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bzr-0.0.3 NOT RELEASED YET
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* 'bzr branch' over http initially gives a very high estimate
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of completion time but it should fall as the first few
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revisions are pulled in. branch is still slow on
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high-latency connections.
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* bzr-man.py has been updated to work again. Contributed by
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* Locking is now done with fcntl.lockf which works with NFS
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file systems. Contributed by Harald Meland.
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* When a merge encounters a file that has been deleted on
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one side and modified on the other, the old contents are
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written out to foo.BASE and foo.SIDE, where SIDE is this
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or OTHER. Contributed by Aaron Bentley.
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* Export was choosing incorrect file paths for the content of
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the tarball, this has been fixed by Aaron Bentley.
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* Commit will no longer commit without a log message, an
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error is returned instead. Contributed by Jelmer Vernooij.
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* If you commit a specific file in a sub directory, any of its
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parent directories that are added but not listed will be
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automatically included. Suggested by Michael Ellerman.
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* bzr commit and upgrade did not correctly record new revisions
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for files with only a change to their executable status.
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bzr will correct this when it encounters it. Fixed by
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* HTTP tests now force off the use of http_proxy for the duration.
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Contributed by Gustavo Niemeyer.
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* Fix problems in merging weave-based branches that have
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different partial views of history.
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* 'branch' now accepts a --basis parameter which will take advantage
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of local history when making a new branch. This allows faster
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branching of remote branches. Contributed by Aaron Bentley.
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* New tree format based on weave files, called version 5.
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Existing branches can be upgraded to this format using
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* Symlinks are now versionable. Initial patch by
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Erik Toubro Nielsen, updated to head by Robert Collins.
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* Executable bits are tracked on files. Patch from Gustavo
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* 'bzr status' now shows unknown files inside a selected directory.
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Patch from Heikki Paajanen.
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* Merge conflicts are recorded in .bzr. Two new commands 'conflicts'
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and 'resolve' have needed added, which list and remove those
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merge conflicts respectively. A conflicted tree cannot be committed
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in. Contributed by Aaron Bentley.
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* 'rm' is now an alias for 'remove'.
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* Stores now split out their content in a single byte prefixed hash,
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dropping the density of files per directory by 256. Contributed by
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* 'bzr diff -r branch:URL' will now perform a diff between two branches.
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Contributed by Robert Collins.
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* 'bzr log' with the default formatter will show merged revisions,
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indented to the right. Initial implementation contributed by Gustavo
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Niemeyer, made incremental by Robert Collins.
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* Test case failures have the exception printed after the log
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for your viewing pleasure.
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* InventoryEntry is now an abstract base class, use one of the
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concrete InventoryDirectory etc classes instead.
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* Branch raises an UnsupportedFormatError when it detects a
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bzr branch it cannot understand. This allows for precise
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handling of such circumstances.
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* Removed testsweet module so that tests can be run after
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bzr installed by 'bzr selftest'.
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* 'bzr selftest' command-line arguments can now be partial ids
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of tests to run, e.g. 'bzr selftest test_weave'
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* Fixed "branch -r" option.
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* Fix remote access to branches containing non-compressed history.
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* Better reliability of http server tests. (John Arbash-Meinel)
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* Merge graph maximum distance calculation fix. (Aaron Bentley)
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* Various minor bug in windows support have been fixed, largely in the
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test suite. Contributed by Alexander Belchenko.
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* Status now accepts a -r argument to give status between chosen
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revisions. Contributed by Heikki Paajanen.
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* Revision arguments no longer use +/-/= to control ranges, instead
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there is a 'before' namespace, which limits the successive namespace.
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For example '$ bzr log -r date:yesterday..before:date:today' will
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select everything from yesterday and before today. Contributed by
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* There is now a bzr.bat file created by distutils when building on
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Windows. Contributed by Alexander Belchenko.
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* Removed uuid() as it was unused.
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* Improved 'fetch' code for pulling revisions from one branch into
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another (used by pull, merged, etc.)
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* Adding a file whose parent directory is not versioned will
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implicitly add the parent, and so on up to the root. This means
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you should never need to explictly add a directory, they'll just
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get added when you add a file in the directory. Contributed by
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* Ignore .DS_Store (contains Mac metadata) by default. Patch from
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* If you set BZR_EDITOR in the environment, it is checked in
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preference to EDITOR and the config file for the interactive commit
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editing program. Related to this is a bugfix where a missing program
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set in EDITOR would cause editing to fail, now the fallback program
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for the operating system is still tried.
