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* The revision specifier "revno:" is extended to accept the syntax
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revno:N:branch. For example,
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revno:42:http://bazaar-vcs.org/bzr/bzr.dev/ means revision 42 in
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bzr.dev. (Matthieu Moy)
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* No default ignore rules are applied by bzr - only the rules in .bzrignore
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are considered. This fixes bugs with default rules being enforced no
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matter what. The old list of ignore rules from bzr is available by
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running 'bzr ignore --old-default-rules'.
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* Tests updates to ensure proper URL handling, UNICODE support, and
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proper printing when the user's terminal encoding cannot display
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the path of a file that has been versioned.
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``bzr branch`` can take a target URL rather than only a local directory.
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Branch.get_parent()/set_parent() now save a relative path if possible,
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and normalize the parent based on root, allowing access across
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different transports. (John Arbash Meinel, Wouter van Heyst, Martin Pool)
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(Malone #48906, #42699, #40675, #5281, #3980, #36363, #43689,
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* On Unix, detect terminal width using an ioctl not just $COLUMNS.
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Use terminal width for single-line logs from ``bzr log --line`` and
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pending-merge display. (Robert Widhopf-Fenk, Gustavo Niemeyer)
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* On Windows, detect terminal width using GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo.
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* Speedup improvement for 'date:'-revision search. (Guillaume Pinot).
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* Show the correct number of revisions pushed when pushing a new branch.
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* 'bzr selftest' now shows a progress bar with the number of tests, and
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progress made. 'make check' shows tests in -v mode, to be more useful
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for the PQM status window. (Robert Collins).
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* 'bzr selftest --benchmark' will run a new benchmarking selftest.
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'bzr selftest --benchmark --lsprof-timed' will use lsprofile to generate
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profile data for the individual profiled calls, allowing for fine
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grained analysis of performance.
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(Robert Collins, Martin Pool).
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* 'bzr commit' shows a progress bar. This is useful for commits over sftp
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where commit can take an appreciable time. (Robert Collins)
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* 'bzr add' is now less verbose in telling you what ignore globs were
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matched by files being ignored. Instead it just tells you how many
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were ignored (because you might reasonably be expecting none to be
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ignored). 'bzr add -v' is unchanged and will report every ignored
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file. (Robert Collins).
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* ftp now has a test server if medusa is installed. As part of testing,
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ftp support has been improved, including support for supplying a
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non-standard port. (John Arbash Meinel).
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* 'bzr log --line' shows the revision number, and uses only the
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first line of the log message (#5162, Alexander Belchenko;
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* 'bzr status' has had the --all option removed. The 'bzr ls' command
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should be used to retrieve all versioned files. (Robert Collins)
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* 'bzr bundle OTHER/BRANCH' will create a bundle which can be sent
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over email, and applied on the other end, while maintaining ancestry.
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This bundle can be applied with either 'bzr merge' or 'bzr pull',
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the same way you would apply another branch.
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(John Arbash Meinel, Aaron Bentley)
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* 'branches.conf' has been changed to 'locations.conf', since it can apply
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to more locations than just branch locations.
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* 'bzr whoami' can now be used to set your identity from the command line,
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for a branch or globally. (Robey Pointer)
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* 'bzr checkout' now aliased to 'bzr co', and 'bzr annotate' to 'bzr ann'.
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* 'bzr revert DIRECTORY' now reverts the contents of the directory as well.
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* 'bzr get sftp://foo' gives a better error when paramiko is not present.
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Also updates things like 'http+pycurl://' if pycurl is not present.
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(John Arbash Meinel) (Malone #47821, #52204)
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* New env variable BZR_PROGRESS_BAR, sets the default progress bar type.
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Can be set to 'none' or 'dummy' to disable the progress bar, 'dots' or
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'tty' to create the respective type. (John Arbash Meinel, #42197, #51107)
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* Improve the help text for 'bzr diff' to explain what various options do.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #6391)
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* 'bzr uncommit -r 10' now uncommits revisions 11.. rather than uncommitting
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revision 10. This makes -r10 more in line with what other commands do.
