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bzr-0.0.5 NOT RELEASED YET
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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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* 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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* The FTP transport now tries to reconnect after a temporary
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failure. ftp put is made atomic. (Matthieu Moy)
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* The FTP transport now maintains a pool of connections, and
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reuses them to avoid multiple connections to the same host (like
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sftp did). (Daniel Silverstone)
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* The bzr_man.py file has been removed. To create the man page now,
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use ./generate_docs.py man. The new program can also create other files.
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Run "python generate_docs.py --help" for usage information. (Hans
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Ulrich Niedermann & James Blackwell).
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* Man Page now gives full help (James Blackwell). Help also updated to
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reflect user config now being stored in .bazaar (Hans Ulrich
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* It's now possible to set aliases in bazaar.conf (Erik Bågfors)
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* Pull now accepts a --revision argument (Erik Bågfors)
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* 'bzr re-sign' now allows multiple revisions to be supplied on the command
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line. You can now use the following command to sign all of your old commits.
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find .bzr/revision-store// -name my@email-* \
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| sed 's/.*\/\/..\///' \
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* Upgrade can now upgrade over the network. (Robert Collins)
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* Two new commands 'bzr checkout' and 'bzr update' allow for CVS/SVN-alike
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behaviour. By default they will cache history in the checkout, but
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with --lightweight almost all data is kept in the master branch.
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* 'revert' unversions newly-versioned files, instead of deleting them.
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* 'merge' is more robust. Conflict messages have changed.
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* 'merge' and 'revert' no longer clobber existing files that end in '~' or
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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, John 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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* 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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* 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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* Transports can now raise DependencyNotPresent if they need a library
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which is not installed, and then another implementation will be
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* Remove obsolete (and no-op) `decode` parameter to `Transport.get`.
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* Using Tree Transform for merge, revert, tree-building
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* WorkingTree.create, Branch.create, WorkingTree.create_standalone,
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Branch.initialize are now deprecated. Please see BzrDir.create_* for
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replacement API's. (Robert Collins)
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* New BzrDir class represents the .bzr control directory and manages
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formatting issues. (Robert Collins)
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* New repository.InterRepository class encapsulates Repository to
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Repository actions and allows for clean selection of optimised code
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paths. (Robert Collins)
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* bzrlib.fetch.fetch and bzrlib.fetch.greedy_fetch are now deprecated,
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please use 'branch.fetch' or 'repository.fetch' depending on your
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needs. (Robert Collins)
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* deprecated methods now have a 'is_deprecated' flag on them that can
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be checked, if you need to determine whether a given callable is
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deprecated at runtime. (Robert Collins)
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* Progress bars are now nested - see
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bzrlib.ui.ui_factory.nested_progress_bar. (Robert Collins, Robey Pointer)
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* New API call get_format_description() for each type of format.
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* Changed branch.set_parent() to accept None to remove parent.
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* Deprecated BzrError AmbiguousBase. (Olaf Conradi)
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* WorkingTree.branch is now a read only property. (Robert Collins)
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* bzrlib.ui.text.TextUIFactory now accepts a bar_type parameter which
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can be None or a factory that will create a progress bar. This is
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useful for testing or for overriding the bzrlib.progress heuristic.
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* New API method get_physical_lock_status() to query locks present on a
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transport. (Olaf Conradi)
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* Repository.reconcile now takes a thorough keyword parameter to allow
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requesting an indepth reconciliation, rather than just a data-loss
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check. (Robert Collins)
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* bzrlib.ui.ui_factory protocol now supports 'get_boolean' to prompt
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the user for yes/no style input. (Robert Collins)
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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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* Branch formats are now tested once per implementation (see bzrlib.
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tests.branch_implementations. This is analagous to the transport
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interface tests, and has been followed up with working tree,
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repository and BzrDir tests. (Robert Collins)
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* New test base class TestCaseWithTransport provides a transport aware
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test environment, useful for testing any transport-interface using
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code. The test suite option --transport controls the transport used
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by this class (when its not being used as part of implementation
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contract testing). (Robert Collins)
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* Close logging handler on disabling the test log. This will remove the
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handler from the internal list inside python's logging module,
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preventing shutdown from closing it twice. (Olaf Conradi)
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* Move test case for uncommit to blackbox tests. (Olaf Conradi)
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* run_bzr and run_bzr_captured now accept a 'stdin="foo"' parameter which
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will provide String("foo") to the command as its stdin.
