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What's New in Bazaar 2.2?
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Bazaar 2.2.0, released on the 6th of August 2010, marks the start of
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another long-term-stable series. From here, we will only make bugfix
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releases on the 2.2 series (2.2.1, etc), while 2.3 will become our new
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development series. The 2.0 and 2.1 series will also continue to get
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bugfixes. (Currently 2.0 is planned to be supported for another 6 months.)
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The main changes in 2.2 are: **better local and network performance**,
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**reduced memory usage**, and several user-interface improvements.
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Users are encouraged to upgrade from the other stable series. This
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document outlines the improvements in Bazaar 2.2 vs Bazaar 2.1. As well as
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summarizing improvements made to the core product, it highlights
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enhancements within the broader Bazaar world of potential interest to
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Bazaar 2.2.0 includes all the fixes from 2.1.2 and 2.0.6.
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Over 120 bugs have been fixed in total. See the
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:doc:`../release-notes/index` for a full list.
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Bazaar 2.2.1 includes all the fixes from 2.1.3 and 2.0.6 (that
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weren't included in 2.20).
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See the :doc:`../release-notes/index` for details.
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Bazaar 2.2 is fully compatible both locally and on the network with 2.0
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and 2.1, and can read and write repositories generated by all previous
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There are some compatibility changes in this release.
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* For commandline users we no longer guess user identity for ``bzr
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commit``: users must specify their identity using ``bzr whoami`` (you
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don't need to specify your identity for readonly operations).
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This avoids problems where the previous guessed default caused commits
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be recorded as coming from, for example ``<sam@localhost>``.
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Improved conflict handling
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Tree-shape conflicts can be resolved by providing ``--take-this`` and
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``--take-other`` to the ``bzr resolve`` command. Just marking the conflict
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as resolved is still accessible via the ``--done`` default action.
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* ``bzr init`` does not recursively scan directory contents anymore
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leading to faster init for directories with existing content.
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(Martin [gz], Parth Malwankar, #501307)
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* Less code is loaded at startup, so there's less overhead on running all
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(Andrew Bennetts, Martin Pool)
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* Reduce peak memory by one copy of compressed text.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #566940)
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* Avoid repeated locking of local objects in ``diff``, ``missing``, and
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``pull``, so those options are faster.
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* Bazaar now reads data from SSH connections more efficiently on platforms
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that provide the ``socketpair`` function, and when using paramiko.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #590637)
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* Index lookups in pack repositories search recently hit pack files
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first. In repositories with many pack files this can greatly reduce the
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number of files accessed, the number of bytes read, and the number of
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read calls. An incremental pull via plain HTTP takes half the time and
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bytes for a moderately large repository. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* Index lookups only re-order the indexes when the hit files aren't
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already first. Reduces the cost of reordering
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(John Arbash Meinel, #562429)
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* Added ``bzr remove-branch`` command that can remove a local or remote
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branch. (Jelmer Vernooij, #276295)
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* ``bzr export`` now takes an optional argument ``--per-file-timestamps``
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to set file mtimes to the last timestamp of the last revision in which
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they were changed rather than the current time. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* Tag names can now be determined automatically by ``automatic_tag_name``
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hooks on ``Branch`` if they are not specified on the command line.
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* Tree-shape conflicts can be resolved by providing ``--take-this`` and
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``--take-other`` to the ``bzr resolve`` command. Just marking the conflict
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as resolved is still accessible via the ``--done`` default action.
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* The ``--directory`` option is supported for a number of additional
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commands: added, annotate, bind, cat, cat-revision, clean-tree,
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conflicts, deleted, export, ignore, ignored, lookup-revision, ls,
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merge-directive, missing, modified, nick, re-sign, resolve, shelve,
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switch, unbind, unknowns, unshelve, whoami.
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(Martin von Gagern, #527878)
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* ``bzr commit`` accepts ``-p`` (for "patch") as a shorter name for
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(Parth Malwankar, #571467)
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* ``bzr ignore`` now supports a ``--default-rules`` option that displays
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the default ignore rules used by bzr. The flag ``--old-default-rules``
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is no longer supported by ``ignore``.
