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bzr development version
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* The internal storage of history, and logical branch identity have now
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been split into Branch, and Repository. The common locking and file
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management routines are now in bzrlib.lockablefiles.
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(Aaron Bentley, Robert Collins, Martin Pool)
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* SFTP tests now shortcut the SSH negotiation, reducing test overhead
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for testing SFTP protocol support. (Robey Pointer)
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* .bzrignore is excluded from exports, on the grounds that it's a bzr
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internal-use file and may not be wanted. (Jamie Wilkinson)
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* The "bzr directories" command were removed in favor of the new
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--kind option to the "bzr inventory" command. To list all
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versioned directories, now use "bzr inventory --kind directory".
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* Under Windows configuration directory is now %APPDATA%\bazaar\2.0
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by default. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* The parent of Bzr configuration directory can be set by BZR_HOME
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environment variable. Now the path for it is searched in BZR_HOME, then
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in HOME. Under Windows the order is: BZR_HOME, APPDATA (usually
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points to C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Application Data), HOME.
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* Plugins with the same name in different directories in the bzr plugin
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path are no longer loaded: only the first successfully loaded one is
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used. (Robert Collins)
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* Use systems' external ssh command to open connections if possible.
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This gives better integration with user settings such as ProxyCommand.
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* Sftp paths can now be relative, or local, according to the lftp
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convention. Paths now take the form:
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sftp://user:pass@host:port/~/relative/path
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sftp://user:pass@host:port/absolute/path
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* Permissions on files underneath .bzr/ are inherited from the .bzr
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directory. So for a shared repository, simply doing 'chmod -R g+w .bzr/'
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will mean that future file will be created with group write permissions.
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* configure.in and config.guess are no longer in the builtin default
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* '.sw[nop]' pattern ignored, to ignore vim swap files for nameless
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files. (John Arbash Meinel, Martin Pool)
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* "bzr INIT dir" now initializes the specified directory, and creates
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it if it does not exist. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* New remerge command (Aaron Bentley)
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* Better zsh completion script. (Steve Borho)
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* 'bzr diff' now returns 1 when there are changes in the working
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tree. (Robert Collins)
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* 'bzr push' now exists and can push changes to a remote location.
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This uses the transport infrastructure, and can store the remote
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location in the ~/.bazaar/branches.conf configuration file.
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* Test directories are only kept if the test fails and the user requests
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* Tweaks to short log printing
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* Added branch nicks, new nick command, printing them in log output.
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* If $BZR_PDB is set, pop into the debugger when an uncaught exception
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* Accept 'bzr resolved' (an alias for 'bzr resolve'), as this is
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the same as Subversion. (Martin Pool)
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* New ftp transport support (on ftplib), for ftp:// and aftp://
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URLs. (Daniel Silverstone)
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* Commit editor temporary files now start with 'bzr_log.', to allow
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text editors to match the file name and set up appropriate modes or
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settings. (Magnus Therning)
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* Improved performance when integrating changes from a remote weave.
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* Sftp will attempt to cache the connection, so it is more likely that
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a connection will be reused, rather than requiring multiple password
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* bzr revno now takes an optional argument indicating the branch whose
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revno should be printed. (Michael Ellerman)
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* bzr cat defaults to printing the last version of the file.
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(#3632, Matthieu Moy)
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* New global option 'bzr --lsprof COMMAND' runs bzr under the lsprof
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profiler. (Denys Duchier)
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* Faster commits by reading only the headers of affected weave files.
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* 'bzr add' now takes a --dry-run parameter which shows you what would be
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added, but doesn't actually add anything. (Michael Ellerman)
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* bzr add now lists how many files were ignored per glob. add --verbose
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lists the specific files. (Aaron Bentley)
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* SFTP can walk up to the root path without index errors. (Robert Collins)
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* Fix bugs in running bzr with 'python -O'. (Martin Pool)
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* Error when run with -OO
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* Fix bug in reporting http errors that don't have an http error code.
