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* bzr no longer autodetects nested trees as 'tree-references'. They

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must now be explicitly added tree references. At the commandline, use

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join --reference instead of add. (Aaron Bentley)

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* ``bzr shelve`` can now apply changes without storing anything on the

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shelf, via the new --destroy option. (Aaron Bentley)

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(Ian Clatworthy)

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* A new format name alias ``default-rich-root`` has been added and

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points at the closest relative of the default format that supports

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(Jonathan Lange)

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* Authentication plugins now receive all the parameters from the request

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itself (aka host, port, realm, path, etc). Previously, only the

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(James Westby, #341558)

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* New topic `bzr help debug-flags`. (Martin Pool)

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* New sort order for ``get_record_stream`` ``groupcompress`` which

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sorts optimally for use with groupcompress compressors. (John Arbash

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* ``bzrlib.tests.TestCase`` now fails the test if its own ``setUp``

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and ``tearDown`` weren't called. This catches faulty tests that

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(Andrew Bennetts, Robert Collins)

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* ``DirState`` can now be passed a custom ``SHA1Provider`` object

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enabling it to store the SHA1 and stat of the canonical (post

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and stacked branches should both be much faster over remote connections.

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* Fix "is not a stackable format" error when pushing a

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stackable-format branch with an unstackable-format repository to a

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``bzr+ssh://`` and ``bzr://`` connections. (Andrew Bennetts)

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* ``bzr log --line`` now indicates which revisions are merges with

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`[merge]` after the date. Scripts which parse the output of this

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(Neil Martinsen-Burrell)

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* ``bzr reconfigure`` now supports --with-trees and --with-no-trees

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options to change the default tree-creation policy of shared

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(Jonathan Lange)

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* All bzr ``Hooks`` classes are now registered in

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``bzrlib.hooks.known_hooks``. This removes the separate list from

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* ``bzr send`` now supports MH-E via ``emacsclient``. (Eric Gillespie)

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* Bazaar now gives a better message including the filename if it's

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unable to read a file in the working directory, for example because

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(Benoît Pierre, Aaron Bentley)

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Documentation

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* Added ``Organizing your workspace`` to the User Guide appendices,

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summarizing some common ways of organizing trees, branches and

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(Daniel Watkins, #327421, #327425)

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* ``bzr selftest`` now fails if the bazaar sources contain trailing

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whitespace, non-unix style line endings and files not ending in a

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repository of that format). (Robert Collins)

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* Branching from a non-stacked branch on a smart protocol is now

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free of virtual file system methods.

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by showing the rate of network IO.

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* ``bzr init --development-wt5[-rich-root]`` would fail because of

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circular import errors. (John Arbash Meinel, #328135)

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``log-formats``. (Ian Clatworthy)

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* By default, ``bzr status`` after a merge now shows just the pending

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merge tip revisions. This improves the signal-to-noise ratio after

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* ``read_bundle_from_url`` has been deprecated. (Vincent Ladeuil)

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* Add support for filtering ``bzr missing`` on revisions. Remote revisions

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can be filtered using ``bzr missing -r -20..-10`` and local revisions can

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(Ian Clatworthy)

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Improvements

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* ``bzr add`` more clearly communicates success vs failure.

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(Daniel Watkins)

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new branches based on stacked bzr-svn branches. (#311997)

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Bug Fixes

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* ``bzr annotate --show-ids`` doesn't give a backtrace on empty files

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anymore.

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* Unshelve now handles deleted paths without crashing. (Robert Collins)

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Documentation

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* Improved plugin developer documentation. (Martin Pool)

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* ``ProgressBarStack`` is deprecated; instead use

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``ui_factory.nested_progress_bar`` to create new progress bars.

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need to be updated. (Martin Pool)

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* Default User Interface (UI) is CLIUIFactory when bzr runs in a dumb

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terminal. It is sometimes desirable do override this default by forcing

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occur when there are concurrent writes to a pack repository.

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* Fix failing test when CompiledChunksToLines is not available.

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* Formats using Knit-based repository formats are now explicitly

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marked as deprecated. (Ian Clatworthy)

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* Add support for `bzr tags -r 1..2`, that is we now support showing

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tags applicable for a specified revision range. (Marius Kruger)

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(Aaron Bentley)

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* Add trailing slash to directories in all output of ``bzr ls``, except

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``bzr ls --null``. (Gordon P. Hemsley, #306424)

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counter-intuitive behaviour on Windows. (Mark Hammond)

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Bug Fixes

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* Allow BzrDir implementation to implement backing up of

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control directory. (#139691)

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Duffy, #314251)

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Documentation

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* Improved the formats help topic to explain why multiple formats

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exist and to provide guidelines in selecting one. Introduced

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(Ian Clatworthy)

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* ``LRUCache(after_cleanup_size)`` was renamed to

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``after_cleanup_count`` and the old name deprecated. The new name is

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``record_delete`` methods. (Robert Collins)

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Testing

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* An HTTPS server is now available (it requires python-2.6). Future bzr

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versions will allow the use of the python-2.6 ssl module that can be

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(Ian Clatworthy)

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* Added an ``InventoryEntry`` cache when deserializing inventories.

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Can cut the time to iterate over multiple RevisionsTrees in half.

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The only changes versus bzr-1.10rc1 are bugfixes for stacked branches.

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* Don't set a pack write cache size from RepoFetcher, because the

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cache is not coherent with reads and causes ShortReadvErrors.

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core. There are also bug fixes for portability, and for stacked branches.

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* New ``commit_message_template`` hook that is called by the commit

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(Aaron Bentley)

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* ``(Remote)Branch.copy_content_into`` no longer generates the full revision

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history just to set the last revision info.

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once. (John Arbash Meinel)

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* Better message when the user needs to set their Launchpad ID.

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(Aaron Bentley, #297991?, #293679?)

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* ``CommitBuilder`` now validates the strings it will be committing,

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to ensure that they do not have characters that will not be properly

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implementation is provided for Transport subclasses.

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Testing

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* ``bzr selftest`` now fails if no doctests are found in a module

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checkouts or pulling large amounts of data.

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Bug Fixes

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* Fix "invalid property value 'branch-nick' for None" regression with

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* New Branch hook ``transform_fallback_location`` allows a function to

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be called when looking up the stacked source. (Michael Hudson)

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information. (John Arbash Meinel)

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* ``BTreeIndex`` code now is able to prefetch extra pages to help tune

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the tradeoff between bandwidth and latency. Should be tuned

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slower method. (Andrew Bennetts)

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* A failure to load a plugin due to an IncompatibleAPI exception is

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(Marius Kruger, #230903)

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* Improved hook documentation. (Michael Ernst)

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* commands.plugins_cmds is now a CommandRegistry, not a dict.

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* New AuthenticationConfig.set_credentials method allows easy programmatic

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configuration of authetication credentials.

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improvements, and can now run server-side hooks within an http server.

