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:2.3b1: NOT RELEASED YET
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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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* `decode` parameter to get() method in FtpTransport and GioTransport classes
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is deprecated. (Alexander Belchenko)
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* `FileInWrongBranch` is deprecated in favour of `PathNotChild` and no
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* `tree_files` and `internal_tree_files` are now deprecated in favor of
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`WorkingTree.open_containing_paths`.
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* `ControlDirFormat` and `ControlDir` have been split out of `BzrDirFormat`
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and `BzrDir`, respectively. `ControlDirFormat`
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and `ControlDir` should be used as the base classes for new non-.bzr
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`BzrDirFormat.register_control_format` has been renamed to
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`ControlDirFormat.register_format`.
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`BzrDirFormat.register_server_control_format` has been removed.
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Probing for control directories is now done by separate objects derived
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from `bzrlib.controldir.Prober` and registered using
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`bzrlib.controldir.ControlDirFormat.register_prober` or
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`bzrlib.controldir.ControlDirFormat.register_server_prober`.
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`BzrDirFormat.probe_transport` has been moved onto `Prober`.
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`BzrDirFormat.register_format` has been renamed to
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`BzrProber.register_bzrdir_format`.
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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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* ``bzr break-lock --config [location]`` can now break config files
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locks. (Vincent Ladeuil, #525571)
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* ``bzrlib.config.LockableConfig`` is a base class for config files that
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needs to be protected against multiple writers. All methods that
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change a configuration variable value must be decorated with
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@needs_write_lock (set_option() for example).
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #525571)
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* The ``lp:`` prefix will now use your known username (from
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``bzr launchpad-login``) to expand ``~`` to your username. For example:
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``bzr launchpad-login user && bzr push lp:~/project/branch`` will now
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push to ``lp:~user/project/branch``. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* Allow using both --using and --diff-options.
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(Matthäus G. Chajdas, #234708)
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* ``bzr add SYMLINK/FILE`` now works properly when the symlink points to a
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previously-unversioned directory within the tree: the directory is
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(Martin Pool, #192859)
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* ``bzr ignore PATTERNS`` exits with error if a bad pattern is supplied.
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``InvalidPattern`` exception error message now shows faulting
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(Parth Malwankar #300062)
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* ``clean-tree`` issues a warning if it is unable to delete a file
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due to ``errno.EACCES`` instead of exiting with an error on Windows.
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(Parth Malwankar, #430785)
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* CommitBuilder now uses the committer instead of _config.username to generate
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the revision-id. (Aaron Bentley, #614404)
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* Configuration files in ``${BZR_HOME}`` are now protected against
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concurrent writers by using a lock. (Vincent Ladeuil, #525571)
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* Cope with Microsoft FTP Server and VSFTPd that return reply '250
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Directory created' when mkdir succeeds. (Martin Pool, #224373)
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* Decrease peak memory during ``bzr send``. The old code was caching all
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text content and all inventory strings for all revisions before
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computing the diffs. Now we only cache as long as there is a child that
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will need them. Sending 2000 bzr revisions drops from 1.2GB peak to
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256MB peak. (John Arbash Meinel, #614576)
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* Don't print internal object name when print an invalid revision spec
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error. (Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #598701)
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* ``EPIPE`` can be raised during test server shutdown. This happened on
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gentoo only so far. (Vincent Ladeuil, #627277)
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* Errors occurring during http(s) test server starts should now be
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handled cleanly. (Vincent Ladeuil, #392402)
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* Fix ``AttributeError on parent.children`` when adding a file under a
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directory that was a symlink in the previous commit.
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(Martin Pool, #192859)
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* Fix spurious paramiko warning on hardy by ensuring that ``selftest``
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properly remove its warning filter. (Vincent Ladeuil, #625686)
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* ``HTTP/1.1`` test servers now set a ``Content-Length`` header to comply
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with pedantic ``HTTP/1.1`` clients. (Vincent Ladeuil, #568421)
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* Most of the leaked threads during selftest are now fixed, allowing the
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full test suite to pass on gentoo.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #392127)
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* `PathNotChild` should not give a traceback.
