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:2.2.2: NOT RELEASED YET
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* ``bzr resolve --take-other <file>`` will not crash anymore if ``<file>``
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is involved in a text conflict (but the conflict is still not
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resolved). (Vincent Ladeuil, #646961)
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* Commit in a bound branch or heavyweight checkout now propagates tags
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(e.g. from a merge) to the master branch (and informs the user if there
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is a conflict). (Andrew Bennetts, #603395)
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* Correctly set the Content-Type header when http POSTing to comply
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with stricter web frameworks. (Vincent Ladeuil, #655100)
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* ``NotBranchError`` no longer allows errors from calling
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``bzrdir.open_repository()`` to propagate. This is unhelpful at best,
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and at worst can trigger infinite loops in callers. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* Skip tests that needs a bzr source tree when there isn't one. This is
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needed to succesfully run the test suite for installed versions.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #644855).
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* Skip the tests that requires respecting the chmod bits when running as
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root. Including the one that wasn't present in 2.1.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #646133)
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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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* Windows installers no longer requires the Microsoft vcredist to be
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(Martin [gz], Gary van der Merwe, #632465)
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* Add ``tests/ssl_certs/ca.crt`` to the required test files list. Test
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involving the pycurl https test server fail otherwise when running
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selftest from an installed version. (Vincent Ladeuil, #651706)
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* Fix tests that failed when run under ``LANG=C``.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #632387)
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This is a bugfix release which also includes bugfixes from 2.0.6 and
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2.1.3. None are critical, but upgrading is recommended for all users on
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* Additional merges after an unrelated branch has been merged with its
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history no longer crash when deleted files are involved.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, John Arbash Meinel, #375898)
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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 commit SYMLINK`` now works, rather than trying to commit the
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target of the symlink.
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(Martin Pool, John Arbash Meinel, #128562)
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* ``bzr upgrade`` now creates the ``backup.bzr`` directory with the same
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permissions as ``.bzr`` directory on a POSIX OS.
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(Parth Malwankar, #262450)
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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 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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* 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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* Don't traceback trying to unversion children files of an already
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unversioned directory. (Vincent Ladeuil, #494221)
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* Don't traceback when a lockdir's ``held/info`` file is corrupt (e.g.
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contains only NUL bytes). Instead warn the user, and allow ``bzr
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break-lock`` to remove it. (Andrew Bennetts, #619872)
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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 ``AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'close'`` in
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``_close_ssh_proc`` when using ``bzr+ssh://``. This was causing
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connections to pre-1.6 bzr+ssh servers to fail, and causing warnings on
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stderr in some other circumstances. (Andrew Bennetts, #633745)
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* Only call ``setlocale`` in the bzr startup script on posix systems. This
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avoids an issue with the newer windows C runtimes used by Python 2.6 and
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later which can mangle bytestrings printed to the console.
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(Martin [gz], #631350)
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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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* Raise ValueError instead of a string exception.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #586926)
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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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* Repositories accessed via a smart server now reject being stacked on a
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repository in an incompatible format, as is the case when accessing them
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via other methods. This was causing fetches from those repositories via
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a smart server (e.g. using ``bzr branch``) to receive invalid data.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #562380)
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* Selftest with versions of subunit that support ``stopTestRun`` will no longer
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error. This error was caused by 2.0 not being updated when upstream
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python merged the end of run patch, which chose ``stopTestRun`` rather than
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``done``. (Robert Collins, #571437)
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* Stop ``AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'ElementTree'``
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being thrown from ``xml_serializer`` on certain cElementTree setups.
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(Martin [gz], #254278)
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* Upgrading or fetching from a non-rich-root repository to a rich-root
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repository (e.g. from pack-0.92 to 2a) no longer fails with
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``'Inter1and2Helper' object has no attribute 'source_repo'``. This was
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a regression from Bazaar 2.1. (Andrew Bennetts, #636930)
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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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* 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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* ``build_tree_contents`` can create symlinks.