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* Fix "Must end write group" error when another error occurs during

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* Some Pyrex versions require the WIN32 macro defined to compile on

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* ``bzr log file`` has been changed. It now uses a different method

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for determining which revisions to show as merging the changes to

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* bzr is now compatible with python-2.6. python-2.6 is not yet officially

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* ``bzr annotate`` will now include uncommitted changes from the local

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working tree by default. Such uncommitted changes are given the

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detailed logging to the .bzr.log trace file. (Andrew Bennetts)

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* Avoid random failures arising from misinterpreted ``errno`` values

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* Explain revision/range identifiers. (Daniel Clemente)

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* ``CommitBuilder.record_entry_contents`` returns one more element in

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``bzrlib.tests.per_repository`` so that we have a common structure

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(Andrew Bennetts)

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* If we encounter a criss-cross in history, use information from

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* Some small updates to the win32 installer. Include localization

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* Branching from a shared repository on a smart server into a new

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* ``bzr export`` can now export a subdirectory of a project.

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are not ignored and adds them automatically. (Robert Collins)

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* Support for GSSAPI authentication when using FTP as documented in

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* Add support for IPv6 in the smart server. (Jelmer Vernooij, #165014)

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* A url like ``log+file:///tmp`` will log all access to that Transport

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paths in the output of ``iter_changes``. (Robert Collins)

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* Updated developer documentation. (Martin Pool)

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* Exporters now take 4 parameters. (Robert Collins)

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* ``addCleanup`` now takes ``*arguments`` and ``**keyword_arguments``

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* Disable reading ``.bzrrules`` as a per-branch rule preferences

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* Update the windows installer to bundle TortoiseBzr and ``qbzr``

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knit repositories to pack format. (Andrew Bennetts)

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* ``bzr check`` can now be told which elements at a location it should

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registered handlers. (Guillermo Gonzalez, #162469)

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bug fixes.

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* New ``pre_change_branch_tip`` hook that is called before the

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* ``bzr export --format=tgz --root=NAME -`` to export a gzipped tarball

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``Branch.set_last_revision_ex``. (Andrew Bennetts)

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* Added *Using stacked branches* to the User Guide.

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* ``-Dmemory`` will cause /proc/PID/status to be catted before bzr

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``RemoteBranch`` instances. (Andrew Bennetts)

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* Removed ``Repository.text_store``, ``control_store``, etc. Instead,

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* Avoid KnitCorrupt error extracting inventories from some repositories.

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* Added the 'alias' command to set/unset and display aliases. (Tim Penhey)

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* Added *Bazaar Zen* section to the User Guide. (Ian Clatworthy)

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* ``bzrlib.bzrdir.BzrDir.sprout`` now accepts ``stacked`` to control

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* Deprecation warnings will not be suppressed when running ``bzr selftest``

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* Adding ``-Derror`` will now display a traceback when a plugin fails to

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* ``bzr branch/push/pull -r XXX`` now have a helper function for finding

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the revno of the new revision (``Graph.find_distance_to_null``). This

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(John Arbash Meinel, #172649)

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Bugfixes

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* ``bzr merge --lca`` should handle when two revisions have no common

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ancestor other than NULL_REVISION. (John Arbash Meinel, #235715)

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scope. (Daniel Fischer #235687)

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Documentation

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* Added directory structure and started translation of docs in spanish.

2444

(Martin Albisetti, Lucio Albenga)

2454

* Updated Tortise strategy document. (Mark Hammond)

2455

2456

Testing

2457

=======

2457

*******

2458

2459

* ``bzrlib.tests.adapt_tests`` was broken and unused - it has been fixed.

2460

(Robert Collins)

2466

``split_suite_by_condition``. (Robert Collins)

2467

2468

Internals

2469

=========

2469

*********

2470

2471

* ``Branch.missing_revisions`` has been deprecated. Similar functionality

2472

can be obtained using ``bzrlib.missing.find_unmerged``. The api was

2474

(John Arbash Meinel)

2475

2476

API Changes

2477

===========

2477

***********

2478

2479

* ``Branch.abspath`` is deprecated; use the Tree or Transport

2480

instead. (Martin Pool)

2545

squashed, including fixes to log, bzr+ssh inter-operation with older servers.

2546

2547

Changes

2548

=======

2548

*******

2549

2550

* Suppress deprecation warnings when bzrlib is a 'final' release. This way

2551

users of packaged software won't be bothered with DeprecationWarnings,

2552

but developers and testers will still see them. (John Arbash Meinel)

2553

2554

Documentation

2555

=============

2555

*************

2556

2557

* Incorporate feedback from Jelmer Vernooij and Neil Martinsen-Burrell

2558

on the plugin and integration chapters of the User Guide.

2563

#####################

2564

2565

Changes

2566

=======

2566

*******

2567

2568

* Broader support of GNU Emacs mail clients. Set

2569

``mail_client=emacsclient`` in your bazaar.conf and ``send`` will pop the

2571

variable. (Xavier Maillard)

2572

2573

Improvements

2574

============

2574

************

2575

2576

* Diff now handles revision specs like "branch:" and "submit:" more

2577

efficiently. (Aaron Bentley, #202928)

2583

(Aaron Bentley)

2584

2585

Bugfixes

2586

========

2586

********

2587

2588

* Authentication.conf can define sections without password.

2589

(Vincent Ladeuil, #199440)

2653

(John Arbash Meinel, #215522)

2654

2655

Documentation

2656

=============

2656

*************

2657

2658

* Expanded the User Guide to include new chapters on popular plugins and

2659

integrating Bazaar into your environment. The *Best practices* chapter

2668

(Vincent Ladeuil, #183705)

2669

2670

Testing

2671

=======

2671

*******

2672

2673

* Add ``thread_name_suffix`` parameter to SmartTCPServer_for_testing, to

2674

make it easy to identify which test spawned a thread with an unhandled

2693

load_tests). (Vincent Ladeuil)

2694

2695

Internals

2696

=========

2696

*********

2697

2698

* ``Hooks.install_hook`` is now deprecated in favour of

2699

``Hooks.install_named_hook`` which adds a required ``name`` parameter, to

2711

a test checks this. (Martin Pool)

2712

2713

API Changes

2714

===========

2714

***********

2715

2716

* ``bzrlib.status.show_pending_merges`` requires the repository to be

2717

locked by the caller. Callers should have been doing it anyway, but it

2742

and faster performance.

2743

2744

Bug Fixes

2745

=========

2745

*********

2746

2747

* Pushing a branch in "dirstate" format (Branch5) over bzr+ssh would break

2748

if the remote server was < version 1.2. This was due to a bug in the

2754

#####################

2755

2756

Bug Fixes

2757

=========

2757

*********

2758

2759

* ``bzr log -r ..X bzr://`` was failing, because it was getting a request

2760

for ``revision_id=None`` which was not a string.

