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* Tests updates to ensure proper URL handling, UNICODE support, and
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proper printing when the user's terminal encoding cannot display
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the path of a file that has been versioned.
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``bzr branch`` can take a target URL rather than only a local directory.
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Branch.get_parent()/set_parent() now save a relative path if possible,
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and normalize the parent based on root, allowing access across
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different transports. (John Arbash Meinel, Wouter van Heyst, Martin Pool)
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(Malone #48906, #42699, #40675, #5281, #3980, #36363, #43689,
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* On Unix, detect terminal width using an ioctl not just $COLUMNS.
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Use terminal width for single-line logs from ``bzr log --line`` and
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pending-merge display. (Robert Widhopf-Fenk, Gustavo Niemeyer)
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* On Windows, detect terminal width using GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo.
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* Speedup improvement for 'date:'-revision search. (Guillaume Pinot).
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* Show the correct number of revisions pushed when pushing a new branch.
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* 'bzr selftest' now shows a progress bar with the number of tests, and
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progress made. 'make check' shows tests in -v mode, to be more useful
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for the PQM status window. (Robert Collins).
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* 'bzr selftest --benchmark' will run a new benchmarking selftest.
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'bzr selftest --benchmark --lsprof-timed' will use lsprofile to generate
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profile data for the individual profiled calls, allowing for fine
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grained analysis of performance.
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(Robert Collins, Martin Pool).
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* 'bzr commit' shows a progress bar. This is useful for commits over sftp
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where commit can take an appreciable time. (Robert Collins)
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* 'bzr add' is now less verbose in telling you what ignore globs were
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matched by files being ignored. Instead it just tells you how many
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were ignored (because you might reasonably be expecting none to be
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ignored). 'bzr add -v' is unchanged and will report every ignored
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file. (Robert Collins).
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* ftp now has a test server if medusa is installed. As part of testing,
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ftp support has been improved, including support for supplying a
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non-standard port. (John Arbash Meinel).
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* 'bzr log --line' shows the revision number, and uses only the
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first line of the log message (#5162, Alexander Belchenko;
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* 'bzr status' has had the --all option removed. The 'bzr ls' command
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should be used to retrieve all versioned files. (Robert Collins)
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* 'bzr bundle OTHER/BRANCH' will create a bundle which can be sent
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over email, and applied on the other end, while maintaining ancestry.
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This bundle can be applied with either 'bzr merge' or 'bzr pull',
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the same way you would apply another branch.
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(John Arbash Meinel, Aaron Bentley)
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* 'branches.conf' has been changed to 'locations.conf', since it can apply
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to more locations than just branch locations.
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* Fix shadowed definition of TestLocationConfig that caused some
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tests not to run. (#32587, Erik Bågfors, Michael Ellerman,
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* Fix unnecessary requirement of sign-my-commits that it be run from
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a working directory. (Martin Pool, Robert Collins)
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* 'bzr push location' will only remember the push location if it succeeds
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in connecting to the remote location. (#49742, John Arbash Meinel)
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* Combine the ignore rules into a single regex rather than looping over
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them to reduce the threshold where N^2 behaviour occurs in operations
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like status. (Jan Hudec, Robert Collins).
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* 'bzr push' should only push the ancestry of the current revision, not
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all of the history in the repository. This is especially important for
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shared repositories. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* bzrlib.delta.compare_trees now iterates in alphabetically sorted order,
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rather than randomly walking the inventories. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* Split ``check`` into separate methods on the branch and on the repository,
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so that it can be specialized in ways that are useful or efficient for
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different formats. (Martin Pool, Robert Collins)
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* Deprecate Repository.all_revision_ids; most methods don't really need
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the global revision graph but only that part leading up to a particular
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revision. (Martin Pool, Robert Collins)
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* Add a BzrDirFormat control_formats list which allows for control formats
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that do not use '.bzr' to store their data - i.e. '.svn', '.hg' etc.
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(Robert Collins, Jelmer Vernooij).
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* bzrlib.diff.external_diff can be redirected to any file-like object.
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Uses subprocess instead of spawnvp.
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(#4047, #48914, James Henstridge, John Arbash Meinel)
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* New command line option '--profile-imports', which will install a custom
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importer to log time to import modules and regex compilation time to
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sys.stderr (John Arbash Meinel)
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* setup.py failed to install launchpad plugin. (Martin Pool)
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* Fix failure to commit a merge in a checkout. (Martin Pool,
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Robert Collins, Erik Bågfors, #43959)
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* Nicer messages from 'commit' in the case of renames, and correct
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messages when a merge has occured. (Robert Collins, Martin Pool)
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* Separate functionality from assert statements as they are skipped in
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optimized mode of python. Add the same check to pending merges.
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(#44443, Olaf Conradi)
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* Do not show the None revision in output of bzr ancestry. (Olaf Conradi)
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* Add info on standalone branches without a working tree.
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(#44155, Olaf Conradi)
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* Fix bug in knits when raising InvalidRevisionId. (#44284, Olaf Conradi)
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* Make editor invocation comply with Debian Policy. First check
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environment variables VISUAL and EDITOR, then try editor from
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alternatives system. If that all fails, fall back to the pre-defined
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list of editors. (#42904, Olaf Conradi)
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* New 'register-branch' command registers a public branch into
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Launchpad.net, where it can be associated with bugs, etc.
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(Martin Pool, Bjorn Tillenius, Robert Collins)
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* New public api in InventoryEntry - 'describe_change(old, new)' which
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provides a human description of the changes between two old and
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new. (Robert Collins, Martin Pool)
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* Fix test case for bzr info in upgrading a standalone branch to metadir,
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uses bzrlib api now. (Olaf Conradi)
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NOTES WHEN UPGRADING:
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Release 0.8 of bzr introduces a new format for history storage, called
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'knit', as an evolution of to the 'weave' format used in 0.7. Local
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and remote operations are faster using knits than weaves. Several
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operations including 'init', 'init-repo', and 'upgrade' take a
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--format option that controls this. Branching from an existing branch
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will keep the same format.
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It is possible to merge, pull and push between branches of different
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formats but this is slower than moving data between homogenous
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branches. It is therefore recommended (but not required) that you
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upgrade all branches for a project at the same time. Information on
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formats is shown by 'bzr info'.
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bzr 0.8 now allows creation of 'repositories', which hold the history
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of files and revisions for several branches. Previously bzr kept all
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the history for a branch within the .bzr directory at the root of the
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branch, and this is still the default. To create a repository, use
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the new 'bzr init-repo' command. Branches exist as directories under
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the repository and contain just a small amount of information
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indicating the current revision of the branch.
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bzr 0.8 also supports 'checkouts', which are similar to in cvs and
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subversion. Checkouts are associated with a branch (optionally in a
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repository), which contains all the historical information. The
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result is that a checkout can be deleted without losing any
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already-committed revisions. A new 'update' command is also available.
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Repositories and checkouts are not supported with the 0.7 storage
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format. To use them you must upgrad to either knits, or to the
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'metaweave' format, which uses weaves but changes the .bzr directory
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* 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
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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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