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(Martin Pool, John Arbash Meinel)
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* Tracebacks from a parameterized test are no longer reported against every
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parameterization of that test. This was done by adding a hack to
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``bzrlib.tests.clone_test`` so that it no longer causes
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testtools.TestCase instances to share a details dict.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #625574)
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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
444
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
483
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
489
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
501
being logged when helpers, wrappers and older code that manually calls
502
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
509
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)
530
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)
566
* ``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
571
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
576
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)
584
* 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
592
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
596
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
614
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
645
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
648
(Andrew Bennetts, #583941)
650
* 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, Danilo Segan, #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
691
(Parth Malwankar, #563646)
693
* When passing a file to ``UTF8DirReader`` make sure to close the current
694
directory file handle after the chdir fails. Otherwise when passing many
695
filenames into a command line ``bzr status`` we would leak descriptors.
696
(John Arbash Meinel, #583486)
701
* ``append_revisions_only`` will now be interpreted as a boolean and a
702
warning emitted if illegal values are used. Note that for projects
703
that needs to maintain compatibility with previsous bzr versions,
704
only 'True' and 'False' strings must be used (previous versions of
705
bzr will interpret all strings differing from 'True'
706
(case-sensitive) as false.
707
(Brian de Alwis, Vincent Ladeuil)
709
* ``bzr ls`` now supports short options for existing long options.
710
``-k/--kind``, ``-i/--ignored``, ``-u/--unknown`` and ``-0/--null``.
711
(Parth Malwankar, #181124)
713
* ``Config.get_user_option_as_bool`` will now warn if a value cannot
714
be interpreted as a boolean.
717
* The all-in-one Windows installer will now be built with docstrings stripped
718
from the library zip, reducing the size and slightly improving cold startup
719
time. Bundled plugins are unchanged for the moment, but if adding other new
720
plugins to an all-in-one installation, ensure they are compiled and
721
installed with -O1 or help may not work. (Martin [gz])
726
* Added ``bzrlib.merge.PerFileMerger``, a more convenient way to write
727
some kinds of ``merge_file_content`` hook functions.
730
* `BzrDir`, `Branch`, `Repository` and `WorkingTree` now all support `user_url`,
731
`user_transport`, `control_url` and `control_transport` members pointing
732
respectively to the directory containing the ``.bzr`` control directory,
733
and to the directory within ``.bzr`` used for the particular component.
734
All of them inherit from `ControlComponent` which provides default
738
* Lock methods on ``Tree``, ``Branch`` and ``Repository`` are now
739
expected to return an object which can be used to unlock them. This reduces
740
duplicate code when using cleanups. The previous 'tokens's returned by
741
``Branch.lock_write`` and ``Repository.lock_write`` are now attributes
742
on the result of the lock_write. ``repository.RepositoryWriteLockResult``
743
and ``branch.BranchWriteLockResult`` document this. (Robert Collins)
745
* ``Repository.refresh_data`` may now be called in a write group on
746
pack-based repositories. Older repositories will still raise an error
747
in this case. Subclasses of ``Repository`` can still override
748
``Repository._refresh_data``, but are now responsible for raising
749
``bzrlib.repository.IsInWriteGroupError`` if they do not support
750
``refresh_data`` during a write group.
751
(Andrew Bennetts, #574236)
756
* ``chk_map._bytes_to_text_key`` is now an optimized function to extract
757
the (file-id, revision-id) key from a CHKInventory entry. This can
758
potentially shave 5-10% time off during a large fetch. Related to bug
759
#562666. (John Arbash Meinel)
761
* ``log._get_info_for_log_files`` now takes an add_cleanup callable.
764
* ``_remember_remote_is_before`` no longer raises AssertionError when
765
suboptimal network behaviour is noticed; instead it just mutters to the
766
log file (and warns the user if they have set the ``hpss`` debug flag).
767
This was causing unnecessary aborts for performance bugs that are minor
769
(Andrew Bennetts, #528041)
771
* Permit bzr to run under ``python -OO`` which reduces the size of bytecode
772
files loaded from disk. To ensure docstrings needed for help are never
773
stripped, the prefix ``__doc__ =`` should now be used.
774
(Martin <gzlist@googlemail.com>)
776
* No longer require zlib headers to build extensions, and remove the need
777
for seperate copy of zlib library on windows.
778
(John Arbash Meinel, Martin <gzlist@googlemail.com>, #566923)
783
* Added ``bzrlib.tests.matchers`` as a place to put matchers, along with
784
our first in-tree matcher. See the module docstring for details.
