previous ones that's just duplicated from elsewhere, I'm not sure we really want to keep doing that

windows binary added