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* On Unix, detect terminal width using an ioctl not just $COLUMNS.
6
Use terminal width for single-line logs from ``bzr log --line`` and
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pending-merge display. (Robert Widhopf-Fenk, Gustavo Niemeyer)
10
* On Windows, detect terminal width using GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo.
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* Speedup improvement for 'date:'-revision search. (Guillaume Pinot).
15
* Show the correct number of revisions pushed when pushing a new branch.
18
* 'bzr selftest' now shows a progress bar with the number of tests, and
19
progress made. 'make check' shows tests in -v mode, to be more useful
20
for the PQM status window. (Robert Collins).
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* 'bzr selftest --benchmark' will run a new benchmarking selftest.
23
'bzr selftest --benchmark --lsprof-timed' will use lsprofile to generate
24
profile data for the individual profiled calls, allowing for fine
25
grained analysis of performance.
26
(Robert Collins, Martin Pool).
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* 'bzr commit' shows a progress bar. This is useful for commits over sftp
29
where commit can take an appreciable time. (Robert Collins)
31
* 'bzr add' is now less verbose in telling you what ignore globs were
32
matched by files being ignored. Instead it just tells you how many
33
were ignored (because you might reasonably be expecting none to be
34
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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* ``log --line`` shows the revision number. (#5162, Alexander Belchenko)
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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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* 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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* 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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* 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, 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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* 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
274
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
281
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
286
which is not installed, and then another implementation will be
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* Remove obsolete (and no-op) `decode` parameter to `Transport.get`.
292
* 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,
306
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
311
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)
326
* bzrlib.ui.text.TextUIFactory now accepts a bar_type parameter which
327
can be None or a factory that will create a progress bar. This is
328
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
336
check. (Robert Collins)
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* bzrlib.ui.ui_factory protocol now supports 'get_boolean' to prompt
339
the user for yes/no style input. (Robert Collins)
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* SFTP tests now shortcut the SSH negotiation, reducing test overhead
344
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
352
test environment, useful for testing any transport-interface using
353
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
358
handler from the internal list inside python's logging module,
359
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
364
will provide String("foo") to the command as its stdin.
370
* .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)
373
* 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
379
by default. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* The parent of Bzr configuration directory can be set by BZR_HOME
382
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
384
points to C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Application Data), HOME.
387
* Plugins with the same name in different directories in the bzr plugin
388
path are no longer loaded: only the first successfully loaded one is
389
used. (Robert Collins)
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* Use systems' external ssh command to open connections if possible.
392
This gives better integration with user settings such as ProxyCommand.
395
* 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/'
397
will mean that future file will be created with group write permissions.
399
* configure.in and config.guess are no longer in the builtin default
402
* '.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)
412
* Better zsh completion script. (Steve Borho)
414
* 'bzr diff' now returns 1 when there are changes in the working
415
tree. (Robert Collins)
417
* 'bzr push' now exists and can push changes to a remote location.
418
This uses the transport infrastructure, and can store the remote
419
location in the ~/.bazaar/branches.conf configuration file.
422
* Test directories are only kept if the test fails and the user requests
425
* Tweaks to short log printing
427
* Added branch nicks, new nick command, printing them in log output.
430
* If $BZR_PDB is set, pop into the debugger when an uncaught exception
431
occurs. (Martin Pool)
433
* Accept 'bzr resolved' (an alias for 'bzr resolve'), as this is
434
the same as Subversion. (Martin Pool)
436
* New ftp transport support (on ftplib), for ftp:// and aftp://
437
URLs. (Daniel Silverstone)
439
* Commit editor temporary files now start with 'bzr_log.', to allow
440
text editors to match the file name and set up appropriate modes or
441
settings. (Magnus Therning)
443
* Improved performance when integrating changes from a remote weave.
444
(Goffredo Baroncelli)
446
* Sftp will attempt to cache the connection, so it is more likely that
447
a connection will be reused, rather than requiring multiple password
450
* bzr revno now takes an optional argument indicating the branch whose
451
revno should be printed. (Michael Ellerman)
453
* bzr cat defaults to printing the last version of the file.
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(#3632, Matthieu Moy)
456
* New global option 'bzr --lsprof COMMAND' runs bzr under the lsprof
457
profiler. (Denys Duchier)
459
* Faster commits by reading only the headers of affected weave files.