787
* ``bzr selftest --parallel=subprocess`` now works correctly on win32.
788
(Gordon Tyler, #551332)
790
* Workaround ``Crypto.Random`` check leading to spurious test
791
failures on Lucid, FreeBSD and gentoo.
792
(Vincent Ladeuil, #528436)
794
* New class ``ExecutableFeature`` for checking the availability of
795
executables on the ``PATH``. Migrated from bash_completion plugin.
804
This is a somewhat early second beta of the 2.2 series, to fix a python2.4
805
incompatibility in the 2.2b1 release. It also includes a swag of
806
performance, usability and correctness improvements: test feedback on all
807
of these would be welcome.
813
* ``bzr diff`` now supports a --format option, which can be used to
814
select alternative diff formats. (Jelmer Vernooij, #555994)
819
* ``bzr dpush``, ``bzr push`` and ``bzr send`` will now issue a warning
820
instead of failing when dirty trees are involved. The corresponding
821
``dpush_strict``, ``push_strict`` and ``send_strict`` should be set to
822
True explicitly to get the previous behaviour.
823
(Vincent Ladeuil, #519319)
825
* ``bzr export`` to tar file does not fail if any parent directory
826
contains unicode characters. This works around upstream Python bug
827
http://bugs.python.org/issue8396 .
828
(Parth Malwankar, #413406)
830
* ``bzr switch`` does not die if a ConfigurableFileMerger is used.
831
(Aaron Bentley, #559436)
833
* ``bzr update`` when a pending merge in the working tree has been merged
834
into the master branch will no longer claim that old commits have become
835
pending merges. (Robert Collins, #562079)
837
* ``bzrlib.mutabletree.MutableTree.commit`` will now support a passed in
838
config as in previous versions of bzrlib. (Robert Collins)
840
* Fix glitch in the warning about unclean trees display.
841
(Vincent Ladeuil, #562665)
843
* Fixed Python2.4 incompatibilities in the bzr2.2b1 source tarball.
846
* Help messages generated by ``RegistryOption.from_kwargs`` list the
847
switches in alphabetical order, rather than in an undefined order.
848
(Martin von Gagern, #559409)
850
* Make sure the ``ExecutablePath`` and ``InterpreterPath`` are set in
851
Apport crash reports, to avoid "This problem report applies to a program
852
which is not installed any more" error.
853
(Martin Pool, James Westby, #528114)
855
* Reset ``siginterrupt`` flag to False every time we handle a signal
856
installed with ``set_signal_handler(..., restart_syscall=True)`` (from
857
``bzrlib.osutils``. Reduces the likelihood of "Interrupted System Call"
858
errors compared to registering ``signal.signal`` directly.
861
* When invoked with a range revision, ``bzr log`` doesn't show revisions
862
that are not part of the Y revisions ancestry anymore when invoked with
864
(Vincent Ladeuil, #474807)
866
* Properly handle ``param_name`` attribute for ``ListOption``.
867
(Martin von Gagern, #387117)
872
* ``bzr commit`` will prompt before using a commit message that was
873
generated by a template and not edited by the user.
874
(Robert Collins, #530265)
876
* ``bzr diff`` read-locks the trees and branches only once, saving about
877
10-20ms on ``bzr diff`` in a bzr.dev tree.
880
* ``bzr missing`` read-locks the branches only once.
883
* ``bzr pull`` locks the branches and tree only once.
886
* Index lookups in pack repositories search recently hit pack files first.
887
In repositories with many pack files this can greatly reduce the
888
number of files accessed, the number of bytes read, and the number of
889
read calls. An incremental pull via plain HTTP takes half the time and
890
bytes for a moderately large repository. (Andrew Bennetts)
892
* Index lookups only re-order the indexes when the hit files aren't
893
already first. Reduces the cost of reordering
894
(John Arbash Meinel, #562429)
896
* Less code is loaded at startup. (Cold-cache start time is about 10-20%
898
(Martin Pool, #553017)
903
* ``bzrlib.diff.get_trees_and_branches_to_diff`` is deprecated. Use
904
``get_trees_and_branches_to_diff_locked`` instead.