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(Martin Pool, #98735)
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* ``PQM`` will no longer ignore syntax errors in submissions.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #626667)
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* Prevent ``CHKMap.apply_delta`` from generating non-canonical CHK maps,
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which can result in "missing referenced chk root keys" errors when
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fetching from repositories with affected revisions.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #522637)
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* ``Transport.stat`` on a symlink, including a transport pointing directly
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to a symlink, now returns information about the symlink.
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* ``bzr remove`` now just backs up changed files instead of exiting,
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forcing you to choose to either keep or delete them. Bazaar will now delete
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the files if they can easily be recovered using revert, otherwise they
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will be backed up (adding an extention of the form .~#~).
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(Marius Kruger, #400554)
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* ``bzr revert`` and ``bzr status`` are up to 15% faster on large trees
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with many changes by not repeatedly building a list of all file-ids.
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* Decrease memory consumption when many chk index pages are loaded. (Such
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as during ``bzr co`` or ``bzr ls -R`` of a large tree.) Often we need to
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read many chk pages because the individual chk map nodes will be spread
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randomly. Peak memory for 'bzr ls -R' on a large tree dropped from 396MB
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down to 247MB, expect even more significant savings on 64-bit platforms.
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* ``DirState`` internals use a little bit less memory. For bzr.dev it
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drops the memory from 1MB down to about 800kB. And replaces a few
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thousand tuples and sets with StaticTuple. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* Inventory entries now consume less memory (on 32-bit Ubuntu file entries
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have dropped from 68 bytes to 40, and directory entries from 120 bytes
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to 48). (Andrew Bennetts)
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* When building new working trees, default to reading from the repository
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rather than the source tree unless explicitly requested. (via
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``--files-from`` and ``--hardlink`` for ``bzr branch`` and
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``bzr checkout``. Generally, 2a format repositories extract
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content faster than seeking and reading content from another tree,
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especially in cold-cache situations. (John Arbash Meinel, #607298)
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* Added a builder/writer sphinx extension that can generate texinfo files. The
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generated files are syntactically correct but the info navigation nodes
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needs more work. (Vincent Ladeuil, #219334)
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* First tests defined for sphinx, including a new bzrlib.tests.features.sphinx
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to make the tests conditional.
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* Fix a lot of references in the docs to the old http://bazaar-vcs.org to
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the new http://bazaar.canonical.com or http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com
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(John Arbash Meinel, #617503)
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* Configuration files should now use the ``from_string`` constructor rather
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than the ``file`` parameter of the ``_get_parser`` method. The later has
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been deprecated. ``from_string`` also accept a ``save=True`` parameter to
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have the configuration file immediately written to disk.
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* ``IniBaseConfig`` objects should now use the ``from_string`` constructor
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the rather than the ``file`` parameter of the ``_get_parser`` method. The
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later has been deprecated. (Vincent Ladeuil)
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* InventoryEntry instances now raise AttributeError if you try to assign
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to attributes that are irrelevant to that kind of entry. e.g. setting
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``symlink_target`` on an InventoryFile will fail. It is still okay to
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read those attributes on any kind of InventoryEntry. The complete list
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of affected attributes is: ``executable``, ``text_id``, ``text_sha1``,
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``text_size`` (only valid for kind == file); ``symlink_target`` (only
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valid for kind == link); and ``reference_revision`` (only valid for kind
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== tree-reference). (Andrew Bennetts)
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* InventoryEntry objects no longer have ``_put_in_tar`` or
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``_put_on_disk`` methods. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* The ``get_filename`` parameter in the ``config.IniBaseConfig``
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constructor has been deprecated, use the ``file_name`` parameter instead.
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* Remove used and broken code path in ``BranchInitHookParams.__repr__``.