462
* 'bzr add' now takes a --dry-run parameter which shows you what would be
463
added, but doesn't actually add anything. (Michael Ellerman)
465
* 'bzr add' now lists how many files were ignored per glob. add --verbose
466
lists the specific files. (Aaron Bentley)
468
* 'bzr missing' now supports displaying changes in diverged trees and can
469
be limited to show what either end of the comparison is missing.
470
(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.
483
* Handle more cases of pipe errors in display commands
485
* Change status to 3 for all errors
487
* Files that are added and unlinked before committing are completely
488
ignored by diff and status
490
* Stores with some compressed texts and some uncompressed texts are now
491
able to be used. (John A Meinel)
493
* Fix for bzr pull failing sometimes under windows
495
* Fix for sftp transport under windows when using interactive auth
497
* Show files which are both renamed and modified as such in 'bzr
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status' output. (#4503, Daniel Silverstone)
500
* Make annotate cope better with revisions committed without a valid
501
email address. (Marien Zwart)
503
* Fix representation of tab characters in commit messages. (Harald
506
* List of plugin directories in BZR_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable is
507
now parsed properly under Windows. (Alexander Belchenko)
509
* Show number of revisions pushed/pulled/merged. (Robey Pointer)
511
* Keep a cached copy of the basis inventory to speed up operations
512
that need to refer to it. (Johan Rydberg, Martin Pool)
514
* Fix bugs in bzr status display of non-ascii characters. (Martin
517
* Remove Makefile.in from default ignore list. (#6413, Tollef Fog
520
* Fix failure in 'bzr added'. (Nathan McCallum, Martin Pool)
524
* Fix selftest asking for passwords when there are no SFTP keys.
525
(Robey Pointer, Jelmer Vernooij)
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* Fix selftest run with 'python -O'. (Martin Pool)
529
* Fix HTTP tests under Windows. (John Arbash Meinel)
531
* Make tests work even if HOME is not set (Aaron Bentley)
533
* Updated build_tree to use fixed line-endings for tests which read
534
the file cotents and compare. Make some tests use this to pass under
535
Windows. (John Arbash Meinel)
537
* Skip stat and symlink tests under Windows. (Alexander Belchenko)
539
* Delay in selftest/testhashcash is now issued under win32 and Cygwin.
542
* Use terminal width to align verbose test output. (Martin Pool)
544
* Blackbox tests are maintained within the bzrlib.tests.blackbox directory.
545
If adding a new test script please add that to
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bzrlib.tests.blackbox.__init__. (Robert Collins)
548
* Much better error message if one of the test suites can't be
549
imported. (Martin Pool)
551
* Make check now runs the test suite twice - once with the default locale,
552
and once with all locales forced to C, to expose bugs. This is not
553
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
555
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
560
reasons - see the wiki spec ImprovingBzrTestSuite).
562
* Test sftp with relative, absolute-in-homedir and absolute-not-in-homedir
563
paths for the transport tests. Introduce blackbox remote sftp tests that
564
test the same permutations. (Robert Collins, Robey Pointer)
566
* Transport implementation tests are now independent of the local file
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system, which allows tests for esoteric transports, and for features
568
not available in the local file system. They also repeat for variations
569
on the URL scheme that can introduce issues in the transport code,
570
see bzrlib.transport.TransportTestProviderAdapter() for this.
573
* TestCase.build_tree uses the transport interface to build trees, pass
574
in a transport parameter to give it an existing connection.
579
* WorkingTree.pull has been split across Branch and WorkingTree,
580
to allow Branch only pulls. (Robert Collins)
582
* commands.display_command now returns the result of the decorated
583
function. (Robert Collins)
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* LocationConfig now has a set_user_option(key, value) call to save
586
a setting in its matching location section (a new one is created
587
if needed). (Robert Collins)
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* Branch has two new methods, get_push_location and set_push_location
590
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
594
given multiple plugins registering a command is not an error, and
595
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
606
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)
623
* 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
628
* bzrlib.plugin.all_plugins has been changed from an attribute to a
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query method. (Robert Collins)
631
* New options to read only the table-of-contents of a weave.
634
* 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
642
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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