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* Handle more cases of pipe errors in display commands
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* Change status to 3 for all errors
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* Files that are added and unlinked before committing are completely
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ignored by diff and status
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* Stores with some compressed texts and some uncompressed texts are now
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able to be used. (John A Meinel)
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* Fix for bzr pull failing sometimes under windows
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* Fix for sftp transport under windows when using interactive auth
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* Show files which are both renamed and modified as such in 'bzr
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status' output. (#4503, Daniel Silverstone)
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* Make annotate cope better with revisions committed without a valid
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email address. (Marien Zwart)
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* Fix representation of tab characters in commit messages. (Harald
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* List of plugin directories in BZR_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable is
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now parsed properly under Windows. (Alexander Belchenko)
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* Show number of revisions pushed/pulled/merged. (Robey Pointer)
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* Keep a cached copy of the basis inventory to speed up operations
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that need to refer to it. (Johan Rydberg, Martin Pool)
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* Fix bugs in bzr status display of non-ascii characters. (Martin
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* Remove Makefile.in from default ignore list. (#6413, Tollef Fog
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* Fix failure in 'bzr added'. (Nathan McCallum, Martin Pool)
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* Fix selftest asking for passwords when there are no SFTP keys.
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(Robey Pointer, Jelmer Vernooij)
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* Fix selftest run with 'python -O'. (Martin Pool)
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* Fix HTTP tests under Windows. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* Make tests work even if HOME is not set (Aaron Bentley)
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* Updated build_tree to use fixed line-endings for tests which read
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the file cotents and compare. Make some tests use this to pass under
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Windows. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* Skip stat and symlink tests under Windows. (Alexander Belchenko)
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* Delay in selftest/testhashcash is now issued under win32 and Cygwin.
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* Use terminal width to align verbose test output. (Martin Pool)
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* Blackbox tests are maintained within the bzrlib.tests.blackbox directory.
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If adding a new test script please add that to
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bzrlib.tests.blackbox.__init__. (Robert Collins)
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* Much better error message if one of the test suites can't be
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imported. (Martin Pool)
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* Make check now runs the test suite twice - once with the default locale,
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and once with all locales forced to C, to expose bugs. This is not
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trivially done within python, so for now its only triggered by running
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Make check. Integrators and packagers who wish to check for full
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platform support should run 'make check' to test the source.
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* Tests can now run TestSkipped if they can't execute for any reason.
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(Martin Pool) (NB: TestSkipped should only be raised for correctable
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reasons - see the wiki spec ImprovingBzrTestSuite).
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* Test sftp with relative, absolute-in-homedir and absolute-not-in-homedir
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paths for the transport tests. Introduce blackbox remote sftp tests that
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test the same permutations. (Robert Collins, Robey Pointer)
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* Transport implementation tests are now independent of the local file
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system, which allows tests for esoteric transports, and for features
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not available in the local file system. They also repeat for variations
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on the URL scheme that can introduce issues in the transport code,
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see bzrlib.transport.TransportTestProviderAdapter() for this.
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* TestCase.build_tree uses the transport interface to build trees, pass
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in a transport parameter to give it an existing connection.
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* WorkingTree.pull has been split across Branch and WorkingTree,
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to allow Branch only pulls. (Robert Collins)
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* commands.display_command now returns the result of the decorated
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function. (Robert Collins)
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* LocationConfig now has a set_user_option(key, value) call to save
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a setting in its matching location section (a new one is created
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if needed). (Robert Collins)
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* Branch has two new methods, get_push_location and set_push_location
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to respectively, get and set the push location. (Robert Collins)
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* commands.register_command now takes an optional flag to signal that
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the registrant is planning to decorate an existing command. When
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given multiple plugins registering a command is not an error, and
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the original command class (whether built in or a plugin based one) is
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returned to the caller. There is a new error 'MustUseDecorated' for
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signalling when a wrapping command should switch to the original
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version. (Robert Collins)
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* Some option parsing errors will raise 'BzrOptionError', allowing
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granular detection for decorating commands. (Robert Collins).
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* Branch.read_working_inventory has moved to
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WorkingTree.read_working_inventory. This necessitated changes to
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Branch.get_root_id, and a move of Branch.set_inventory to WorkingTree
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as well. To make it clear that a WorkingTree cannot always be obtained
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Branch.working_tree() will raise 'errors.NoWorkingTree' if one cannot
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be obtained. (Robert Collins)
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* All pending merges operations from Branch are now on WorkingTree.