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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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* 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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occurs. (Martin Pool)
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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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(Goffredo Baroncelli)
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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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* 'bzr missing' now supports displaying changes in diverged trees and can
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be limited to show what either end of the comparison is missing.
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(Aaron Bently, with a little prompting from Daniel Silverstone)
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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
737
a branch and a list of paths, relative to that branch (Aaron Bentley)
739
* New TestCase.addCleanup facility.
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* New bzrlib.version_info tuple (similar to sys.version_info), which can
742
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)
757
* 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
783
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
801
for files with only a change to their executable status.
802
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.
817
* '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
819
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.
832
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
836
merge conflicts respectively. A conflicted tree cannot be committed
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in. Contributed by Aaron Bentley.
839
* 'rm' is now an alias for 'remove'.
841
* Stores now split out their content in a single byte prefixed hash,
842
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.
855
* Test case failures have the exception printed after the log
856
for your viewing pleasure.
858
* InventoryEntry is now an abstract base class, use one of the
859
concrete InventoryDirectory etc classes instead.
861
* Branch raises an UnsupportedFormatError when it detects a
862
bzr branch it cannot understand. This allows for precise
863
handling of such circumstances.
868
* 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
872
of tests to run, e.g. 'bzr selftest test_weave'
879
* Fixed "branch -r" option.
881
* Fix remote access to branches containing non-compressed history.
884
* Better reliability of http server tests. (John Arbash-Meinel)
886
* Merge graph maximum distance calculation fix. (Aaron Bentley)
888
* Various minor bug in windows support have been fixed, largely in the
889
test suite. Contributed by Alexander Belchenko.
893
* Status now accepts a -r argument to give status between chosen
894
revisions. Contributed by Heikki Paajanen.
896
* Revision arguments no longer use +/-/= to control ranges, instead
897
there is a 'before' namespace, which limits the successive namespace.
898
For example '$ bzr log -r date:yesterday..before:date:today' will
899
select everything from yesterday and before today. Contributed by
902
* There is now a bzr.bat file created by distutils when building on
903
Windows. Contributed by Alexander Belchenko.
907
* Removed uuid() as it was unused.
909
* Improved 'fetch' code for pulling revisions from one branch into
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another (used by pull, merged, etc.)
917
* Adding a file whose parent directory is not versioned will
918
implicitly add the parent, and so on up to the root. This means
919
you should never need to explictly add a directory, they'll just
920
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
927
preference to EDITOR and the config file for the interactive commit
928
editing program. Related to this is a bugfix where a missing program
929
set in EDITOR would cause editing to fail, now the fallback program
930
for the operating system is still tried.
932
* Files that are not directories/symlinks/regular files will no longer
933
cause bzr to fail, it will just ignore them by default. You cannot add
934
them to the tree though - they are not versionable.
939
* Refactor xml packing/unpacking.
943
* Fixed 'bzr mv' by Ollie Rutherfurd.
945
* Fixed strange error when trying to access a nonexistent http
948
* Make sure that the hashcache gets written out if it can't be
954
* Various Windows fixes from Ollie Rutherfurd.
956
* Quieten warnings about locking; patch from Matt Lavin.
963
* ``bzr shell-complete`` command contributed by Clint Adams to
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help with intelligent shell completion.
966
* New expert command ``bzr find-merge-base`` for debugging merges.
971
* Much better merge support.
973
* merge3 conflicts are now reported with markers like '<<<<<<<'
974
(seven characters) which is the same as CVS and pleases things
980
* ``bzr upgrade`` no longer fails when trying to fix trees that
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mention revisions that are not present.
983
* Fixed bugs in listing plugins from ``bzr plugins``.
985
* Fix case of $EDITOR containing options for the editor.
987
* Fix log -r refusing to show the last revision.
988
(Patch from Goffredo Baroncelli.)
993
* ``bzr log --show-ids`` shows the revision ids of all parents.
995
* Externally provided commands on your $BZRPATH no longer need
996
to recognize --bzr-usage to work properly, and can just handle
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* Changed trace messages to go through the standard logging
1003
framework, so that they can more easily be redirected by
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bzr-0.0.6 2005-08-18
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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.
1017
* Commit mesage is fetched from an editor if not given on the
1018
command line; patch from Torsten Marek.
1020
* ``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.
1025
* ``bzr mv`` does move or rename depending on its arguments, like
1028
* ``bzr missing`` command shows a summary of the differences
1029
between two trees. (Merged from John Arbash-Meinel.)