2778

#####################

2779

2780

Changes

2781

=======

2781

*******

2782

2783

* bzr main script cannot be imported (Benjamin Peterson)

2784

2803

(James Wesby, Andrew Cowie)

2804

2805

Features

2806

========

2806

********

2807

2808

* Added start_commit hook for mutable trees. (Jelmer Vernooij, #186422)

2809

2820

repository. (Aaron Bentley)

2821

2822

Improvements

2823

============

2823

************

2824

2825

* The smart protocol now has support for setting branches' revision info

2826

directly. This should make operations like push slightly faster, and is a

2868

revnos and revision ids are faster. (John A. Meinel, Aaron Bentley)

2869

2870

Bugfixes

2871

========

2871

********

2872

2873

* Add ``root_client_path`` parameter to SmartWSGIApp and

2874

SmartServerRequest. This makes it possible to publish filesystem

2912

(Marcus Trautwig, #129786)

2913

2914

Documentation

2915

=============

2915

*************

2916

2917

* Improved documentation on send/merge relationship. (Peter Schuller)

2918

2923

* Added Integrating with Bazaar document for developers (Martin Albisetti)

2924

2925

API Breaks

2926

==========

2926

**********

2927

2928

* Attempting to pull data from a ghost aware repository (e.g. knits) into a

2929

non-ghost aware repository such as weaves will now fail if there are

3005

callers to preserve performance). (Robert Collins)

3006

3007

Testing

3008

=======

3008

*******

3009

3010

* New -Dselftest_debug flag disables clearing of the debug flags during

3011

tests. This is useful if you want to use e.g. -Dhpss to help debug a

3033

they succeeded. (Andrew Bennetts)

3034

3035

Internals

3036

=========

3036

*********

3037

3038

* Added ``_build_client_protocol`` to ``_SmartClient``. (Andrew Bennetts)

3039

3072

#######################

3073

3074

Bug Fixes

3075

=========

3075

*********

3076

3077

* Fix a bug causing a ValueError crash in ``parse_line_delta_iter`` when

3078

fetching revisions from a knit to pack repository or vice versa using

3090

features have been added.

3091

3092

Testing

3093

=======

3093

*******

3094

3095

* Avoid spurious failure of ``TestVersion.test_version`` matching

3096

directory names.

3101

#####################

3102

3103

Notes When Upgrading

3104

====================

3104

********************

3105

3106

* The backup directory created by ``upgrade`` is now called

3107

``backup.bzr``, not ``.bzr.backup``. (Martin Albisetti)

3108

3109

Changes

3110

=======

3110

*******

3111

3112

* A new repository format 'development' has been added. This format will

3113

represent the latest 'in-progress' format that the bzr developers are

3133

missing final fields. (Martin Pool)

3134

3135

Features

3136

========

3136

********

3137

3138

* ``branch`` and ``checkout`` can hard-link working tree files, which is

3139

faster and saves space. (Aaron Bentley)

3143

(Jelmer Vernooij)

3144

3145

Improvements

3146

============

3146

************

3147

3148

* BzrBranch._lefthand_history is faster on pack repos. (Aaron Bentley)

3149

3178

to all subsequent merges.) (John Arbash Meinel)

3179

3180

Bugfixes

3181

========

3181

********

3182

3183

* Autopacking no longer holds the full set of inventory lines in

3184

memory while copying. For large repositories, this can amount to

3227

errors. (Aaron Bentley, #196780)

3228

3229

Documentation

3230

=============

3230

*************

3231

3232

* Explained how to use ``version-info --custom`` in the User Guide.

3233

(Neil Martinsen-Burrell)

3234

3235

API Breaks

3236

==========

3236

**********

3237

3238

* Support for loading plugins from zip files and

3239

``bzrlib.plugin.load_from_zip()`` function are deprecated.

3240

(Alexander Belchenko)

3241

3242

Testing

3243

=======

3243

*******

3244

3245

* Added missing blackbox tests for ``modified`` (Adrian Wilkins)

3246

3249

(Robert Collins)

3250

3251

Internals

3252

=========

3252

*********

3253

3254

* ``Graph.iter_ancestry`` returns the ancestry of revision ids. Similar to

3255

``Repository.get_revision_graph()`` except it includes ghosts and you can

3288

##################

3289

3290

Bug Fixes

3291

=========

3291

*********

3292

3293

* Fix failing test in Launchpad plugin. (Martin Pool)

3294

3297

#####################

3298

3299

Notes When Upgrading

3300

====================

3300

********************

3301

3302

* Fetching via the smart protocol may need to reconnect once during a fetch

3303

if the remote server is running Bazaar 1.1 or earlier, because the client

3307

(Andrew Bennetts)

3308

3309

Changes

3310

=======

3310

*******

3311

3312

* Fetching via bzr+ssh will no longer fill ghosts by default (this is

3313

consistent with pack-0.92 fetching over SFTP). (Robert Collins)

3325

(Aaron Bentley)

3326

3327

Features

3328

========

3328

********

3329

3330

* ``merge --preview`` produces a diff of the changes merge would make,

3331

but does not actually perform the merge. (Aaron Bentley)

3351

have an expected lifetime of one day. (Tim Penhey)

3352

3353

Improvements

3354

============

3354

************

3355

3356

* Creating a new branch no longer tries to read the entire revision-history

3357

unnecessarily over smart server operations. (Robert Collins)

3371

(John Arbash Meinel)

3372

3373

Bugfixes

3374

========

3374

********

3375

3376

* Calculate remote path relative to the shared medium in _SmartClient. This

3377

is related to the problem in bug #124089. (Andrew Bennetts)

3425

tracebacks. (Andrew Bennetts, #182849)

3426

3427

API Breaks

3428

==========

3428

**********

3429

3430

* Classes implementing Merge types like Merge3Merger must now accept (and

3431

honour) a do_merge flag in their constructor. (Aaron Bentley)

3435

(Martin Pool)

3436

3437

Testing

3438

=======

3438

*******

3439

3440

* selftest now accepts --load-list <file> to load a test id list. This

3441

speeds up running the test suite on a limited set of tests.

3442

(Vincent Ladeuil)

3443

3444

Internals

3445

=========

3445

*********

3446

3447

* Add a new method ``get_result`` to graph search objects. The resulting

3448

``SearchResult`` can be used to recreate the search later, which will

3504

#####################

3505

3506

Changes

3507

=======

3507

*******

3508

3509

* Dotted revision numbers have been revised. Instead of growing longer with

3510

nested branches the branch number just increases. (eg instead of 1.1.1.1.1

3517

specific file to diff within ``branch1``.

3518

3519

Features

3520

========

3520

********

3521

3522

* New option to use custom template-based formats in ``bzr version-info``.

3523

(Lukáš Lalinský)

3529

criss-cross merges. (Aaron Bentley)

3530

3531

Improvements

3532

============

3532

************

3533

3534

* ``annotate`` now doesn't require a working tree. (Lukáš Lalinský,

3535

#90049)

3567

pieces. (Aaron Bentley)

3568

3569

Bugfixes

3570

========

3570

********

3571

3572

* Avoid AttributeError when unlocking a pack repository when an error occurs.

3573

(Martin Pool, #180208)

3631

(Vincent Ladeuil, #175886)

3632

3633

Documentation

3634

=============

3634

*************

3635

3636

* Minor tweaks made to the bug tracker integration documentation.

3637

(Ian Clatworthy)

3646

* *Using Bazaar with Launchpad* tutorial added. (Ian Clatworthy)

3647

3648

Internals

3649

=========

3649

*********

3650

3651

* find_* methods available for BzrDirs, Branches and WorkingTrees.