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'bzr uncommit' also now saves the pending merges of the revisions that
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were removed. So it is safe to uncommit after a merge, fix something,
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and commit again. (John Arbash Meinel, #32526, #31426)
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* Fix shadowed definition of TestLocationConfig that caused some
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tests not to run. (#32587, Erik Bågfors, Michael Ellerman,
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* Fix unnecessary requirement of sign-my-commits that it be run from
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a working directory. (Martin Pool, Robert Collins)
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* 'bzr push location' will only remember the push location if it succeeds
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in connecting to the remote location. (#49742, John Arbash Meinel)
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* 'bzr revert' no longer toggles the executable bit on win32
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(#45010, John Arbash Meinel)
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* Handle broken pipe under win32 correctly. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* sftp tests now work correctly on win32 if you have a newer paramiko
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* Cleanup win32 test suite, and general cleanup of places where
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file handles were being held open. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* When specifying filenames for 'diff -r x..y', the name of the file in the
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working directory can be used, even if its name is different in both x
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* File-ids containing single- or double-quotes are handled correctly by
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push. (#52227, Aaron Bentley)
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* Normalize unicode filenames to ensure cross-platform consistency.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #43689)
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* The argument parser can now handle '-' as an argument. Currently
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no code interprets it specially (it is mostly handled as a file named
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'-'). But plugins, and future operations can use it.
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(John Arbash meinel, #50984)
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* Bundles can properly read binary files with a plain '\r' in them.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #51927)
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* Tuning iter_entries() to be more efficient (John Arbash Meinel, #5444)
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* Lots of win32 fixes (the test suite passes again).
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(John Arbash Meinel, #50155)
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* Handle openbsd returning None for sys.getfilesystemencoding() (#41183)
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* Support ftp APPE (append) to allow Knits to be used over ftp (#42592)
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* Removals are only committed if they match the filespec (or if there is
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no filespec). (#46635, Aaron Bentley)
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* smart-add recurses through all supplied directories
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(John Arbash Meinel, #52578)
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* Combine the ignore rules into a single regex rather than looping over
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them to reduce the threshold where N^2 behaviour occurs in operations
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like status. (Jan Hudec, Robert Collins).
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* 'bzr push' should only push the ancestry of the current revision, not
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all of the history in the repository. This is especially important for
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shared repositories. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* bzrlib.delta.compare_trees now iterates in alphabetically sorted order,
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rather than randomly walking the inventories. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* Doctests are now run in temporary directories which are cleaned up when
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they finish, rather than using special ScratchDir/ScratchBranch objects.
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* Split ``check`` into separate methods on the branch and on the repository,
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so that it can be specialized in ways that are useful or efficient for
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different formats. (Martin Pool, Robert Collins)
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* Deprecate Repository.all_revision_ids; most methods don't really need
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the global revision graph but only that part leading up to a particular
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revision. (Martin Pool, Robert Collins)
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* Add a BzrDirFormat control_formats list which allows for control formats
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that do not use '.bzr' to store their data - i.e. '.svn', '.hg' etc.
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(Robert Collins, Jelmer Vernooij).
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* bzrlib.diff.external_diff can be redirected to any file-like object.
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Uses subprocess instead of spawnvp.
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(#4047, #48914, James Henstridge, John Arbash Meinel)
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* New command line option '--profile-imports', which will install a custom
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importer to log time to import modules and regex compilation time to
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sys.stderr (John Arbash Meinel)
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* setup.py failed to install launchpad plugin. (Martin Pool)
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* Fix failure to commit a merge in a checkout. (Martin Pool,
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Robert Collins, Erik Bågfors, #43959)
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* Nicer messages from 'commit' in the case of renames, and correct
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messages when a merge has occured. (Robert Collins, Martin Pool)
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* Separate functionality from assert statements as they are skipped in
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optimized mode of python. Add the same check to pending merges.
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(#44443, Olaf Conradi)
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* Do not show the None revision in output of bzr ancestry. (Olaf Conradi)
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* Add info on standalone branches without a working tree.
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(#44155, Olaf Conradi)
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* Fix bug in knits when raising InvalidRevisionId. (#44284, Olaf Conradi)
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* Make editor invocation comply with Debian Policy. First check
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environment variables VISUAL and EDITOR, then try editor from
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alternatives system. If that all fails, fall back to the pre-defined
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list of editors. (#42904, Olaf Conradi)
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* New 'register-branch' command registers a public branch into
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Launchpad.net, where it can be associated with bugs, etc.
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(Martin Pool, Bjorn Tillenius, Robert Collins)
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* New public api in InventoryEntry - 'describe_change(old, new)' which
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provides a human description of the changes between two old and
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new. (Robert Collins, Martin Pool)
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* Fix test case for bzr info in upgrading a standalone branch to metadir,
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uses bzrlib api now. (Olaf Conradi)
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NOTES WHEN UPGRADING:
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Release 0.8 of bzr introduces a new format for history storage, called
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'knit', as an evolution of to the 'weave' format used in 0.7. Local
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and remote operations are faster using knits than weaves. Several
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operations including 'init', 'init-repo', and 'upgrade' take a
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--format option that controls this. Branching from an existing branch
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will keep the same format.