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* HTTP test servers will leak less threads (and sockets) and will not hang on
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AIX anymore. (Vincent Ladeuil, #405745)
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* The way ``bzr selftest --parallel`` generates N partitions of tests to
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run in parallel has changed. Instead of splitting the list of tests at
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N-1 points, it distributes the tests one-by-one into the partitions in a
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round robin fashion. This reduces the total time to run the tests in
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parallel because a series of slow tests in the test suite will be
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distributed evenly among the parallel test suites, rather than slowing
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down just one suite. (Andrew Bennetts)
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:2.2.1: NOT RELEASED YET
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* ``bzr add SYMLINK/FILE`` now works properly when the symlink points to a
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previously-unversioned directory within the tree: the directory is
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marked versioned too.
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(Martin Pool, #192859)
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* CommitBuilder now uses the committer instead of _config.username to generate
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the revision-id. (Aaron Bentley, #614404)
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* Cope with Microsoft FTP server that returns reply '250 Directory
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created' when mkdir succeeds. (Martin Pool, #224373)
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* Fix ``AttributeError on parent.children`` when adding a file under a
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directory that was a symlink in the previous commit.
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(Martin Pool, #192859)
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* Fix a lot of references in the docs to the old http://bazaar-vcs.org to
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the new http://bazaar.canonical.com or http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com
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(John Arbash Meinel, #617503)
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* Remove used and broken code path in ``BranchInitHookParams.__repr__``.
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This release marks the start of another long-term-stable series. From
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here, we will only make bugfix releases on the 2.2 series (2.2.1, etc),
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while 2.3 will become our new development series. The 2.0 and 2.1 series
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will also continue to get bugfixes. (Currently 2.0 is planned to be
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supported for another 6 months.)
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This is primarily a bugfix and polish release over the 2.1 series, with
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a large number of bugs fixed (>120), and some performance improvements.
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There are some compatibility changes in this release. For users of bzrlib
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as a library, we now request that they call ``bzrlib.initialize`` and use
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the returned context manager appropriately. For commandline users we no
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longer guess user identity for ``bzr commit``, users must specify their
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identity using ``bzr whoami`` (you don't need to specify your identity for
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readonly operations).
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Users are encouraged to upgrade from the other stable series.
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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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* ``bzr ignore PATTERNS`` exits with error if a bad pattern is supplied.
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``InvalidPattern`` exception error message now shows faulting
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(Parth Malwankar #300062)
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* Configuration files in ``${BZR_HOME}`` are now written in an atomic
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way which should help avoid problems with concurrent writers.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #525571)
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* Don't traceback trying to unversion children files of an already
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unversioned directory. (Vincent Ladeuil, #494221)
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* ``HTTP/1.1`` test servers now set a ``Content-Length`` header to comply
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with pedantic ``HTTP/1.1`` clients. (Vincent Ladeuil, #568421)
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* Progress bars prefer to truncate the text message rather than the
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counters. The spinner is shown between the network transfer indicator
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and the progress message. Progress bars are correctly cleared off when
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they finish. (Martin Pool, #611127)
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* Recursive binding for checkouts is now detected by bzr. A clear error
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message is shown to the user. (Parth Malwankar, #405192)
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* Add ``bzrlib.merge.MergeIntoMerger``, which can merge part or all of a
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tree, and works with unrelated branches. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* Add py2exe windows target ``bzrw.exe``. This allow for starting a Bazaar
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GUI with out have a console open in the background.
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(Gary van der Merwe, #433781)
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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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* Delete ``ProgressTask.note``, which was deprecated in 2.1.
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* Unit test added to ensure that "message" is not uses as a format variable
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name in BzrError subclasses as this conflicts with some Python versions.
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(Parth Malwankar, #603461)
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:Codename: Monkey Magic
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This fourth and final beta in the 2.2 series now stabilizes the internal
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APIs. Plugin authors are recommended to ensure their releases are
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compatible, so that 2.2rc1 can be a true release candidate, containing
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stable and compatible plugin versions.