907
* ``TreeTransform.commit`` supports the full set of commit parameters, and
908
auto-determines branch nick if not supplied. (Aaron Bentley)
913
* ``bzrlib.commands.Command.run_direct`` is no longer needed - the pre
914
2.1 method of calling run() to perform testing or direct use via the API
915
is now possible again. As part of this, the _operation attribute on
916
Command is now transient and only exists for the duration of ``run()``.
924
This is the first beta of the 2.2 series, leading up to a 2.2.0
925
release in July or August. Beta releases are suitable for everyday use
926
but may cause some incompatibilities with plugins. Some plugins may need
927
small updates to work with 2.2b1.
929
2.2b1 includes some changes to make merge conflicts easier to understand
930
and resolve. It also removes some old unnecessary code, and loads
931
somewhat less code at startup. It starts adding a common infrastructure
932
for dealing with colocated named branches, which can be implemented in
933
various ways in either bzr native or foreign formats. On Ubuntu and
934
other platforms with the apport bug-reporting library, there's an easier
935
path to report problems with bzr. We plan to continue with these themes
936
through the 2.2 series.
938
Over thirty bugs have been fixed, including in the log command, exporting
939
to tarballs, restarting interrupted system calls, portability of compiled
940
extensions, making backups during upgrade, and locking on ftp.
945
* BTreeGraphIndex can now take an offset to indicate that the data starts
946
somewhere other than then beginning of the file. (John Arbash Meinel)
948
* Deleted very old hidden commands ``versionedfile-list``,
949
``weave-plan-merge``, ``weave-merge-text``.
952
* ``Repository.get_inventory_sha1()`` and ``Repository.get_revision_xml()``
953
have been removed. (Jelmer Vernooij)
955
* ``Repository.get_revision_inventory()`` has been removed in favor of
956
``Repository.get_inventory()``. (Jelmer Vernooij)
958
* All test servers have been moved out of the bzrlib.transport hierarchy to
959
bzrlib.tests.test_server *except* for MemoryServer, ChrootServer and
960
PathFilteringServer. ``bzrlib`` users may encounter test failures that can
961
be fixed by updating the related imports from ``bzrlib.transport.xxx`` to
962
``bzrlib.tests.test_server``.
965
* ``BranchReferenceFormat.initialize()`` now takes an optional name argument
966
as its second parameter, for consistency with the initialize() method of
967
other formats. (Jelmer Vernooij)
972
* Added ``bzr remove-branch`` command that can remove a local or remote
973
branch. (Jelmer Vernooij, #276295)
975
* ``bzr export`` now takes an optional argument ``--per-file-timestamps``
976
to set file mtimes to the last timestamp of the last revision in which
977
they were changed rather than the current time. (Jelmer Vernooij)
979
* If the Apport crash-reporting tool is available, bzr crashes are now
980
stored into the ``/var/crash`` apport spool directory, and the user is
981
invited to report them to the developers from there, either
982
automatically or by running ``apport-bug``. No information is sent
983
without specific permission from the user. (Martin Pool, #515052)
985
* Parsing of command lines, for example in ``diff --using``, no longer
986
treats backslash as an escape character on Windows.
987
(Gordon Tyler, #392428)
989
* Plugins can be disabled by defining ``BZR_DISABLE_PLUGINS`` as
990
a list of plugin names separated by ':' (';' on windows).
991
(Vincent Ladeuil, #411413)
993
* Plugins can be loaded from arbitrary locations by defining
994
``BZR_PLUGINS_AT`` as a list of name@path separated by ':' (';' on
995
windows). This takes precedence over ``BZR_PLUGIN_PATH`` for the
996
specified plugins. This is targeted at plugin developers for punctual
997
needs and *not* intended to replace ``BZR_PLUGIN_PATH``.
998
(Vincent Ladeuil, #82693)
1000
* Tag names can now be determined automatically by ``automatic_tag_name``
1001
hooks on ``Branch`` if they are not specified on the command line.
1004
* Tree-shape conflicts can be resolved by providing ``--take-this`` and
1005
``--take-other`` to the ``bzr resolve`` command. Just marking the conflict
1006
as resolved is still accessible via the ``--done`` default action.
1009
* Merges can be proposed on Launchpad with the new lp-propose-merge command.