3652

(Aaron Bentley)

3668

(Vincent Ladeuil)

3669

3670

API Breaks

3671

==========

3671

**********

3672

3673

Testing

3674

=======

3674

*******

3675

3676

* Modules can now customise their tests by defining a ``load_tests``

3677

attribute. ``pydoc bzrlib.tests.TestUtil.TestLoader.loadTestsFromModule``

3715

##################

3716

3717

Documentation

3718

=============

3718

*************

3719

3720

* More improvements and fixes to the User Guide. (Ian Clatworthy)

3721

3733

#####################

3734

3735

Changes

3736

=======

3736

*******

3737

3738

* If a traceback occurs, users are now asked to report the bug

3739

through Launchpad (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/), rather than

3741

(Martin Pool)

3742

3743

Bugfixes

3744

========

3744

********

3745

3746

* Fix Makefile rules for doc generation. (Ian Clatworthy, #175207)

3747

3755

bundles against branches on a smart server. (Andrew Bennetts, #147836)

3756

3757

Documentation

3758

=============

3758

*************

3759

3760

* Improved user guide. (Ian Clatworthy)

3761

3763

(Ian Clatworthy)

3764

3765

Internals

3766

=========

3766

*********

3767

3768

* readv urllib http implementation is now a real iterator above the

3769

underlying socket and deliver data as soon as it arrives. 'get' still

3775

#####################

3776

3777

Improvements

3778

============

3778

************

3779

3780

* Added a --coverage option to selftest. (Andrew Bennetts)

3781

3811

to has been moved. (Ian Clatworthy)

3812

3813

Internals

3814

=========

3814

*********

3815

3816

* New -Dhttp debug option reports http connections, requests and responses.

3817

(Vincent Ladeuil)

3819

* New -Dmerge debug option, which emits merge plans for merge-type=weave.

3820

3821

Bugfixes

3822

========

3822

********

3823

3824

* Better error message when running ``bzr cat`` on a non-existant branch.

3825

(Lukáš Lalinský, #133782)

3840

committer/author has only e-mail. (Lukáš Lalinský, #157026)

3841

3842

API Breaks

3843

==========

3843

**********

3844

3845

* Deprecate not passing a ``location`` argument to commit reporters'

3846

``started`` methods. (Matt Nordhoff)

3850

#####################

3851

3852

Notes When Upgrading

3853

====================

3853

********************

3854

3855

* The default repository format is now ``pack-0.92``. This

3856

default is used when creating new repositories with ``init`` and

3878

(Robert Collins, Martin Pool, #164476)

3879

3880

Changes

3881

=======

3881

*******

3882

3883

* Disable detection of plink.exe as possible ssh vendor. Plink vendor

3884

still available if user selects it explicitly with BZR_SSH environment

3890

(Martin Pool)

3891

3892

Features

3893

========

3893

********

3894

3895

* New ``authentication.conf`` file holding the password or other credentials

3896

for remote servers. This can be used for ssh, sftp, smtp and other

3913

lightweight checkouts. (Aaron Bentley)

3914

3915

Performance

3916

===========

3916

***********

3917

3918

* Commit updates the state of the working tree via a delta rather than

3919

supplying entirely new basis trees. For commit of a single specified file

3939

(Aaron Bentley)

3940

3941

Improvements

3942

============

3942

************

3943

3944

* ``bzr merge`` now warns when it encounters a criss-cross merge.

3945

(Aaron Bentley)

3959

about paths and bzr version. (Alexander Belchenko, #129298)

3960

3961

Documentation

3962

=============

3962

*************

3963

3964

Bug Fixes

3965

=========

3965

*********

3966

3967

* A progress bar has been added for knitpack -> knitpack fetching.

3968

(Robert Collins, #157789, #159147)

4091

(Vincent Ladeuil, #157752)

4092

4093

API Breaks

4094

==========

4094

**********

4095

4096

* ``osutils.backup_file`` is deprecated. Actually it's not used in bzrlib

4097

during very long time. (Alexander Belchenko)

4111

(Martin Pool)

4112

4113

Internals

4114

=========

4114

*********

4115

4116

* Added ``ContainerSerialiser`` and ``ContainerPushParser`` to

4117

``bzrlib.pack``. These classes provide more convenient APIs for generating

4128

###################

4129

4130

Changes

4131

=======

4131

*******

4132

4133

* New uninstaller on Win32. (Alexander Belchenko)

4134

4137

######################

4138

4139

Changes

4140

=======

4140

*******

4141

4142

* ``bzr`` now returns exit code 4 if an internal error occurred, and

4143

3 if a normal error occurred. (Martin Pool)

4157

(Robert Collins)

4158

4159

Features

4160

========

4160

********

4161

4162

* New ``knitpack-experimental`` repository format. This is interoperable with

4163

the ``dirstate-tags`` format but uses a smarter storage design that greatly

4185

Launchpad plugin. (James Henstridge)

4186

4187

Performance

4188

===========

4188

***********

4189

4190

* Commit in quiet mode is now slightly faster as the information to

4191

output is no longer calculated. (Ian Clatworthy)

4219

unnecessarily. (Robert Collins)

4220

4221

Improvements

4222

============

4222

************

4223

4224

* ``bzr+https://`` smart server across https now supported.

4225

(John Ferlito, Martin Pool, #128456)

4237

``experimental = True`` during registration. (Ian Clatworthy)

4238

4239

Documentation

4240

=============

4240

*************

4241

4242

* New *Bazaar in Five Minutes* guide. (Matthew Revell)

4243

4245

(Ian Clatworthy)

4246

4247

Bug Fixes

4248

=========

4248

*********

4249

4250

* Connection error reporting for the smart server has been fixed to

4251

display a user friendly message instead of a traceback.

4326

Merwe)

4327

4328

API Breaks

4329

==========

4329

**********

4330

4331

* ``bzrlib.index.GraphIndex`` now requires a size parameter to the

4332

constructor, for enabling bisection searches. (Robert Collins)

4375

(Robert Collins)

4376

4377

Internals

4378

=========

4378

*********

4379

4380

* ``bzrlib.transport.Transport.put_file`` now returns the number of bytes

4381

put by the method call, to allow avoiding stat-after-write or

4439

(Andrew Bennetts, Ian Clatworthy)

4440

4441

Testing

4442

=======

4442

*******

4443

4444

* New transport implementation ``trace+`` which is useful for testing,

4445

logging activity taken to its _activity attribute. (Robert Collins)

4458

###################

4459

4460

Bug Fixes

4461

=========

4461

*********

4462

4463

* Print a warning instead of aborting the ``python setup.py install``

4464

process if building of a C extension is not possible.

4487

######################

4488

4489

Changes

4490

=======

4490

*******

4491

4492

* The default branch and repository format has changed to

4493

``dirstate-tags``, so tag commands are active by default.