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For users of bzrlib as a library, one of the primary changes is to request
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that they call ``bzrlib.initialize`` and use the returned context manager
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Better interaction with ``bzr-loom`` to make sure branching from a loom
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even over a smart server still yields a local loom. Not to mention lots of
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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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* Support ``--directory`` option for a number of additional commands:
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conflicts, merge-directive, missing, resolve, shelve, switch,
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unshelve, whoami. (Martin von Gagern, #527878)
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* ``bzr branch`` to a new repository with a default stacking policy no
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longer transfers the full history unnecessarily.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #597942)
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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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* ``bzr log --exclude-common-ancestry`` is now taken into account for
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linear ancetries. (Vincent Ladeuil, #575631)
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* ``bzr log -r branch:REMOTE`` can now properly log the remote branch,
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rather than trying to fetch the data locally and failing because of a
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readonly error. (Martin von Gagern, #149270)
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* ``bzr pull`` now works when a lp: URL is explicitly defined as the parent
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or pull location in locations.conf or branch.conf.
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(Gordon Tyler, #534787)
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* ``bzr reconfigure --unstacked`` now works with branches accessed via a
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smart server. (Andrew Bennetts, #551525)
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* ``BzrDir.find_branches`` should ignore branches with missing repositories.
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(Marius Kruger, Robert Collins)
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* ``BzrDir.find_bzrdirs`` should ignore dirs that raises PermissionDenied.
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(Marius Kruger, Robert Collins)
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* Ensure that wrong path specifications in ``BZR_PLUGINS_AT`` display
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proper error messages. (Vincent Ladeuil, #591215)
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* Explicitly removing ``--profile-imports`` option from parsed command-line
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arguments on Windows, because bzr script does the same.
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(Alexander Belchenko, #588277)
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* Fetching was slightly confused about the best code to use and was
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using a new code path for all branches, resulting in more lookups than
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necessary on old branches. (Robert Collins, #593515)
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* Final fix for 'no help for command' issue. We now show a clean message
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when a command has no help, document how to set help more clearly, and
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test that all commands available to the test suite have help.
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(Robert Collins, #177500)
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* Invalid patterns supplied to ``Globster`` or ``lazy_regex`` now raise
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``InvalidPattern`` exception showing clear error message to the user.
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(Parth Malwankar #300062)
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* Progress output is cleaned up when exiting. (Aaron Bentley)
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* Raise ValueError instead of a string exception.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #586926)
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* Relative imports in plugins are now handled correctly when using
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BZR_PLUGINS_AT. (Vincent Ladeuil, #588959)
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* ``ScriptRunner`` now strips off leading indentation from test scripts,
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which previously caused "SyntaxError: No command for line".
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* Show unicode filenames in diff headers using terminal encoding.
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(Alexander Belchenko, Bug #382699)
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NOTE for Windows users: If user need to save diff to file then user need to
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change encoding of the terminal to ANSI encoding with command ``chcp XXX``
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(e.g. ``chcp 1251`` for Russian Windows).
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* URL displayed for use with ``break-lock`` when smart server sees lock
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contention are now valid. Default timeout for lock contention retry is
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now 30 seconds instead of 300 seconds.
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(Parth Malwankar, #250451)
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* ``walkdirs`` now raises a useful message when the filenames are not using
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the filesystem encoding. (Eric Moritz, #488519)
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* Enable debugging of bzr on windows with pdb and other tools. This was
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broken because we call GetCommandLineW on windows. The fix adjusts the
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command line we get to be the same length as sys.argv.
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(Jason Spashett, Alexander Belchenko, #587868)
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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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* ``Branch.copy_content_into`` is now a convenience method dispatching to
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a ``InterBranch`` multi-method. This permits ``bzr-loom`` and other
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plugins to intercept this even when a ``RemoteBranch`` proxy is in use.
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(Robert Collins, #201613)
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* ``Branch`` formats can now be loaded lazily by registering a
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``MetaDirBranchFormatFactory`` rather than an actual format. This will
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cause the named format class to be loaded only when an enumeration of
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formats is needed or when the format string for the object is
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encountered. (Robert Collins, Jelmer Vernooij)
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* The encoding that bzr uses to output things other than file content can
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now be overridden via the output_encoding configuration option.
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(Martin Pool, #340394)
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* Use lazy imports in ``bzrlib/merge.py`` so that plugins like ``news_merge``
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do not cause modules to be loaded unnecessarily just because the plugin
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registers a merge hook. This improves ``bzr rocks`` time by about 25%
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in a default installation (with just the core plugins).