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* The follow operations from Branch have moved to WorkingTree:
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* bzrlib.add.smart_add_branch is now smart_add_tree. (Robert Collins)
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* New "rio" serialization format, similar to rfc-822. (Martin Pool)
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* Rename selftests to `bzrlib.tests.test_foo`. (John A Meinel, Martin
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* bzrlib.plugin.all_plugins has been changed from an attribute to a
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query method. (Robert Collins)
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* New options to read only the table-of-contents of a weave.
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* Raise NoSuchFile when someone tries to add a non-existant file.
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* Simplify handling of DivergedBranches in cmd_pull().
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* Branch.controlfile* logic has moved to lockablefiles.LockableFiles, which
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is exposed as Branch().control_files. Also this has been altered with the
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controlfile pre/suffix replaced by simple method names like 'get' and
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'put'. (Aaron Bentley, Robert Collins).
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* Deprecated functions and methods can now be marked as such using the
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bzrlib.symbol_versioning module. Marked method have their docstring
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updated and will issue a DeprecationWarning using the warnings module
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when they are used. (Robert Collins)
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* bzrlib.osutils.safe_unicode now exists to provide parameter coercion
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for functions that need unicode strings. (Robert Collins)
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* pull now takes --verbose to show you what revisions are added or removed
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* merge now takes a --show-base option to include the base text in
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* The config files are now read using ConfigObj, so '=' should be used as
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a separator, not ':'.
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* New 'bzr commit --strict' option refuses to commit if there are
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any unknown files in the tree. To commit, make sure all files are
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either ignored, added, or deleted. (Michael Ellerman)
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* The config directory is now ~/.bazaar, and there is a single file
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~/.bazaar/bazaar.conf storing email, editor and other preferences.
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* 'bzr add' no longer takes a --verbose option, and a --quiet option
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has been added that suppresses all output.
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* Improved zsh completion support in contrib/zsh, from Clint
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* Builtin 'bzr annotate' command, by Martin Pool with improvements from
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* 'bzr check' now accepts -v for verbose reporting, and checks for
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ghosts in the branch. (Robert Collins)
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* New command 're-sign' which will regenerate the gpg signature for
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a revision. (Robert Collins)
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* If you set check_signatures=require for a path in
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~/.bazaar/branches.conf then bzr will invoke your
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gpg_signing_command (defaults to gpg) and record a digital signature
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of your commit. (Robert Collins)
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* New sftp transport, based on Paramiko. (Robey Pointer)
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* 'bzr pull' now accepts '--clobber' which will discard local changes
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and make this branch identical to the source branch. (Robert Collins)
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* Just give a quieter warning if a plugin can't be loaded, and
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put the details in .bzr.log. (Martin Pool)
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* 'bzr branch' will now set the branch-name to the last component of the
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output directory, if one was supplied.
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* If the option 'post_commit' is set to one (or more) python function
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names (must be in the bzrlib namespace), then they will be invoked
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after the commit has completed, with the branch and revision_id as
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parameters. (Robert Collins)
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* Merge now has a retcode of 1 when conflicts occur. (Robert Collins)
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* --merge-type weave is now supported for file contents. Tree-shape
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changes are still three-way based. (Martin Pool, Aaron Bentley)
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* 'bzr check' allows the first revision on revision-history to have
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parents - something that is expected for cheap checkouts, and occurs
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when conversions from baz do not have all history. (Robert Collins).
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* 'bzr merge' can now graft unrelated trees together, if your specify
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0 as a base. (Aaron Bentley)
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* 'bzr commit branch' and 'bzr commit branch/file1 branch/file2' now work
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* Add '.sconsign*' to default ignore list. (Alexander Belchenko)
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* 'bzr merge --reprocess' minimizes conflicts
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* The 'bzr selftest --pattern' option for has been removed, now
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test specifiers on the command line can be simple strings, or
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regexps, or both. (Robert Collins)
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* Passing -v to selftest will now show the time each test took to
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complete, which will aid in analysing performance regressions and
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related questions. (Robert Collins)
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* 'bzr selftest' runs all tests, even if one fails, unless '--one'
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is given. (Martin Pool)
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* There is a new method for TestCaseInTempDir, assertFileEqual, which
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will check that a given content is equal to the content of the named
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file. (Robert Collins)
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* Fix test suite's habit of leaving many temporary log files in $TMPDIR.
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* New 'testament' command and concept for making gpg-signatures
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of revisions that are not tied to a particular internal
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representation. (Martin Pool).