4501

(Ian Clatworthy)

4502

4503

Features

4504

========

4504

********

4505

4506

* New option ``--author`` in ``bzr commit`` to specify the author of the

4507

change, if it's different from the committer. ``bzr log`` and

4538

revisions. (Andrew Bennetts)

4539

4540

Bug Fixes

4541

=========

4541

*********

4542

4543

* ``bzr plugins`` now lists the version number for each plugin in square

4544

brackets after the path. (Robert Collins, #125421)

4633

(Lukáš Lalinský, Alexander Belchenko)

4634

4635

Improvements

4636

============

4636

************

4637

4638

* Add the option "--show-diff" to the commit command in order to display

4639

the diff during the commit log creation. (Goffredo Baroncelli)

4694

checked, and possibly reconciled ASAP. (Aaron Bentley, Andrew Bennetts)

4695

4696

API Breaks

4697

==========

4697

**********

4698

4699

* ``Branch.append_revision`` is removed altogether; please use

4700

``Branch.set_last_revision_info`` instead. (Martin Pool)

4714

previous release. (Martin Pool)

4715

4716

Testing

4717

=======

4717

*******

4718

4719

* Tests may now raise TestNotApplicable to indicate they shouldn't be

4720

run in a particular scenario. (Martin Pool)

4732

non-ASCII committer names. (Lukáš Lalinský)

4733

4734

Internals

4735

=========

4735

*********

4736

4737

* ``bzrlib.plugin.all_plugins`` has been deprecated in favour of

4738

``bzrlib.plugin.plugins()`` which returns PlugIn objects that provide

4815

###################

4816

4817

Improvements

4818

============

4818

************

4819

4820

* Documentation is now organized into multiple directories with a level

4821

added for different languages or locales. Added the Mini Tutorial

4828

4829

4830

API Changes

4831

===========

4831

***********

4832

4833

* The static convenience method ``BzrDir.create_repository``

4834

is deprecated. Callers should instead create a ``BzrDir`` instance

4839

######################

4840

4841

Bugfixes

4842

========

4842

********

4843

4844

* ``bzr init`` should connect to the remote location one time only. We

4845

have been connecting several times because we forget to pass around the

4884

(Aaron Bentley)

4885

4886

Improvements

4887

============

4887

************

4888

4889

* Don't show "dots" progress indicators when run non-interactively, such

4890

as from cron. (Martin Pool)

4977

when installation finished. (Alexander Belchenko)

4978

4979

Library API Breaks

4980

==================

4980

******************

4981

4982

* Deprecated dictionary ``bzrlib.option.SHORT_OPTIONS`` removed.

4983

Options are now required to provide a help string and it must

4997

element tuple is in use. (Robert Collins)

4998

4999

Internals

5000

=========

5000

*********

5001

5002

* merge now uses ``iter_changes`` to calculate changes, which makes room for

5003

future performance increases. It is also more consistent with other

5094

current production repository form of .knit files. (Robert Collins)

5095

5096

Testing

5097

=======

5097

*******

5098

5099

* Remove selftest ``--clean-output``, ``--numbered-dirs`` and

5100

``--keep-output`` options, which are obsolete now that tests

5112

####################

5113

5114

Bugfixes

5115

========

5115

********

5116

5117

* Fix 'bzr add' crash under Win32 (Kuno Meyer)

5118

5121

#######################

5122

5123

Bugfixes

5124

========

5124

********

5125

5126

* Do not suppress pipe errors, etc. in non-display commands

5127

(Alexander Belchenko, #87178)

5169

* Make annotate behave in a non-ASCII world (Adeodato Simó).

5170

5171

Improvements

5172

============

5172

************

5173

5174

* The --lsprof-file option now dumps a text rendering of the profiling

5175

information if the filename ends in ".txt". It will also convert the

5240

(Andrew Bennetts)

5241

5242

Library API Breaks

5243

==================

5243

******************

5244

5245

* Testing cleanups -

5246

``bzrlib.repository.RepositoryTestProviderAdapter`` has been moved

5284

same location. (Robert Collins)

5285

5286

Internals

5287

=========

5287

*********

5288

5289

* New SMTPConnection class to unify email handling. (Adeodato Simó)

5290

5334

(Alexander Belchenko)

5335

5336

Testing

5337

=======

5337

*******

5338

5339

* Removed the ``--keep-output`` option from selftest and clean up test

5340

directories as they're used. This reduces the IO load from

5373

####################

5374

5375

Bugfixes

5376

========

5376

********

5377

5378

* Fix crash of commit due to wrong lookup of filesystem encoding.

5379

(Colin Watson, #120647)

5386

#######################

5387

5388

Notes When Upgrading

5389

====================

5389

********************

5390

5391

* The kind() and is_executable() APIs on the WorkingTree interface no

5392

longer implicitly (read) locks and unlocks the tree. This *might*

5403

work_tree.unlock()

5404

5405

Internals

5406

=========

5406

*********

5407

* Rework of LogFormatter API to provide beginning/end of log hooks and to

5408

encapsulate the details of the revision to be logged in a LogRevision

5409

object.

5416

too. (Robert Collins)

5417

5418

Improvements

5419

============

5419

************

5420

5421

* There are two new help topics, working-trees and repositories that

5422

attempt to explain these concepts. (James Westby, John Arbash Meinel,

5446

#56322)

5447

5448

Bugfixes

5449

========

5449

********

5450

5451

* ``bzr push`` should only connect to the remote location one time.

5452

We have been connecting 3 times because we forget to pass around

5488

####################

5489

5490

Bugfixes

5491

========

5491

********

5492

5493

* Handle when you have 2 directories with similar names, but one has a

5494

hyphen. (``'abc'`` versus ``'abc-2'``). The WT4._iter_changes

5504

a branch bound to a smartserver branch. (Martin Pool, #111968)

5505

5506

Improvements

5507

============

5507

************

5508

5509

* Move developer documentation to doc/developers/. This reduces clutter in

5510

the root of the source tree and allows HACKING to be split into multiple

5519

#######################

5520

5521

Bugfixes

5522

========

5522

********

5523

5524

* Handle the case when you delete a file, and then rename another file

5525

on top of it. Also handle the case of ``bzr rm --keep foo``. ``bzr

5543

#######################

5544

5545

Notes When Upgrading

5546

====================

5546

********************

5547

5548

* ``bzr remove`` and ``bzr rm`` will now remove the working file, if

5549

it could be recovered again.

5557

(Marius Kruger, #82602)

5558

5559

Improvements

5560

============

5560

************

5561

5562

* Merge directives can now be supplied as input to `merge` and `pull`,

5563

like bundles can. (Aaron Bentley)

5654

(Vincent Ladeuil).

5655

5656

Internals

5657

=========

5657

*********

5658

5659

* bzrlib API compatability with 0.8 has been dropped, cleaning up some

5660

code paths. (Robert Collins)

5748

(Andrew Bennetts)

5749

5750

Bugfixes

5751

========

5751

********

5752

5753

* Don't fail bundle selftest if email has 'two' embedded.

5754

(Ian Clatworthy, #98510)

5809

(Vincent Ladeuil, #94034).

5810

5811

Testing

5812

=======

5812

*******

5813

5814

* Added ``bzrlib.strace.strace`` which will strace a single callable and

5815

return a StraceResult object which contains just the syscalls involved

5851

###################

5852

5853

Bugfixes

5854

========

5854

********

5855

5856

* Handle incompatible repositories as a user issue when fetching.

5857

(Aaron Bentley)

5864

#######################

5865

5866

Changes

5867

=======

5867

*******

5868

5869

* A warning is now displayed when opening working trees in older

5870

formats, to encourage people to upgrade to WorkingTreeFormat4.