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(Parth Malwankar, #538703)
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* ``bzr pack`` now supports a ``--clean-obsolete-packs`` option that
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can save disk space by deleting obsolete pack files created during the
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(Parth Malwankar, #304320)
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* New command line option ``--authors`` to ``bzr log`` allows users to
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select which of the apparent authors and committer should be
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included in the log. Defaults depend on format. (Martin von Gagern, #513322)
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* The bash_completion plugin from the bzr-bash-completion project has
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been merged into the tree. It provides a bash-completion command and
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replaces the outdated ``contrib/bash/bzr`` script with a version
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using the plugin. (Martin von Gagern, #560030)
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* A new transport based on GIO (the gnome i/o library) provides access to
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samba shares, webdav using gio+smb and gio+dav. It is also possible to
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use gio for some already existing transport methods as gio+file,
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* Plugins can be disabled by defining ``BZR_DISABLE_PLUGINS`` as
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a list of plugin names separated by ':' (';' on windows).
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #411413)
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* Plugins can be loaded from arbitrary locations by defining
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``BZR_PLUGINS_AT`` as a list of ``name@path`` separated by ':' (';' on
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Windows). This takes precedence over ``BZR_PLUGIN_PATH`` for the
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specified plugins, and is expected to be most useful for plugin
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #82693)
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Apport crash reporting
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* If the Apport crash-reporting tool is available, bzr crashes are now
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stored into the ``/var/crash`` apport spool directory, and the user is
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invited to report them to the developers from there, either
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automatically or by running ``apport-bug``. No information is sent
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without specific permission from the user. (Martin Pool, #515052)
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Improved Launchpad integration
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* Merges can be proposed on Launchpad with the new ``lp-propose-merge``
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* ``bzr help patterns`` now explains case insensitive patterns and
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points to Python regular expression documentation.
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(Parth Malwankar, #594386)
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* Numerous improvements have been made to the developer documentation.
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The `grep plugin <https://launchpad.net/bzr-grep>`_ has developed well
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during the bzr 2.2 cycle. bzr grep can search the versioned files in the
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working tree, or in one or a series of revisions, or it can search through
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only the changes in a revision range.
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`qbzr <https://launchpad.net/qbzr>`_, a cross-platform graphical interface
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to Bazaar, gained many features and fixes in its 0.19 release, including:
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* qannotate has new look and feel; with new features: find text and goto
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* Improved performance of qlog, and treewidget-based dialogs (qcommit,
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* qpush, qmerge, etc.: when there are uncommitted changes in the working
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tree, user has the option to commit, or revert.
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* qcommit: user can update bound branch/checkout if it is not up to date.
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* Better support of Mac OS X: dialog windows no more start in background.
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* qlog: Context menu actions for tag and revert will now show a branch
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menu if more than one branch is open.
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* qlog: more context menu actions for update, cherry-pick, and reverse
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* Language of GUI can be set in DEFAULT section of bazaar.conf
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as ``language = code``. Language codes are the same
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as for ``LANG`` environment variable.
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Environment variable ``LANGUAGE`` still preferred over settings
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Platform-specific changes
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* There's a new py2exe windows program ``bzrw.exe``, which allows for starting a Bazaar GUI with out have a console open in the background. (Gary van der Merwe, #433781`)
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* The all-in-one Windows installer will now be built with docstrings stripped
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from the library zip, reducing the size and slightly improving cold startup
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time. Bundled plugins are unchanged for the moment, but if adding other new
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plugins to an all-in-one installation, ensure they are compiled and
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installed with -O1 or help may not work. (Martin [gz])
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* Parsing of command lines, for example in ``diff --using``, no longer
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treats backslash as an escape character on Windows. (Gordon Tyler,
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* BzrError subclasses no longer support the name "message" to be used
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as an argument for __init__ or in _fmt format specification as this
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breaks in some Python versions. errors.LockError.__init__ argument
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is now named "msg" instead of earlier "message".
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(Parth Malwankar, #603461)
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* The old ``bzr selftest --benchmark`` option has been removed.
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<https://launchpad.net/bzr-usertest> is an actively-maintained
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macrobenchmark suite.
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* bzrlib library users now need to call ``__enter__`` and ``__exit__`` on
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the result of ``bzrlib.initialize``. This change was made when fixing
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the bad habit recent bzr versions have had of leaving progress bars
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behind on the screen. That required calling another function before
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exiting the program, and it made sense to provide a full context
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manager at the same time. (Robert Collins)
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* The ``bzr`` front end now requires a ``bzrlib.ui.ui_factory`` which is a
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context manager in the Python 2.5 and above sense. The bzrlib base class
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is such a manager, but third party UI factories which do not derive from
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``bzrlib.ui.UIFactory`` will be incompatible with the command line front
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* URLs like ``foo:bar/baz`` are now always parsed as a URL with scheme "foo"
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and path "bar/baz", even if bzr does not recognize "foo" as a known URL
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scheme. Previously these URLs would be treated as local paths.
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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/2.2>`_
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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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