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* Files that are not directories/symlinks/regular files will no longer
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cause bzr to fail, it will just ignore them by default. You cannot add
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them to the tree though - they are not versionable.
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* Refactor xml packing/unpacking.
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* Fixed 'bzr mv' by Ollie Rutherfurd.
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* Fixed strange error when trying to access a nonexistent http
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* Make sure that the hashcache gets written out if it can't be
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* Various Windows fixes from Ollie Rutherfurd.
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* Quieten warnings about locking; patch from Matt Lavin.
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* ``bzr shell-complete`` command contributed by Clint Adams to
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help with intelligent shell completion.
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* New expert command ``bzr find-merge-base`` for debugging merges.
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* Much better merge support.
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* merge3 conflicts are now reported with markers like '<<<<<<<'
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(seven characters) which is the same as CVS and pleases things
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* ``bzr upgrade`` no longer fails when trying to fix trees that
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mention revisions that are not present.
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* Fixed bugs in listing plugins from ``bzr plugins``.
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* Fix case of $EDITOR containing options for the editor.
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* Fix log -r refusing to show the last revision.
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(Patch from Goffredo Baroncelli.)
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* ``bzr log --show-ids`` shows the revision ids of all parents.
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* Externally provided commands on your $BZRPATH no longer need
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to recognize --bzr-usage to work properly, and can just handle
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* Changed trace messages to go through the standard logging
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framework, so that they can more easily be redirected by
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* Python plugins, automatically loaded from the directories on
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BZR_PLUGIN_PATH or ~/.bzr.conf/plugins by default.
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* New 'bzr mkdir' command.
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* Commit mesage is fetched from an editor if not given on the
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command line; patch from Torsten Marek.
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* ``bzr log -m FOO`` displays commits whose message matches regexp
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* ``bzr add`` with no arguments adds everything under the current directory.
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* ``bzr mv`` does move or rename depending on its arguments, like
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* ``bzr missing`` command shows a summary of the differences
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between two trees. (Merged from John Arbash-Meinel.)
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* An email address for commits to a particular tree can be
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specified by putting it into .bzr/email within a branch. (Based
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on a patch from Heikki Paajanen.)
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* Faster working tree operations.
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* 3rd-party modules shipped with bzr are copied within the bzrlib
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python package, so that they can be installed by the setup
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script without clashing with anything already existing on the
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system. (Contributed by Gustavo Niemeyer.)
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* Moved plugins directory to bzrlib/, so that there's a standard
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plugin directory which is not only installed with bzr itself but
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is also available when using bzr from the development tree.
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BZR_PLUGIN_PATH and DEFAULT_PLUGIN_PATH are then added to the
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standard plugins directory.
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* When exporting to a tarball with ``bzr export --format tgz``, put
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everything under a top directory rather than dumping it into the
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current directory. This can be overridden with the ``--root``
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option. Patch from William Dodé and John Meinel.
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* New ``bzr upgrade`` command to upgrade the format of a branch,
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replacing ``bzr check --update``.
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* Files within store directories are no longer marked readonly on
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* Changed ``bzr log`` output to a more compact form suggested by
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John A Meinel. Old format is available with the ``--long`` or
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``-l`` option, patched by William Dodé.
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* By default the commit command refuses to record a revision with
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no changes unless the ``--unchanged`` option is given.
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* The ``--no-plugins``, ``--profile`` and ``--builtin`` command
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line options must come before the command name because they
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affect what commands are available; all other options must come
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after the command name because their interpretation depends on
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* ``branch`` and ``clone`` added as aliases for ``branch``.
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* Default log format is back to the long format; the compact one
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is available with ``--short``.
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* Fix bugs in committing only selected files or within a subdirectory.
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* ``bzr`` with no command now shows help rather than giving an
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error. Suggested by Michael Ellerman.
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* ``bzr status`` output format changed, because svn-style output
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doesn't really match the model of bzr. Now files are grouped by
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status and can be shown with their IDs. ``bzr status --all``
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shows all versioned files and unknown files but not ignored files.
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* ``bzr log`` runs from most-recent to least-recent, the reverse
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of the previous order. The previous behaviour can be obtained
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with the ``--forward`` option.
