September 5-11, 2021 in Darker: Community engagement and issue refinement

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This week, we focused on community engagement and refining several long-standing issues. We initiated discussions about organizing virtual meetups for Darker contributors (#60), aiming to strengthen our growing community. The proposal received positive feedback, with some contributors expressing interest in participating.

We made progress on several technical fronts. The handling of Black's exclude patterns (#181) has been addressed in the upcoming 1.3.0 release, allowing users to test this feature by installing the development version from the master branch. We also tackled an issue related to Darker's behavior with pre-commit (#180), revealing some uncertainty about how pre-commit handles file modifications during its execution. We're investigating whether Darker can safely modify files on disk when invoked by pre-commit.

Additionally, we clarified the behavior of Darker on all-whitespace files (#166), noting that it currently differs from Black. We're considering aligning Darker's behavior with a potential change in Black's public API, which would format all-whitespace files as a single newline.

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