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It is possible to merge, pull and push between branches of different
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formats but this is slower than moving data between homogenous
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branches. It is therefore recommended (but not required) that you
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upgrade all branches for a project at the same time. Information on
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formats is shown by 'bzr info'.
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bzr 0.8 now allows creation of 'repositories', which hold the history
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of files and revisions for several branches. Previously bzr kept all
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the history for a branch within the .bzr directory at the root of the
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branch, and this is still the default. To create a repository, use
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the new 'bzr init-repo' command. Branches exist as directories under
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the repository and contain just a small amount of information
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indicating the current revision of the branch.
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bzr 0.8 also supports 'checkouts', which are similar to in cvs and
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subversion. Checkouts are associated with a branch (optionally in a
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repository), which contains all the historical information. The
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result is that a checkout can be deleted without losing any
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already-committed revisions. A new 'update' command is also available.
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Repositories and checkouts are not supported with the 0.7 storage
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format. To use them you must upgrad to either knits, or to the
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'metaweave' format, which uses weaves but changes the .bzr directory
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bzr development version
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* Default log format can be set in configuration and plugins can register
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their own formatters. (Erik Bågfors)
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* New 'reconcile' command will check branch consistency and repair indexes
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that can become out of sync in pre 0.8 formats. (Robert Collins,
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* New 'bzr init --format' and 'bzr upgrade --format' option to control
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what storage format is created or produced. (Robert Collins,
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* Add parent location to 'bzr info', if there is one. (Olaf Conradi)
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* New developer commands 'weave-list' and 'weave-join'. (Martin Pool)
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* New 'init-repository' command, plus support for repositories in 'init'
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and 'branch' (Aaron Bentley, Erik Bågfors, Robert Collins)
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* Improve output of 'info' command. Show all relevant locations related to
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working tree, branch and repository. Use kibibytes for binary quantities.
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Fix off-by-one error in missing revisions of working tree. Make 'info'
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work on branches, repositories and remote locations. Show locations
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relative to the shared repository, if applicable. Show locking status
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of locations. (Olaf Conradi)
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* Diff and merge now safely handle binary files. (Aaron Bentley)
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* 'pull' and 'push' now normalise the revision history, so that any two
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branches with the same tip revision will have the same output from 'log'.
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* 'merge' accepts --remember option to store parent location, like 'push'
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and 'pull'. (Olaf Conradi)
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* bzr status and diff when files given as arguments do not exist
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in the relevant trees. (Martin Pool, #3619)
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* Add '.hg' to the default ignore list. (Martin Pool)
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* 'knit' is now the default disk format. This improves disk performance and
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utilization, increases incremental pull performance, robustness with SFTP
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and allows checkouts over SFTP to perform acceptably.
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The initial Knit code was contributed by Johan Rydberg based on a
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specification by Martin Pool.
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(Robert Collins, Aaron Bentley, Johan Rydberg, Martin Pool).
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* New tool to generate all-in-one html version of the manual. (Alexander
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* Hitting CTRL-C while doing an SFTP push will no longer cause stale locks
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to be left in the SFTP repository. (Robert Collins, Martin Pool).
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* New option 'diff --prefix' to control how files are named in diff
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output, with shortcuts '-p0' and '-p1' corresponding to the options for
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GNU patch. (Alexander Belchenko, Goffredo Baroncelli, Martin Pool)
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* Add --revision option to 'annotate' command. (Olaf Conradi)
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* If bzr shows an unexpected revision-history after pulling (perhaps due
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to a reweave) it can now be corrected by 'bzr reconcile'.
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* Commit is now verbose by default, and shows changed filenames and the
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new revision number. (Robert Collins, Martin Pool)
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* Unify 'mv', 'move', 'rename'. (#5379, Matthew Fuller)
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* 'bzr -h' shows help. (#35940, Martin Pool, Ian Bicking)
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* Make 'pull' and 'push' remember location on failure using --remember.
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* For compatibility, make old format for using weaves inside metadir
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available as 'metaweave' format. Rename format 'metadir' to 'default'.
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Clean up help for option --format in commands 'init', 'init-repo' and
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'upgrade'. (Olaf Conradi)
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