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* Per-revision properties ('revprops') as key-value associated
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strings on each revision created when the revision is committed.
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Intended mainly for the use of external tools. (Martin Pool).
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* Config options have moved from bzrlib.osutils to bzrlib.config.
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* Improved command line option definitions allowing explanations
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for individual options, among other things. Contributed by
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* Config options have moved from bzrlib.osutils to bzrlib.config.
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Configuration is now done via the config.Config interface:
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Depending on whether you have a Branch, a Location or no information
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available, construct a *Config, and use its signature_checking,
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username and user_email methods. (Robert Collins)
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* Plugins are now loaded under bzrlib.plugins, not bzrlib.plugin, and
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they are made available for other plugins to use. You should not
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import other plugins during the __init__ of your plugin though, as
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no ordering is guaranteed, and the plugins directory is not on the
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python path. (Robert Collins)
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* Branch.relpath has been moved to WorkingTree.relpath. WorkingTree no
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no longer takes an inventory, rather it takes an option branch
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parameter, and if None is given will open the branch at basedir
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implicitly. (Robert Collins)
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* Cleaner exception structure and error reporting. Suggested by
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Scott James Remnant. (Martin Pool)
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* Branch.remove has been moved to WorkingTree, which has also gained
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lock_read, lock_write and unlock methods for convenience. (Robert
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* Two decorators, needs_read_lock and needs_write_lock have been added
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to the branch module. Use these to cause a function to run in a
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read or write lock respectively. (Robert Collins)
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* Branch.open_containing now returns a tuple (Branch, relative-path),
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which allows direct access to the common case of 'get me this file
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from its branch'. (Robert Collins)
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* Transports can register using register_lazy_transport, and they
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will be loaded when first used. (Martin Pool)
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* 'pull' has been factored out of the command as WorkingTree.pull().
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A new option to WorkingTree.pull has been added, clobber, which will
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ignore diverged history and pull anyway.
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* config.Config has a 'get_user_option' call that accepts an option name.
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This will be looked up in branches.conf and bazaar.conf as normal.
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It is intended that this be used by plugins to support options -
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options of built in programs should have specific methods on the config.
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* merge.merge_inner now has tempdir as an optional parameter. (Robert
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* Tree.kind is not recorded at the top level of the hierarchy, as it was
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missing on EmptyTree, leading to a bug with merge on EmptyTrees.
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* WorkingTree.__del__ has been removed, it was non deterministic and not
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doing what it was intended to. See WorkingTree.__init__ for a comment
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about future directions. (Robert Collins/Martin Pool)
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* bzrlib.transport.http has been modified so that only 404 urllib errors
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are returned as NoSuchFile. Other exceptions will propogate as normal.
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This allows debuging of actual errors. (Robert Collins)
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* bzrlib.transport.Transport now accepts *ONLY* url escaped relative paths
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to apis like 'put', 'get' and 'has'. This is to provide consistent
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behaviour - it operates on url's only. (Robert Collins)
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* Transports can register using register_lazy_transport, and they
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will be loaded when first used. (Martin Pool)
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* 'merge_flex' no longer calls conflict_handler.finalize(), instead that
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is called by merge_inner. This is so that the conflict count can be
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retrieved (and potentially manipulated) before returning to the caller
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of merge_inner. Likewise 'merge' now returns the conflict count to the
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caller. (Robert Collins)
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* 'revision.revision_graph can handle having only partial history for
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a revision - that is no revisions in the graph with no parents.
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* New builtins.branch_files uses the standard file_list rules to produce
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a branch and a list of paths, relative to that branch (Aaron Bentley)
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* New TestCase.addCleanup facility.
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* New bzrlib.version_info tuple (similar to sys.version_info), which can
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be used by programs importing bzrlib.
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* Better handling of branches in directories with non-ascii names.
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(Joel Rosdahl, Panagiotis Papadakos)
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* Upgrades of trees with no commits will not fail due to accessing
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[-1] in the revision-history. (Andres Salomon)
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* Fix problem in pulling over http from machines that do not
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allow directories to be listed.
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* Avoid harmless warning about invalid hash cache after
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upgrading branch format.
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* Avoid some unnecessary http operations in branch and pull.
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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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* Symlink support: working with symlinks when not in the root of a
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bzr tree was broken, patch from Scott James Remnant.
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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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