5871

(Martin Pool)

5872

5873

Improvements

5874

============

5874

************

5875

5876

* HTTP redirections are now taken into account when a branch (or a

5877

bundle) is accessed for the first time. A message is issued at each

5884

path. (vila)

5885

5886

Internals

5887

=========

5887

*********

5888

5889

* Added ``ReadLock.temporary_write_lock()`` to allow upgrading an OS read

5890

lock to an OS write lock. Linux can do this without unlocking, Win32

5905

``_cache_revision_history`` at appropriate times. (Andrew Bennetts)

5906

5907

Bugfixes

5908

========

5908

********

5909

5910

* Take ``smtp_server`` from user config into account.

5911

(vila, #92195)

5940

#######################

5941

5942

Notes When Upgrading

5943

====================

5943

********************

5944

5945

* Release 0.15rc2 of bzr changes the ``bzr init-repo`` command to

5946

default to ``--trees`` instead of ``--no-trees``.

5947

Existing shared repositories are not affected.

5948

5949

Improvements

5950

============

5950

************

5951

5952

* New ``merge-directive`` command to generate machine- and human-readable

5953

merge requests. (Aaron Bentley)

5964

markers. (Aaron Bentley)

5965

5966

Internals

5967

=========

5967

*********

5968

5969

* Refactored SSH vendor registration into SSHVendorManager class.

5970

(Dmitry Vasiliev)

5971

5972

Bugfixes

5973

========

5973

********

5974

5975

* New ``--numbered-dirs`` option to ``bzr selftest`` to use

5976

numbered dirs for TestCaseInTempDir. This is default behavior

5994

#######################

5995

5996

Surprises

5997

=========

5997

*********

5998

5999

* The default disk format has changed. Please run 'bzr upgrade' in your

6000

working trees to upgrade. This new default is compatible for network

6022

Collins, John A Meinel, Martin Pool, and others).

6023

6024

Improvements

6025

============

6025

************

6026

6027

* Support for OS Windows 98. Also .bzr.log on any windows system

6028

saved in My Documents folder. (Alexander Belchenko)

6091

(Aaron Bentley)

6092

6093

Internals

6094

=========

6094

*********

6095

6096

* Internally revision ids and file ids are now passed around as utf-8

6097

bytestrings, rather than treating them as Unicode strings. This has

6170

(Aaron Bentley, Martin Pool, Robert Collins).

6171

6172

Bugfixes

6173

========

6173

********

6174

6175

* ``bzr annotate`` now uses dotted revnos from the viewpoint of the

6176

branch, rather than the last changed revision of the file.

6215

(Johan Dahlberg, #75577)

6216

6217

Testing

6218

=======

6218

*******

6219

6220

* New ``--first`` option to ``bzr selftest`` to run specified tests

6221

before the rest of the suite. (Martin Pool)

6225

####################

6226

6227

Improvements

6228

============

6228

************

6229

6230

* ``bzr help global-options`` describes the global options. (Aaron Bentley)

6231

6232

Bug Fixes

6233

=========

6233

*********

6234

6235

* Skip documentation generation tests if the tools to do so are not

6236

available. Fixes running selftest for installled copies of bzr.

6245

#######################

6246

6247

Improvements

6248

============

6248

************

6249

6250

* New connection: ``bzr+http://`` which supports tunnelling the smart

6251

protocol over an HTTP connection. If writing is enabled on the bzr

6304

* ``bzr help formats`` describes available directory formats. (Aaron Bentley)

6305

6306

Internals

6307

=========

6307

*********

6308

6309

* A few tweaks directly to ``fileids_affected_by_revision_ids`` to

6310

help speed up processing, as well allowing to extract unannotated

6331

* Formats for end-user selection are provided via a FormatRegistry (Aaron Bentley)

6332

6333

Bug Fixes

6334

=========

6334

*********

6335

6336

* ``bzr missing --verbose`` was showing adds/removals in the wrong

6337

direction. (John Arbash Meinel)

6386

#######################

6387

6388

Improvements

6389

============

6389

************

6390

6391

* New command ``bzr remove-tree`` allows the removal of the working

6392

tree from a branch.

6417

the size of inventory.knit from 11MB to 5.4MB) (John Arbash Meinel)

6418

6419

Internals

6420

=========

6420

*********

6421

6422

* New -D option given before the command line turns on debugging output

6423

for particular areas. -Derror shows tracebacks on all errors.

6443

Bennetts)

6444

6445

Bug Fixes

6446

=========

6446

*********

6447

6448

* Now ``_KnitIndex`` properly decode revision ids when loading index data.

6449

And optimize the knit index parsing code.

6503

(Cheuksan Edward Wang, #30190)

6504

6505

Testing

6506

=======

6506

*******

6507

6508

* TestingHTTPRequestHandler really handles the Range header

6509

(previously it was ignoring it and returning the whole file,).

6512

####################

6513

6514

Internals

6515

=========

6515

*********

6516

6517

* Clean up ``bzr selftest --benchmark bundle`` to correct an import,

6518

and remove benchmarks that take longer than 10min to run.

6522

#######################

6523

6524

Improvements

6525

============

6525

************

6526

6527

* ``bzr log`` now shows dotted-decimal revision numbers for all revisions,

6528

rather than just showing a decimal revision number for revisions on the

6546

(John Arbash Meinel, Adeodato Simó)

6547

6548

API Incompatability

6549

===================

6549

*******************

6550

6551

* LogFormatter subclasses show now expect the 'revno' parameter to

6552

show() to be a string rather than an int. (Robert Collins)

6553

6554

Internals

6555

=========

6555

*********

6556

6557

* ``TestCase.run_bzr``, ``run_bzr_captured``, and ``run_bzr_subprocess``

6558

can take a ``working_dir='foo'`` parameter, which will change directory

6590

``LogFormatter.show_merge_revno``. (Robert Collins)

6591

6592

Bug Fixes

6593

=========

6593

*********

6594

6595

* Avoid circular imports by creating a deprecated function for

6596

``bzrlib.tree.RevisionTree``. Callers should have been using

6629

#32054)

6630

6631

Testing

6632

=======

6632

*******

6633

6634

* New test base class TestCaseWithMemoryTransport offers memory-only

6635

testing facilities: its not suitable for tests that need to mutate disk

6649

#######################

6650

6651

Bug Fixes

6652

=========

6652

*********

6653

6654

* Test suite hangs on windows fixed. (Andrew Bennets, Alexander Belchenko).

6655

6660

#######################

6661

6662

Improvements

6663

============

6663

************

6664

6665

* Knit files now wait to create their contents until the first data is

6666

added. The old code used to create an empty .knit and a .kndx with just

6701

(John Arbash Meinel)

6702

6703

Bug Fixes

6704

=========

6704

*********

6705

6706

* ``'bzr inventory [FILE...]'`` allows restricting the file list to a

6707

specific set of files. (John Arbash Meinel, #3631)

6758

may be specified (Aaron Bentley, #50793)

6759

6760

Portability

6761

===========

6761

***********

6762

6763

* Fixes to run on Python 2.5 (Brian M. Carlson, Martin Pool, Marien Zwart)

6764

6765

Internals

6766

=========

6766

*********

6767

6768

* TestCaseInTempDir now creates a separate directory for HOME, rather

6769

than having HOME set to the same location as the working directory.