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* Added ``regression`` tag to our tags list. (Robert Collins)
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* Improved our release checklist to have a bit less churn and leave things
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ready-to-go for the next action (including other people doing
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development). (Robert Collins)
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* Remove obsolete discussion of PQM in documentation about how to
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contribute to Bazaar. (Martin Pool, #588444)
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* ``bzrlib.branch.InterBranch._get_branch_formats_to_test`` now returns
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an iterable of format pairs, rather than just a single pair, permitting
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InterBranch objects that work with multiple permutations to be
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comprehensively tested. (Robert Collins)
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* ``bzrlib.lsprof.profile`` will no longer silently generate bad threaded
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profiles when concurrent profile requests are made. Instead the profile
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requests will be serialised. Reentrant requests will now deadlock.
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* ``bzrlib.knit.KnitSequenceMatcher``, which has been deprecated since
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2007, has been deleted. Use ``PatienceSequenceMatcher`` from
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``bzrlib.patiencediff`` instead. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* ``bzrlib.re_compile_checked`` is now deprecated. Caller should handle
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``bzrlib.errors.InvalidPattern`` exception thrown by ``re.match`` in
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case the default error message not suitable for the use case.
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* ``bzrlib.tests.blackbox.ExternalBase`` is deprecated. It provided only
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one method ``check_output``, and we now recommend checking command
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output using ``run_script``. (Martin Pool)
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* ``bzrlib.transport.ssh.SSHVendor.connect_ssh`` now returns an object
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that implements the interface of ``bzrlib.transport.ssh.SSHConnection``.
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Third-party implementations of ``SSHVendor`` may need to be updated
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accordingly. Similarly, any code using ``SSHConnection`` directly will
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need to be updated. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* The constructor of ``bzrilb.smart.medium.SmartSSHClientMedium`` has
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changed to take an ``SSHParams`` instance (replacing many individual
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values). (Andrew Bennetts)
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* ``bzrlib.osutils.get_terminal_encoding`` will now only mutter its
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selection when explicitly requested; this avoids many duplicate calls
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being logged when helpers, wrappers and older code that manually calls
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it are executed it is now logged deliberately by the ui setup code.
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* Improved ``bzrlib.urlutils`` to handle lp:foo/bar URLs. (Gordon Tyler)
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* ``bzrlib._c_static_tuple.StaticTuple`` now implements ``__sizeof__``, so
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that ``sys.getsizeof`` and other memory analysis tools will report more
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accurate results. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* The symbol_versioning module can now cleanup after itself -
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``suppress_deprecation_warnings`` now returns a cleanup function.
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* Add ``bzrlib.tests.fixtures`` to hold code for setting up objects
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to test. (Martin Pool)
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* ``test_import_tariff`` now respects BZR_PLUGINS_AT and BZR_PLUGINS_DISABLE.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #595587)
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This third beta in the 2.2 series brings with it all the goodness of 2.1.2
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and 2.0.6 (though it preceeds 2.0.6 slightly). Of particular note for
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users are compatibility fixes with bzr 1.5 and below servers, a hopeful
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end to the EINTR errors caused by SIGWINCH interactions, a shiny new
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bash completion script and bzr will no longer guess at identity details -
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it was too unreliable in reality. Use ``bzr whoami`` on every new install.
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For developers we have some API changes which may impact plugins as well
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as a bunch of our regular improvements to internal clarity and test
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* An API break has been made to the lock_write method of ``Branch`` and
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``Repository`` objects; they now return ``branch.BranchWriteLockResult``
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and ``repository.RepositoryWriteLockResult`` objects. This makes
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changing the API in future easier and permits some cleaner calling code.
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The lock_read method has also changed from having no defined return
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value to returning ``LogicalLockResult`` objects.
