I'm not sure this will improve much, because the error messages come from
attoparsec, but at least the message text won't be constant, which was the
previous situation.
Previously, the color would get so dark it would blend with the page background
and the button text color. I'm not sure I picked the best color; just picked
something that works.
Before, Push activities were being ignored by all inboxes. I just forgot to add
code to handle them. Now, person inboxes accept them if they're about a
relevant repo (i.e. a repo of which the user is a remote follower; remote
collaboration would be relevant too, but it's not implemented yet).
Follows used to be added automatically, without a Follow activity sent by the
client. They aren't added automatically anymore, so there's no need for those
"manual" boolean fields.
It was vervis.localhost, probably a remainder from the time before the FedURI
rewrite, where it had to contain a period character. Now, in dev mode, it needs
to *not* contain one, and localhost works just fine and makes sense more than
anything else probably.
Before this patch, if you ran more than 1 instance as the same OS user, they'd
use the same config file path and overwrite it and cause post hooks to have
errors due to wrong config being used.
In Darcs, any command can have a post hook (and a pre hook), and the hook
command can be set using a command-line option to the darcs command that you
run. So, in the Vervis SSH server, if we add a --posthook option when running
`darcs apply` to apply remotely received patches, we get a chance to process
the patch data much like in the git post-receive hook.
The setup this patch creates is similar to the git one: It writes a
_darcs/prefs/defaults file to all Darcs repos, and that defaults file sets the
posthook line for `darcs apply`. The posthook line simply executes the actual
hook program written in Haskell.
The current hook program is a one-liner that prints a line to stdout, so every
time you `darcs push` you can tell the hook got executed. The next step is to
implement the actual hook logic, by reading patch data from the environment
variable in which Darcs puts it.