6837

(Andrew Bennetts, Robert Collins)

6838

6839

Testing

6840

=======

6840

*******

6841

6842

* New test helper classs MemoryTree. This is typically accessed via

6843

``self.make_branch_and_memory_tree()`` in test cases. (Robert Collins)

6854

####################

6855

6856

Improvements

6857

============

6857

************

6858

* 'merge' now takes --uncommitted, to apply uncommitted changes from a

6859

tree. (Aaron Bentley)

6860

6876

(Robert Collins, John Arbash Meinel)

6877

6878

Bug Fixes

6879

=========

6879

*********

6880

6881

* Help diffutils 2.8.4 get along with binary tests (Marien Zwart: #57614)

6882

6916

test helper. (John Arbash Meinel, Robert Collins, #58057)

6917

6918

Internals

6919

=========

6919

*********

6920

6921

* ``bzrlib.cache_utf8`` contains ``encode()`` and ``decode()`` functions

6922

which can be used to cache the conversion between utf8 and Unicode.

6932

#####################

6933

6934

Surprises

6935

=========

6935

*********

6936

6937

* The hard-coded built-in ignore rules have been removed. There are

6938

now two rulesets which are enforced. A user global one in

6950

(Aaron Bentley)

6951

6952

Improvements

6953

============

6953

************

6954

6955

* The revision specifier "revno:" is extended to accept the syntax

6956

revno:N:branch. For example,

7062

is available (paramiko > 1.6) (John Arbash Meinel)

7063

7064

Bug Fixes

7065

=========

7065

*********

7066

7067

* Fix shadowed definition of TestLocationConfig that caused some

7068

tests not to run.

7151

accessible (John Arbash Meinel, #52976)

7152

7153

Internals

7154

=========

7154

*********

7155

7156

* Combine the ignore rules into a single regex rather than looping over

7157

them to reduce the threshold where N^2 behaviour occurs in operations

7200

#####################

7201

7202

Bug Fixes

7203

=========

7203

*********

7204

7205

* setup.py failed to install launchpad plugin. (Martin Pool)

7206

7208

#####################

7209

7210

Bug Fixes

7211

=========

7211

*********

7212

7213

* Fix failure to commit a merge in a checkout. (Martin Pool,

7214

Robert Collins, Erik Bågfors, #43959)

7221

(Olaf Conradi, #44443)

7222

7223

Changes

7224

=======

7224

*******

7225

7226

* Do not show the None revision in output of bzr ancestry. (Olaf Conradi)

7227

7231

* Fix bug in knits when raising InvalidRevisionId. (Olaf Conradi, #44284)

7232

7233

Changes

7234

=======

7234

*******

7235

7236

* Make editor invocation comply with Debian Policy. First check

7237

environment variables VISUAL and EDITOR, then try editor from

7239

list of editors. (Olaf Conradi, #42904)

7240

7241

New Features

7242

============

7242

************

7243

7244

* New 'register-branch' command registers a public branch into

7245

Launchpad.net, where it can be associated with bugs, etc.

7246

(Martin Pool, Bjorn Tillenius, Robert Collins)

7247

7248

Internals

7249

=========

7249

*********

7250

7251

* New public api in InventoryEntry - ``describe_change(old, new)`` which

7252

provides a human description of the changes between two old and

7253

new. (Robert Collins, Martin Pool)

7254

7255

Testing

7256

=======

7256

*******

7257

7258

* Fix test case for bzr info in upgrading a standalone branch to metadir,

7259

uses bzrlib api now. (Olaf Conradi)

7262

###################

7263

7264

Notes When Upgrading

7265

====================

7265

********************

7266

7267

Release 0.8 of bzr introduces a new format for history storage, called

7268

'knit', as an evolution of to the 'weave' format used in 0.7. Local

7298

7299

7300

Improvements

7301

============

7301

************

7302

7303

* sftp paths can now be relative, or local, according to the lftp

7304

convention. Paths now take the form::

7412

(Robert Collins)

7413

7414

Changes

7415

=======

7415

*******

7416

7417

* Commit is now verbose by default, and shows changed filenames and the

7418

new revision number. (Robert Collins, Martin Pool)

7430

'upgrade'. (Olaf Conradi)

7431

7432

Internals

7433

=========

7433

*********

7434

7435

* The internal storage of history, and logical branch identity have now

7436

been split into Branch, and Repository. The common locking and file

7495

the user for yes/no style input. (Robert Collins)

7496

7497

Testing

7498

=======

7498

*******

7499

7500

* SFTP tests now shortcut the SSH negotiation, reducing test overhead

7501

for testing SFTP protocol support. (Robey Pointer)

7524

##################

7525

7526

Changes

7527

=======

7527

*******

7528

7529

* .bzrignore is excluded from exports, on the grounds that it's a bzr

7530

internal-use file and may not be wanted. (Jamie Wilkinson)

7562

files. (John Arbash Meinel, Martin Pool)

7563

7564

Improvements

7565

============

7565

************

7566

7567

* "bzr INIT dir" now initializes the specified directory, and creates

7568

it if it does not exist. (John Arbash Meinel)

7630

(Aaron Bently, with a little prompting from Daniel Silverstone)

7631

7632

Bug Fixes

7633

=========

7633

*********

7634

7635

* SFTP can walk up to the root path without index errors. (Robert Collins)

7636

7681

* Fix failure in 'bzr added'. (Nathan McCallum, Martin Pool)

7682

7683

Testing

7684

=======

7684

*******

7685

7686

* Fix selftest asking for passwords when there are no SFTP keys.

7687

(Robey Pointer, Jelmer Vernooij)

7737

(Robert Collins).

7738

7739

Internals

7740

=========

7740

*********

7741

7742

* WorkingTree.pull has been split across Branch and WorkingTree,

7743

to allow Branch only pulls. (Robert Collins)

7820

##################

7821

7822

Improvements

7823

============

7823

************

7824

7825

* pull now takes --verbose to show you what revisions are added or removed

7826

(John A Meinel)

7897

* 'bzr merge --reprocess' minimizes conflicts

7898

7899

Testing

7900

=======

7900

*******

7901

7902

* The 'bzr selftest --pattern' option for has been removed, now

7903

test specifiers on the command line can be simple strings, or

7918

(Martin Pool)

7919

7920

Internals

7921

=========

7921

*********

7922

7923

* New 'testament' command and concept for making gpg-signatures

7924

of revisions that are not tied to a particular internal

8023

which can be used by programs importing bzrlib.

8024

8025

Bug Fixes

8026

=========

8026

*********

8027

8028

* Better handling of branches in directories with non-ascii names.

8029

(Joel Rosdahl, Panagiotis Papadakos)

8036

####################

8037

8038

Bug Fixes

8039

=========

8039

*********

8040

8041

* Fix problem in pulling over http from machines that do not

8042

allow directories to be listed.

8045

upgrading branch format.

8046

8047

Performance

8048

===========

8048

***********

8049

8050

* Avoid some unnecessary http operations in branch and pull.

8051

8054

##################

8055

8056

Notes

8057

=====

8057

*****

8058

8059

* 'bzr branch' over http initially gives a very high estimate

8060

of completion time but it should fall as the first few

8062

high-latency connections.