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* ``bzr`` does not try to guess the username as ``username@hostname``
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and requires it to be explictly set. This can be set using ``bzr
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whoami``. (Parth Malwankar, #549310)
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* ``bzrlib.commands.Command`` will now raise ValueError during
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construction if there is no __doc__ set. (Note, this will be reverted in
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2.2b4) (Robert Collins)
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* The source tree no longer contains a contrib/zsh/_bzr completion
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script. The new file contrib/zsh/README suggests alternatives.
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(Martin von Gagern, #560030)
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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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* Support ``--directory`` option for a number of additional commands:
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added, annotate, bind, cat, cat-revision, clean-tree, deleted,
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export, ignore, ignored, lookup-revision, ls, modified, nick,
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re-sign, unbind, unknowns.
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(Martin von Gagern, #527878)
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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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* Alias information shown by ``bzr help`` is now accurate. This
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was showing an internal object name for some plugin aliases.
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(Parth Malwankar, #584650)
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* ``.bazaar``, ``.bazaar/bazaar.conf`` and ``.bzr.log`` inherit user and
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group ownership from the containing directory. This allow bzr to work
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(Martin <gzlist@googlemail.com>, Parth Malwankar, #376388)
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* ``bzr clean-tree`` should not delete nested bzrdirs. Required for proper
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support of bzr-externals and scmproj plugins.
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(Alexander Belchenko, bug #572098)
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* ``bzr ignore`` will no longer add duplicate patterns to .bzrignore.
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(Gordon Tyler, #572092)
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* ``bzr log --exclude-common-ancestry -r X..Y`` displays the revisions that
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are part of Y ancestry but not part of X ancestry (aka the graph
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #320119)
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* ``bzr lp-propose`` which was switched to use production Launchpad API
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servers a few commits ago has been reverted to use edge: there is a
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problem with using production which isn't trivially obvious, so we've
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filed a bug to track it, and until thats fixed will be using edge.
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(Robert Collins, #583667)
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* ``bzr rm`` should not refuse to delete directories which contained a file
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which has been moved elsewhere in the tree after the previous commit.
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(Marius Kruger, Daniel Watkins, #129880)
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* ``bzr selftest --parallel=fork`` wait for its children avoiding zombies.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #566670)
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* ``bzr selftest`` should not use ui.note() since it's not unicode safe.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #563997)
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* CommitBuilder refuses to create revisions whose trees have no root.
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* Do not register a SIGWINCH signal handler, instead just poll for the
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terminal width as needed. This avoids the "Interrupted System Call"
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problems that occur on POSIX with all currently released versions of
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(Andrew Bennetts, #583941)
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* Don't mention --no-strict when we just issue the warning about unclean trees.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #401599)
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* Fixed ``AssertionError`` when accessing smart servers running Bazaar
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(Andrew Bennetts, #528041)
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* Improved progress bar for fetch (2a format only). Bazaar now shows an
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estimate of the number of records to be fetched vs actually fetched.
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(Parth Malwankar, #374740, #538868)
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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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* ``RemoteBranch.lock_write`` raises ``ReadOnlyError`` if called during a
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read lock, rather than causing an ``AttributeError``.
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(Andrew Bennetts, Данило Шеган, #582781)
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* Selftest was failing with testtools 0.9.3, which caused an
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AssertionError raised from a cleanUp to be reported as a Failure, not an
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Error, breaking on of our test hygiene tests.
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(Robert Collins, Vincent Ladeuil).
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* ``set_user_option`` with a dict on remote branches no longer fails with
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an AttributeError. There is a new ``Branch.set_config_option_dict`` RPC
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to support this efficiently.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #430382)
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* Show the filenames when a file rename fails so that the error will be
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(Martin Pool, #491763)
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* Support Pyrex 0.9.9, required changing how we handle exceptions in Pyrex.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #582656)
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* Unicode characters in aliases are now handled correctly and do not cause
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UnicodeEncodeError exception. (Parth Malwankar, #529930)
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* Unicode commit messages that are the same as a file name no longer cause
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UnicodeEncodeError. ``ui.text.show_warning`` now handles unicode
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(Parth Malwankar, #563646)
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* Using bzr with `lp:` urls behind an http proxy should work.
