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What's New in Bazaar 2.3?
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Bazaar 2.3 has been released on the 3rd of February 2011 and marks the start
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of another long-term-stable series. From here, we will only make bugfix
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releases on the 2.3 series (2.3.1, etc), while 2.4 will become our new
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development series. The 2.1 and 2.2 series will also continue to get
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bugfixes. (Currently 2.0 is planned to be EOLed circa September 2011.)
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This document accumulates a high level summary of what's changed.
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:doc:`../release-notes/index` for a full list.
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Users are encouraged to upgrade from the other stable series. This document
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outlines the improvements in Bazaar 2.3 vs Bazaar 2.2. As well as summarizing
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improvements made to the core product, it highlights enhancements within the
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broader Bazaar world of potential interest to those upgrading.
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Bazaar 2.3.1 includes all the fixes in the un-released 2.0.7, 2.1.4 and 2.2.5
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versions that weren't included in 2.3.0 and fixes some bugs on its own.
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Bazaar 2.3.2 is a bugfix release that was never released.
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Bazaar 2.3.3 is a bugfix release including the fixes in 2.3.2 and
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fixing the test helpers deprecated by python-2.7.
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See the :doc:`../release-notes/index` for details.
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Bazaar 2.3 is fully compatible both locally and on the network with 2.0, 2.1,
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and 2.2. It can read and write repositories generated by all previous
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* Committing a new revision in a stacked branch is now supported, as long as
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you are using the current repository format (2a). It will preserve the
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stacking invariants, etc, so that fetching after commit is guaranteed to
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work. (John Arbash Meinel, #375013)
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* Support for some old development formats have been removed:
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``development-rich-root``, ``development6-rich-root``, and
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``development7-rich-root``. These formats were always labelled experimental
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and not used unless the user specifically asked for them. If you have
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repositories using these old formats you should upgrade them to ``2a`` using
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Bazaar 2.2. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* The default ``ignore`` file created by Bazaar will contain ``__pycache__``,
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which is the name of the directory that will be used by Python to store
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(Andrea Corbellini, #626687)
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* The default sort order for the ``bzr tags`` command now uses a natural sort
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where numeric substrings are sorted numerically. The previous default was
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"asciibetical" where tags were sorted by the characters they contained. To
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get the old behavior, one can use ``bzr tags --sort=alpha``.
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(Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #640760)
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* On platforms other than Windows and Mac OS X, Bazaar will use configuration
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files that live in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/bazaar if that directory exists. This
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allows interested individuals to conform to the XDG Base Directory
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specification. The plugin location has not changed and is still
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~/.bazaar/plugins. To use a different directory for plugins, use the
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environment variable BZR_PLUGIN_PATH. (Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #195397)
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* ``bzr upgrade`` now operates recursively when run on a shared
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repository, automatically upgrading the branches within it, and has
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grown additional options for showing what it will do and cleaning up
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after itself. (Ian Clatworthy, Matthew Fuller, #89830, #374734, #422450)
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* The ``lp:`` prefix will now use your known username (from
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``bzr launchpad-login``) to expand ``~`` to your username. For example:
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``bzr launchpad-login user && bzr push lp:~/project/branch`` will now
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push to ``lp:~user/project/branch``. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* Launchpad has announced that the ``edge.launchpad.net`` instance is
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deprecated and may be shut down in the future
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<http://blog.launchpad.net/general/edge-is-deprecated>. Bazaar has therefore
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been updated in this release to talk to the main (``launchpad.net``) servers,
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rather than the ``edge`` ones.
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Performance improvements
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* ``bzr revert`` and ``bzr status`` are up to 15% faster on large trees
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with many changes by not repeatedly building a list of all file-ids.
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* ``bzr send`` uses less memory.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #614576)
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* Fetches involving stacked branches and branches with tags now do slightly less
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I/O, and so does branching from an existing branch. This also improves the
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network performance of these operations. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* Inventory entries now consume less memory (on 32-bit Ubuntu file entries
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have dropped from 68 bytes to 40, and directory entries from 120 bytes
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to 48). This affects most operations, and depending on the size of the
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tree may substantially improve the speed of operations like ``bzr
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commit``. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* Lower memory consumption when reading many chk index pages. Helpful for
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things like ``bzr co`` or ``bzr ls -R`` on large trees.
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* When building new working trees, default to reading from the repository
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rather than the source tree unless explicitly requested. (via
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``--files-from`` and ``--hardlink`` for ``bzr branch`` and
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``bzr checkout``. Generally, 2a format repositories extract
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content faster than seeking and reading content from another tree,
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especially in cold-cache situations. (John Arbash Meinel, #607298)
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New revision specifiers
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* The ``mainline`` revision specifier has been added. It takes another revision
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spec as its input, and selects the revision which merged that revision into
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For example, ``bzr log -vp -r mainline:1.2.3`` will show the log of the
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revision that merged revision 1.2.3 into mainline, along with its status
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output and diff. (Aaron Bentley)
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* The ``annotate`` revision specifier has been added. It takes a path and a
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line as its input (in the form ``path:line``), and selects the revision which
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introduced that line of that file.
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For example: ``bzr log -vp -r annotate:bzrlib/transform.py:500`` will select
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the revision that introduced line 500 of transform.py, and display its log,
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status output and diff.
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It can be combined with ``mainline`` to select the revision that landed this
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line into trunk, like so:
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``bzr log -vp -r mainline:annotate:bzrlib/transform.py:500``
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Testing/Bug reporting
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* Shell-like scripts can now be run directly from the command line without
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writing a python test. This should help users adding reproducing recipes
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to bug reports. (Vincent Ladeuil)
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Improved conflict handling
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* ``pull``, ``merge`` or ``switch`` can lead to conflicts when deleting a
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versioned directory contains unversioned files. The cause of the conflict
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is that deleting the directory will orphan the unversioned files so the
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user needs to instruct ``bzr`` what do to do about these orpahns. This is
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controlled by setting the ``bzr.transform.orphan_policy`` configuration
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variable with a value of ``move``. In this case the unversioned files are
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moved to a ``bzr-orphans`` directory at the root of the working tree. The
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default behaviour is specified (if needed) by setting the variable to
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``conflict``. (Vincent Ladeuil, #323111)
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* ``bzr resolve --take-this`` and ``bzr resolve --take-other`` can now be
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used for text conflicts. This will ignore the differences that were merged
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cleanly and replace the file with its content in the current branch
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(``--take-this``) or with its content in the merged branch
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(``--take-other``). (Vincent Ladeuil, #638451)
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* ``bzr resolve`` now provides more feedback about the conflicts just
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resolved and the remaining ones. (Vincent Ladeuil)
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* A beta version of the documentation is now available in GNU TexInfo
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format, used by emacs and the standalone ``info`` reader.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #219334)
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``bzr`` can be configured via environment variables, command-line options
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and configurations files. We've started working on unifying this and give
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access to more options. The first step is a new ``bzr config`` command that
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can be used to display the active configuration options in the current
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working tree or branch as well as the ability to set or remove an
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option. Scripts can also use it to get only the value for a given option.
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For more detailed information on the changes made, see the
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the :doc:`../release-notes/index` for:
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* the interim bzr `milestones <https://launchpad.net/bzr/2.3>`_
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* the plugins you use.
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For a summary of changes made in earlier releases, see:
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* :doc:`whats-new-in-2.1`
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* :doc:`whats-new-in-2.2`
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