1031
* An email address for commits to a particular tree can be
1032
specified by putting it into .bzr/email within a branch. (Based
1033
on a patch from Heikki Paajanen.)
1038
* Faster working tree operations.
1043
* 3rd-party modules shipped with bzr are copied within the bzrlib
1044
python package, so that they can be installed by the setup
1045
script without clashing with anything already existing on the
1046
system. (Contributed by Gustavo Niemeyer.)
1048
* Moved plugins directory to bzrlib/, so that there's a standard
1049
plugin directory which is not only installed with bzr itself but
1050
is also available when using bzr from the development tree.
1051
BZR_PLUGIN_PATH and DEFAULT_PLUGIN_PATH are then added to the
1052
standard plugins directory.
1054
* When exporting to a tarball with ``bzr export --format tgz``, put
1055
everything under a top directory rather than dumping it into the
1056
current directory. This can be overridden with the ``--root``
1057
option. Patch from William Dodé and John Meinel.
1059
* New ``bzr upgrade`` command to upgrade the format of a branch,
1060
replacing ``bzr check --update``.
1062
* 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
1067
``-l`` option, patched by William Dodé.
1069
* By default the commit command refuses to record a revision with
1070
no changes unless the ``--unchanged`` option is given.
1072
* 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``.
1086
* Fix bugs in committing only selected files or within a subdirectory.
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bzr-0.0.5 2005-06-15
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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
1097
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
1103
with the ``--forward`` option.
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* ``bzr inventory`` by default shows only filenames, and also ids
1106
if ``--show-ids`` is given, in which case the id is the second
5
1112
* New 'bzr whoami --email' option shows only the email component
6
1113
of the user identification, from Jo Vermeulen.
8
* New 'bzr ignore PATTERN' command.
1115
* New ``bzr ignore PATTERN`` command.
10
1117
* Nicer error message for broken pipe, interrupt and similar
11
1118
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
1123
either read or write mode.
1125
* 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``.
1132
* New option ``bzr commit --file`` to take a message from a file,
1133
suggested by LarstiQ.
1135
* New syntax ``bzr status [FILE...]`` contributed by Bartosz
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Oler. File may be in a branch other than the working directory.
1138
* ``bzr log`` and ``bzr root`` can be given an http URL instead of
1141
* Commands can now be defined by external programs or scripts
1142
in a directory on $BZRPATH.
1144
* New "stat cache" avoids reading the contents of files if they
1145
haven't changed since the previous time.
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* If the Python interpreter is too old, try to find a better one
1148
or give an error. Based on a patch from Fredrik Lundh.
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* New optional parameter ``bzr info [BRANCH]``.
1152
* New form ``bzr commit SELECTED`` to commit only selected files.
1154
* New form ``bzr log -r FROM:TO`` shows changes in selected
1155
range; contributed by John A Meinel.
1157
* New option ``bzr diff --diff-options 'OPTS'`` allows passing
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options through to an external GNU diff.
1160
* 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
1169
* Fixed diff format so that added and removed files will be
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handled properly by patch. Fix from Lalo Martins.
1172
* Various fixes for files whose names contain spaces or other
15
* Converted black-box test suites from Bourne shell into Python.
16
Various structural improvements to the tests.
1178
* Converted black-box test suites from Bourne shell into Python;
1179
now run using ``./testbzr``. Various structural improvements to
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* testbzr by default runs the version of bzr found in the same
1183
directory as the tests, or the one given as the first parameter.
1185
* testbzr also runs the internal tests, so the only command
1186
required to check is just ``./testbzr``.
1188
* 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.
20
1196
* Included ElementTree library upgraded to 1.2.6 by Fredrik Lundh.
22
* Refactor command functions into Command objects based on
23
mango-sorbet by Scott James Remnant.
1198
* Refactor command functions into Command objects based on HCT by
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Scott James Remnant.
25
1201
* Better help messages for many commands.
1203
* Expose bzrlib.open_tracefile() to start the tracefile; until
1204
this is called trace messages are just discarded.
1206
* New internal function find_touching_revisions() and hidden
1207
command touching-revisions trace the changes to a given file.
1209
* Simpler and faster compare_inventories() function.
1211
* bzrlib.open_tracefile() takes a tracefilename parameter.
1213
* New AtomicFile class.
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* New developer commands ``added``, ``modified``.
1220
* 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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