Hi, On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Joachim Breitner wrote:

Hi,

after Iain reminded me of my lightning talk at the Ghent Hackathon about it I noticed that I had just sent that patch and then forgot about it:

Am Sonntag, den 07.11.2010, 12:45 +0100 schrieb Joachim Breitner:

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the small feature implemented by the attached patches could make it more convenient for people to quickly and easily contribute to hackage packages.

Do you want me to open a ticket for this or can you appl yit right away?

Thanks, Joachim

2 patches for repository http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal-install:

Sun Nov 7 12:35:32 CET 2010 Joachim Breitner * Add a new checkout Command Given a package name, this uses the SourceRepo field of the newest versionf of that pacakge to figure out the repository location and calls the right VCS invocation.

Sun Nov 7 12:43:35 CET 2010 Joachim Breitner * Add a --dry-run flag to cabal checkout

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