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* ``bzr inventory`` by default shows only filenames, and also ids
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if ``--show-ids`` is given, in which case the id is the second
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* New 'bzr whoami --email' option shows only the email component
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of the user identification, from Jo Vermeulen.
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* New ``bzr ignore PATTERN`` command.
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* Nicer error message for broken pipe, interrupt and similar
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conditions that don't indicate an internal error.
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* Add ``.*.sw[nop] .git .*.tmp *,v`` to default ignore patterns.
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* Per-branch locks keyed on ``.bzr/branch-lock``, available in
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either read or write mode.
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* New option ``bzr log --show-ids`` shows revision and file ids.
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* New usage ``bzr log FILENAME`` shows only revisions that
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* Changed format for describing changes in ``bzr log -v``.
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* New option ``bzr commit --file`` to take a message from a file,
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suggested by LarstiQ.
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* New syntax ``bzr status [FILE...]`` contributed by Bartosz
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Oler. File may be in a branch other than the working directory.
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* ``bzr log`` and ``bzr root`` can be given an http URL instead of
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* Commands can now be defined by external programs or scripts
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in a directory on $BZRPATH.
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* New "stat cache" avoids reading the contents of files if they
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haven't changed since the previous time.
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* If the Python interpreter is too old, try to find a better one
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or give an error. Based on a patch from Fredrik Lundh.
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* New optional parameter ``bzr info [BRANCH]``.
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* New form ``bzr commit SELECTED`` to commit only selected files.
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* New form ``bzr log -r FROM:TO`` shows changes in selected
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range; contributed by John A Meinel.
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* New option ``bzr diff --diff-options 'OPTS'`` allows passing
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options through to an external GNU diff.
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* New option ``bzr add --no-recurse`` to add a directory but not
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* ``bzr --version`` now shows more information if bzr is being run
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* Fixed diff format so that added and removed files will be
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handled properly by patch. Fix from Lalo Martins.
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* Various fixes for files whose names contain spaces or other
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* Converted black-box test suites from Bourne shell into Python;
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now run using ``./testbzr``. Various structural improvements to
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* testbzr by default runs the version of bzr found in the same
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directory as the tests, or the one given as the first parameter.
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* testbzr also runs the internal tests, so the only command
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required to check is just ``./testbzr``.
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* testbzr requires python2.4, but can be used to test bzr running
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under a different version.
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* Tests added for many other changes in this release.
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* Included ElementTree library upgraded to 1.2.6 by Fredrik Lundh.
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* Refactor command functions into Command objects based on HCT by
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* Better help messages for many commands.
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* Expose bzrlib.open_tracefile() to start the tracefile; until
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this is called trace messages are just discarded.
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* New internal function find_touching_revisions() and hidden
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command touching-revisions trace the changes to a given file.
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* Simpler and faster compare_inventories() function.
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* bzrlib.open_tracefile() takes a tracefilename parameter.
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* New AtomicFile class.
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* New developer commands ``added``, ``modified``.
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* Cope on Windows on python2.3 by using the weaker random seed.
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2.4 is now only recommended.
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* 'bzr diff' optionally takes a list of files to diff. Still a bit
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basic. Patch from QuantumG.
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* More default ignore patterns.
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* New 'bzr log --verbose' shows a list of files changed in the
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changeset. Patch from Sebastian Cote.
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* Roll over ~/.bzr.log if it gets too large.
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* Command abbreviations 'ci', 'st', 'stat', '?' based on a patch
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* New 'bzr help commands' based on a patch from Denys Duchier.
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* User email is determined by looking at $BZREMAIL or ~/.bzr.email
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or $EMAIL. All are decoded by the locale preferred encoding.
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If none of these are present user@hostname is used. The host's
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fully-qualified name is not used because that tends to fail when
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there are DNS problems.
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* New 'bzr whoami' command instead of username user-email.
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* Make commit safe for hardlinked bzr trees.
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* Some Unicode/locale fixes.
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* Partial workaround for difflib.unified_diff not handling
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trailing newlines properly.
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* Allow docstrings for help to be in PEP0257 format. Patch from
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* More tests in test.sh.
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* Write profile data to a temporary file not into working
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directory and delete it when done.
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* Smaller .bzr.log with process ids.
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* Fix opening of ~/.bzr.log on Windows. Patch from Andrew
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* Some improvements in handling paths on Windows, based on a patch
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