8063

8064

Bug Fixes

8065

=========

8065

*********

8066

8067

* bzr-man.py has been updated to work again. Contributed by

8068

Rob Weir.

8100

bzr tree was broken, patch from Scott James Remnant.

8101

8102

Improvements

8103

============

8103

************

8104

8105

* 'branch' now accepts a --basis parameter which will take advantage

8106

of local history when making a new branch. This allows faster

8139

8140

8141

Internals

8142

=========

8142

*********

8143

8144

* Test case failures have the exception printed after the log

8145

for your viewing pleasure.

8171

but allows for more flexibility in future upgrades.

8172

8173

Testing

8174

=======

8174

*******

8175

8176

* Removed testsweet module so that tests can be run after

8177

bzr installed by 'bzr selftest'.

8184

####################

8185

8186

Bug Fixes

8187

=========

8187

*********

8188

8189

* Fixed "branch -r" option.

8190

8199

test suite. Contributed by Alexander Belchenko.

8200

8201

Improvements

8202

============

8202

************

8203

8204

* Status now accepts a -r argument to give status between chosen

8205

revisions. Contributed by Heikki Paajanen.

8214

Windows. Contributed by Alexander Belchenko.

8215

8216

Internals

8217

=========

8217

*********

8218

8219

* Removed uuid() as it was unused.

8220

8226

####################

8227

8228

Improvements

8229

============

8229

************

8230

8231

* Adding a file whose parent directory is not versioned will

8232

implicitly add the parent, and so on up to the root. This means

8249

8250

8251

Internals

8252

=========

8252

*********

8253

8254

* Refactor xml packing/unpacking.

8255

8256

Bug Fixes

8257

=========

8257

*********

8258

8259

* Fixed 'bzr mv' by Ollie Rutherfurd.

8260

8266

8267

8268

Portability

8269

===========

8269

***********

8270

8271

* Various Windows fixes from Ollie Rutherfurd.

8272

8277

####################

8278

8279

New Features

8280

============

8280

************

8281

8282

* ``bzr shell-complete`` command contributed by Clint Adams to

8283

help with intelligent shell completion.

8286

8287

8288

Enhancements

8289

============

8289

************

8290

8291

* Much better merge support.

8292

8296

8297

8298

Bug Fixes

8299

=========

8299

*********

8300

8301

* ``bzr upgrade`` no longer fails when trying to fix trees that

8302

mention revisions that are not present.

8310

8311

8312

Changes

8313

=======

8313

*******

8314

8315

* ``bzr log --show-ids`` shows the revision ids of all parents.

8316

8320

8321

8322

Library

8323

=======

8323

*******

8324

8325

* Changed trace messages to go through the standard logging

8326

framework, so that they can more easily be redirected by

8332

####################

8333

8334

New Features

8335

============

8335

************

8336

8337

* Python plugins, automatically loaded from the directories on

8338

``BZR_PLUGIN_PATH`` or ``~/.bzr.conf/plugins`` by default.

8359

8360

8361

Enhancements

8362

============

8362

************

8363

8364

* Faster working tree operations.

8365

8366

8367

Changes

8368

=======

8368

*******

8369

8370

* 3rd-party modules shipped with bzr are copied within the bzrlib

8371

python package, so that they can be installed by the setup

8409

8410

8411

Bug Fixes

8412

=========

8412

*********

8413

8414

* Fix bugs in committing only selected files or within a subdirectory.

8415

8418

#####################

8419

8420

Changes

8421

=======

8421

*******

8422

8423

* ``bzr`` with no command now shows help rather than giving an

8424

error. Suggested by Michael Ellerman.

8438

8439

8440

Enhancements

8441

============

8441

************

8442

8443

* New 'bzr whoami --email' option shows only the email component

8444

of the user identification, from Jo Vermeulen.

8496

8497

8498

Bug Fixes

8499

=========

8499

*********

8500

8501

* Fixed diff format so that added and removed files will be

8502

handled properly by patch. Fix from Lalo Martins.

8506

8507

8508

Testing

8509

=======

8509

*******

8510

8511

* Converted black-box test suites from Bourne shell into Python;

8512

now run using ``./testbzr``. Various structural improvements to

8525

8526

8527

Internal

8528

========

8528

********

8529

8530

* Included ElementTree library upgraded to 1.2.6 by Fredrik Lundh.

8531

8550

8551

8552

Portability

8553

===========

8553

***********

8554

8555

* Cope on Windows on python2.3 by using the weaker random seed.

8556

2.4 is now only recommended.

8560

#####################

8561

8562

Enhancements

8563

============

8563

************

8564

8565

* 'bzr diff' optionally takes a list of files to diff. Still a bit

8566

basic. Patch from QuantumG.

8579

8580

8581

Changes

8582

=======

8582

*******

8583

8584

* User email is determined by looking at $BZREMAIL or ~/.bzr.email

8585

or $EMAIL. All are decoded by the locale preferred encoding.

8591

8592

8593

Bug Fixes

8594

=========

8594

*********

8595

8596

* Make commit safe for hardlinked bzr trees.

8597

8602

8603

8604

Internal

8605

========

8605

********

8606

8607

* Allow docstrings for help to be in PEP0257 format. Patch from

8608

Matt Brubeck.

8616

8617

8618

Portability

8619

===========

8619

***********

8620

8621

* Fix opening of ~/.bzr.log on Windows. Patch from Andrew

8622

Bennetts.

8629

#####################

8630

8631

Enhancements

8632

============

8632

************

8633

8634

* New "directories" internal command lists versioned directories

8635

in the tree.

8647

* New cat command contributed by janmar.

8648

8649

Changes

8650

=======

8650

*******

8651

8652

* .bzr.log is placed in $HOME (not pwd) and is always written in

8653

UTF-8. (Probably not a completely good long-term solution, but

8654

will do for now.)

8655

8656

Portability

8657

===========

8657

***********

8658

8659

* Workaround for difflib bug in Python 2.3 that causes an

8660

exception when comparing empty files. Reported by Erik Toubro

8661

Nielsen.

8662

8663

Internal

8664

========

8664

********

8665

8666

* Refactored inventory storage to insert a root entry at the top.

8667

8668

Testing

8669

=======

8669

*******

8670

8671

* Start of shell-based black-box testing in test.sh.

8672

8675

###########

8676

8677

Portability

8678

===========

8678

***********

8679

8680

* Win32 fixes from Steve Brown.

8681

8684

###################################

8685

8686

Enhancements

8687

============

8687

************

8688

8689

* Default ignore list extended (see bzrlib/__init__.py).

8690

8713

#####################

8714

8715

Enhancements

8716

============

8716

************

8717

8718

* More information from info command.

8719

8725

* More useful verbose output from some commands.

8726

8727

Bug Fixes

8728

=========

8728

*********

8729

8730

* Fix inverted display of 'R' and 'M' during 'commit -v'.

8731

8732

Portability

8733

===========

8733

***********

8734

8735

* Include a subset of ElementTree-1.2.20040618 to make

8736

installation easier.

8743

########################

8744

8745

Enhancements

8746

============

8746

************

8747

8748

* First public release.

8749