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(Robert Collins, #558343)
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* When passing a file to ``UTF8DirReader`` make sure to close the current
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directory file handle after the chdir fails. Otherwise when passing many
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filenames into a command line ``bzr status`` we would leak descriptors.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #583486)
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* ``append_revisions_only`` will now be interpreted as a boolean and a
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warning emitted if illegal values are used. Note that for projects
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that needs to maintain compatibility with previsous bzr versions,
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only 'True' and 'False' strings must be used (previous versions of
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bzr will interpret all strings differing from 'True'
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(case-sensitive) as false.
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(Brian de Alwis, Vincent Ladeuil)
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* ``bzr ls`` now supports short options for existing long options.
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``-k/--kind``, ``-i/--ignored``, ``-u/--unknown`` and ``-0/--null``.
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(Parth Malwankar, #181124)
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* ``Config.get_user_option_as_bool`` will now warn if a value cannot
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be interpreted as a boolean.
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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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* Added ``bzrlib.merge.PerFileMerger``, a more convenient way to write
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some kinds of ``merge_file_content`` hook functions.
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* `BzrDir`, `Branch`, `Repository` and `WorkingTree` now all support `user_url`,
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`user_transport`, `control_url` and `control_transport` members pointing
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respectively to the directory containing the ``.bzr`` control directory,
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and to the directory within ``.bzr`` used for the particular component.
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All of them inherit from `ControlComponent` which provides default
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* Lock methods on ``Tree``, ``Branch`` and ``Repository`` are now
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expected to return an object which can be used to unlock them. This reduces
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duplicate code when using cleanups. The previous 'tokens's returned by
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``Branch.lock_write`` and ``Repository.lock_write`` are now attributes
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on the result of the lock_write. ``repository.RepositoryWriteLockResult``
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and ``branch.BranchWriteLockResult`` document this. (Robert Collins)
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* ``Repository.refresh_data`` may now be called in a write group on
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pack-based repositories. Older repositories will still raise an error
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in this case. Subclasses of ``Repository`` can still override
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``Repository._refresh_data``, but are now responsible for raising
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``bzrlib.repository.IsInWriteGroupError`` if they do not support
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``refresh_data`` during a write group.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #574236)
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* ``chk_map._bytes_to_text_key`` is now an optimized function to extract
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the (file-id, revision-id) key from a CHKInventory entry. This can
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potentially shave 5-10% time off during a large fetch. Related to bug
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#562666. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* ``log._get_info_for_log_files`` now takes an add_cleanup callable.
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* ``_remember_remote_is_before`` no longer raises AssertionError when
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suboptimal network behaviour is noticed; instead it just mutters to the
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log file (and warns the user if they have set the ``hpss`` debug flag).
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This was causing unnecessary aborts for performance bugs that are minor
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(Andrew Bennetts, #528041)
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* Permit bzr to run under ``python -OO`` which reduces the size of bytecode
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files loaded from disk. To ensure docstrings needed for help are never
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stripped, the prefix ``__doc__ =`` should now be used.
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(Martin <gzlist@googlemail.com>)
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* No longer require zlib headers to build extensions, and remove the need
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for seperate copy of zlib library on windows.
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(John Arbash Meinel, Martin <gzlist@googlemail.com>, #566923)
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* Added ``bzrlib.tests.matchers`` as a place to put matchers, along with
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our first in-tree matcher. See the module docstring for details.
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* ``bzr selftest --parallel=subprocess`` now works correctly on win32.
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(Gordon Tyler, #551332)
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* Workaround ``Crypto.Random`` check leading to spurious test
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failures on Lucid, FreeBSD and gentoo.
885
(Vincent Ladeuil, #528436)
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* New class ``ExecutableFeature`` for checking the availability of
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executables on the ``PATH``. Migrated from bash_completion plugin.
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This is a somewhat early second beta of the 2.2 series, to fix a python2.4
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incompatibility in the 2.2b1 release. It also includes a swag of
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performance, usability and correctness improvements: test feedback on all
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of these would be welcome.
