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What's New in Bazaar 2.1?
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This document outlines the major improvements in Bazaar 2.1
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vs Bazaar 2.0. As well as summarizing improvements made to
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the core product, it highlights enhancements within the broader
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Bazaar world of potential interest to those upgrading.
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Bazaar 2.1.0 marks the start of our second long-term-stable series.
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This series will be supported with bug fixes for the next 12 months.
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All users are encouraged to upgrade from the 2.0.x stable series.
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Many operations now consume less memory. Several operations are
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also faster including branching, logging merged revisions and
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upgrading from pre-2a to 2a format.
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Several commands have new options. These include:
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Command Option Description
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branch bind Bind to the source location
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commit commit-time Give an explicit commit timestamp
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switch revision Switch to a particular revision
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unshelve keep Apply changes but don't delete them
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unshelve preview Show the diff that would result from
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update revision Update to a particular revision
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Other command improvements include:
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* A :doc:`../user-reference/shelve-help` editor can be defined to provide shelf functionality at
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a granularity finer than per-patch hunk.
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* :doc:`../user-reference/send-help` send now supports the OS X Mail application.
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See the help for the commands above for further details.
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Hooks can now be defined for smart merging of selected file types.
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This enables easier merging of ChangeLogs, Release Notes and other
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file that frequently conflict.
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DWIM revision identifiers
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Revision identifiers can now be given in a *Do-What-I-Mean* style.
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For example, you can now just give a tag (instead of saying ``tag:xxx``)
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or just say ``today`` (instead of saying ``date:today``). Prefixes
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are now only required if the revision spec could be ambiguous.
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Patterns prefixed with ``!`` are exceptions to ignore patterns and
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take precedence over regular ignores. Such exceptions are used to
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specify files that should be versioned which would otherwise be
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ignored. Patterns prefixed with ``!!`` act as regular ignore patterns,
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but have highest precedence, even over the ``!`` exception patterns.
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Smart server home directory support
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``bzr+ssh`` and ``bzr`` paths can now be relative to home directories
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specified in the URL. Paths starting with a path segment of ``~`` are
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relative to the home directory of the user running the server, and paths
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starting with ``~user`` are relative to the home directory of the named
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user. For example, for a user "bob" with a home directory of
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``/home/bob``, these URLs are all equivalent:
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* ``bzr+ssh://bob@host/~/repo``
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* ``bzr+ssh://bob@host/~bob/repo``
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* ``bzr+ssh://bob@host/home/bob/repo``
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If ``bzr serve`` was invoked with a ``--directory`` argument, then no
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home directories outside that directory will be accessible via this
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This is a feature of ``bzr serve``, so pre-2.1 clients will
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automatically benefit from this feature when ``bzr`` on the server is
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Generalized glob support on Windows
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On Windows, glob expansion is now handled in a universal way across
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all commands. In previous versions, it was explicitly handed by just
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a few commands, e.g. ``add``. A side effect of this change is that
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patterns now need to be quoted when passed to the ``ignore`` command,
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e.g. ``bzr ignore *.foo`` now needs to be given as ``bzr ignore "*.foo"``.
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Improved Git and Mercurial interoperability
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Many improvements have been made to the git_ and hg_ plugins.
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With these plugins installed, most Git and Mercurial repositories
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can now be read by standard Bazaar clients. Changes can also
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be written back via the dpush command.
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.. _git: http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/plugins/en/git-plugin.html
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.. _hg: http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/plugins/en/hg-plugin.html
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New plugins are available for constructing larger projects
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from smaller ones. These include:
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* builder_ - construction of a branch using recipes
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* externals_ - Subversion-style external branches
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The builder plugin has been designed to complement the builddeb_
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plugin to streamline Debian source package management. It may also
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be useful for building test images for a QA team or disk images
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.. _builder: http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/plugins/en/builder-plugin.html
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.. _externals: http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/plugins/en/externals-plugin.html
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.. _builddeb: http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/plugins/en/builddeb-plugin.html
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Colocated branch workspaces
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A colocated workspace is one where a single working tree is used
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across one or more branches managed at that same location. This
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is now supported by the new colo_ plugin and by Bazaar Explorer.
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.. _colo: http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/plugins/en/colo-plugin.html
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A :doc:`../admin-guide/index` covering topics such as setting up servers,
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security, backups and email integration has been added.
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A large number of documentation bugs have been fixed, clarifying
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numerous issues and filling in some missing holes.
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The :doc:`../user-reference/index`
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has been organized into topics making it easier to
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navigate through and print selected sections of.
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To assist users migrating from other tools, a
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`Survival Guide <http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/migration/en/survival/index.html>`_
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has been published explaining Bazaar to users of other tools in terms they
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already know. Sections are provided for existing users of
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CVS, Subversion, ClearCase, Perforce, Visual SourceSafe, Git, Mercurial,
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Selected documents have also been translated to Japanese.
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Numerous enhancements have been made to most of our GUIs including
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Bazaar Explorer, TortoiseBZR and the QBzr-Eclipse add-on. These
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applications all build on top of improvements made to QBzr. Bzr-gtk
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has also been improved.
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Bazaar Explorer has over a dozen new features including smart toolbars,
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support for all bzr commands (including those in plugins),
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a better working tree browser and a submit delta report showing the
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cumulative effect of a series of commits.
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See `What's New in Bazaar Explorer 1.0?
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<http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/explorer/en/whats-new/whats-new-in-1.0.html>`_
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for more information.
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For more detailed information on the changes made, be sure to check
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the :doc:`../release-notes/index` for:
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* the interim bzr `milestones <https://launchpad.net/bzr/2.1>`_
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* the plugins you use.
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