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* New ``pre_change_branch_tip`` hook that is called before the
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branch tip is moved, while the branch is write-locked. See the User
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Reference for signature details. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* Rule-based preferences can now be defined for selected files in
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selected branches, allowing commands and plugins to provide
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custom behaviour for files matching defined patterns.
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See ``Rule-based preferences`` (part of ``Configuring Bazaar``)
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in the User Guide and ``bzr help rules`` for more information.
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* Sites may suggest a branch to stack new branches on. (Aaron Bentley)
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* Stacked branches are now supported. See ``bzr help branch`` and
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``bzr help push``. (Robert Collins)
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* Sites may suggest a branch to stack new branches on. (Aaron Bentley)
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* ``bzr export --format=tgz --root=NAME -`` to export a gzipped tarball
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to stdout; also ``tar`` and ``tbz2``.
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* ``bzr send`` documents and better supports ``emacsclient`` (proper
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escaping of mail headers and handling of the MUA Mew).
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(Christophe Troestler)
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* Remembered locations can be specified by aliases, e.g. :parent, :public,
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:submit. (Aaron Bentley)
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* The smart protocol now has improved support for setting branches'
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revision info directly. This makes operations like push
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faster. The new request method name is
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``Branch.set_last_revision_ex``. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* ``bzr log --long`` with a ghost in your mainline now handles that
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ghost properly. (John Arbash Meinel, #243536)
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* ``check`` handles the split-up .bzr layout correctly, so no longer
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requires a branch to be present.
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(Daniel Watkins, #64783)
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* Clearer message about how to set the PYTHONPATH if bzrlib can't be
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(Martin Pool, #205230)
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* Errors about missing libraries are now shown without a traceback,
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and with a suggestion to install the library. The full traceback is
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still in ``.bzr.log`` and can be shown with ``-Derror``.
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(Martin Pool, #240161)
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* Handle urls such as ftp://user@host.com@www.host.com where the user
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(Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #228058)
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* ``needs_read_lock`` and ``needs_write_lock`` now suppress an error during
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``unlock`` if there was an error in the original function. This helps
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most when there is a failure with a smart server action, since often the
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connection closes and we cannot unlock.
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(Andrew Bennetts, John Arbash Meinel, #125784)
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* Obsolete hidden command ``bzr fetch`` removed.
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(Martin Pool, #172870)
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* Raise the correct exception when doing ``-rbefore:0`` or ``-c0``.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #239933)
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* You can now compare file revisions in Windows diff programs from
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(Matt McClure, #209281)
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* revision_history now tolerates mainline ghosts for Branch format 6.
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(Aaron Bentley, #235055)
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* Set locale from environment for third party libs.
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(Martin von Gagern, #128496)
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* Updated developer documentation.
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* ``-Dmemory`` will cause /proc/PID/status to be catted before bzr
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exits, allowing low-key analysis of peak memory use. (Robert Collins)
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* ``TestCaseWithTransport.make_branch_and_tree`` tries harder to return
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a tree with a ``branch`` attribute of the right format. This was
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preventing some ``RemoteBranch`` tests from actually running with
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``RemoteBranch`` instances. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* Removed ``Repository.text_store``, ``control_store``, etc. Instead,
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there are new attributes ``texts, inventories, revisions,
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signatures``, each of which is a ``VersionedFiles``. See the
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Repository docstring for more details.
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* ``Branch.pull`` now accepts an ``_override_hook_target`` optional
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parameter. If you have a subclass of ``Branch`` that overrides
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``pull`` then you should add this parameter. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* ``bzrlib.check.check()`` has been deprecated in favour of the more
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aptly-named ``bzrlib.check.check_branch()``.
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* ``Tree.print_file`` and ``Repository.print_file`` are deprecated.
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These methods are bad APIs because they write directly to sys.stdout.
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bzrlib does not use them internally, and there are no direct tests
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for them. (Alexander Belchenko)
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* ``cat`` command no longer uses ``Tree.print_file()`` internally.
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(Alexander Belchenko)
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* New class method ``BzrDir.open_containing_tree_branch_or_repository``
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which eases the discovery of the tree, the branch and the repository
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containing a given location.
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* New ``versionedfile.KeyMapper`` interface to abstract out the access to
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underlying .knit/.kndx etc files in repositories with partitioned
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storage. (Robert Collins)
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* Obsolete developer-use command ``weave-join`` has been removed.
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* ``RemoteToOtherFetcher`` and ``get_data_stream_for_search`` removed,
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to support new ``VersionedFiles`` layering.
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bzr 1.6beta2 2008-06-10
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-----------------------
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This release contains further progress towards our 1.6 goals of shallow
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repositories, and contains a fix for some user-affecting bugs in the
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repository layer. Building working trees during checkout and branch is
added
removed
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