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* ``bzr diff`` now supports a --format option, which can be used to
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select alternative diff formats. (Jelmer Vernooij, #555994)
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* ``bzr dpush``, ``bzr push`` and ``bzr send`` will now issue a warning
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instead of failing when dirty trees are involved. The corresponding
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``dpush_strict``, ``push_strict`` and ``send_strict`` should be set to
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True explicitly to get the previous behaviour.
915
(Vincent Ladeuil, #519319)
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* ``bzr export`` to tar file does not fail if any parent directory
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contains unicode characters. This works around upstream Python bug
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http://bugs.python.org/issue8396 .
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(Parth Malwankar, #413406)
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* ``bzr switch`` does not die if a ConfigurableFileMerger is used.
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(Aaron Bentley, #559436)
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* ``bzr update`` when a pending merge in the working tree has been merged
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into the master branch will no longer claim that old commits have become
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pending merges. (Robert Collins, #562079)
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* ``bzrlib.mutabletree.MutableTree.commit`` will now support a passed in
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config as in previous versions of bzrlib. (Robert Collins)
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* Fix glitch in the warning about unclean trees display.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #562665)
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* Fixed Python2.4 incompatibilities in the bzr2.2b1 source tarball.
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* Help messages generated by ``RegistryOption.from_kwargs`` list the
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switches in alphabetical order, rather than in an undefined order.
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(Martin von Gagern, #559409)
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* Make sure the ``ExecutablePath`` and ``InterpreterPath`` are set in
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Apport crash reports, to avoid "This problem report applies to a program
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which is not installed any more" error.
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(Martin Pool, James Westby, #528114)
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* Reset ``siginterrupt`` flag to False every time we handle a signal
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installed with ``set_signal_handler(..., restart_syscall=True)`` (from
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``bzrlib.osutils``. Reduces the likelihood of "Interrupted System Call"
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errors compared to registering ``signal.signal`` directly.
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* When invoked with a range revision, ``bzr log`` doesn't show revisions
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that are not part of the Y revisions ancestry anymore when invoked with
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #474807)
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* Properly handle ``param_name`` attribute for ``ListOption``.
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(Martin von Gagern, #387117)
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* ``bzr commit`` will prompt before using a commit message that was
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generated by a template and not edited by the user.
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(Robert Collins, #530265)
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* ``bzr diff`` read-locks the trees and branches only once, saving about
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10-20ms on ``bzr diff`` in a bzr.dev tree.
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* ``bzr missing`` read-locks the branches only once.
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* ``bzr pull`` locks the branches and tree only once.
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* Index lookups in pack repositories search recently hit pack files first.
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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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* Less code is loaded at startup. (Cold-cache start time is about 10-20%
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(Martin Pool, #553017)
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* ``bzrlib.diff.get_trees_and_branches_to_diff`` is deprecated. Use
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``get_trees_and_branches_to_diff_locked`` instead.
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* ``TreeTransform.commit`` supports the full set of commit parameters, and
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auto-determines branch nick if not supplied. (Aaron Bentley)
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* ``bzrlib.commands.Command.run_direct`` is no longer needed - the pre
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2.1 method of calling run() to perform testing or direct use via the API
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is now possible again. As part of this, the _operation attribute on
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Command is now transient and only exists for the duration of ``run()``.
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This is the first beta of the 2.2 series, leading up to a 2.2.0
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release in July or August. Beta releases are suitable for everyday use
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but may cause some incompatibilities with plugins. Some plugins may need
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small updates to work with 2.2b1.
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2.2b1 includes some changes to make merge conflicts easier to understand
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and resolve. It also removes some old unnecessary code, and loads
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somewhat less code at startup. It starts adding a common infrastructure
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for dealing with colocated named branches, which can be implemented in
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various ways in either bzr native or foreign formats. On Ubuntu and
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other platforms with the apport bug-reporting library, there's an easier
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path to report problems with bzr. We plan to continue with these themes
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through the 2.2 series.
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Over thirty bugs have been fixed, including in the log command, exporting
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to tarballs, restarting interrupted system calls, portability of compiled
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extensions, making backups during upgrade, and locking on ftp.
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