1010
(Aaron Bentley, Jonathan Lange)
1015
* Added docstring for ``Tree.iter_changes``
1016
(John Arbash Meinel, #304182)
1018
* Allow additional arguments to
1019
``RemoteRepository.add_inventory_by_delta()``. (Jelmer Vernooij, #532631)
1021
* Allow exporting a single file using ``bzr export``.
1022
(Michal Junák, #511987)
1024
* Allow syscalls to automatically restart when ``TextUIFactory``'s
1025
SIGWINCH handler is invoked, avoiding ``EINTR`` errors during blocking
1026
IO, which are often poorly handled by Python's libraries and parts of
1027
bzrlib. (Andrew Bennetts, #496813)
1029
* Avoid infinite recursion when probing for apport.
1030
(Vincent Ladeuil, #516934)
1032
* Avoid ``malloc(0)`` in ``patiencediff``, which is non-portable.
1033
(Martin Pool, #331095)
1035
* Avoid truncating svn URLs.
1036
(Martin Pool, Martin von Gagern, #545185)
1038
* ``bzr add`` will not add conflict related files unless explicitly required.
1039
(Vincent Ladeuil, #322767, #414589)
1041
* ``bzr dump-btree`` now works on ``*.cix`` and ``*.six`` files. Those
1042
indices do not have reference lists, so ``dump-btree`` will simply show
1043
``None`` instead. (Andrew Bennetts, #488607)
1045
* ``bzr help`` will no longer trigger the get_missing_command hook when
1046
doing a topic lookup. This avoids prompting (like 'no command plugins/loom,
1047
did you mean log?') when getting help. In future we may trigger the hook
1048
deliberately when no help topics match from any help index.
1049
(Robert Collins, #396261)
1051
* ``bzr log -n0 -r..A.B.C`` should not crash but just consider the None
1052
revspec as representing the first revision of the branch.
1053
(Vincent Ladeuil, #519862)
1055
* ``bzr remove-tree`` can now remove multiple working trees.
1056
(Jared Hance, Andrew Bennetts, #253137)
1058
* ``bzr resolve --take-this`` and ``--take-other`` now correctly renames
1059
the kept file on content conflicts where one side deleted the file.
1060
(Vincent Ladeuil, #529968)
1062
* ``bzr upgrade`` now creates the ``backup.bzr`` directory with the same
1063
permissions as ``.bzr`` directory on a POSIX OS.
1064
(Parth Malwankar, #262450)
1066
* ``bzr upgrade`` now names backup directory as ``backup.bzr.~N~`` instead
1067
of ``backup.bzr``. This directory is ignored by bzr commands such as
1069
(Parth Malwankar, #335033, #300001)
1071
* Cope with non-utf8 characters inside ``.bzrignore``.
1072
(Jason Spashett, #183504)
1074
* Correctly interpret "451 Rename/move failure: Directory not empty" from
1075
ftp servers while trying to take a lock.
1076
(Martin Pool, #528722)
1078
* DirStateRevisionTree.kind() was returning wrong result when 'kind'
1079
changes occured between the workingtree and one of its parents.
1080
(Vincent Ladeuil, #535547)
1082
* Fix ``log`` to better check ancestors even if merged revisions are involved.
1083
(Vincent Ladeuil, #476293)
1085
* Loading a plugin from a given path with ``BZR_PLUGINS_AT`` doesn't depend
1086
on os.lisdir() order and is now reliable.
1087
(Vincent Ladeuil, #552922).
1089
* Many IO operations that returned ``EINTR`` were retried even if it
1090
wasn't safe to do so via careless use of ``until_no_eintr``. Bazaar now
1091
only retries operations that are safe to retry, and in some cases has
1092
switched to operations that can be retried (e.g. ``sock.send`` rather than
1094
(Andrew Bennetts, Martin <gzlist@googlemail.com>, #496813)
1096
* Path conflicts now support --take-this and --take-other even when a
1097
deletion is involved.
1098
(Vincent Ladeuil, #531967)
1100
* Network transfer amounts and rates are now displayed in SI units according
1101
to the Ubuntu Units Policy <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnitsPolicy>.
1102
(Gordon Tyler, #514399)
1104
* Support kind markers for socket and fifo filesystem objects. This
1105
prevents ``bzr status --short`` from crashing when those files are
1106
present. (John Arbash Meinel, #303275)
1108
* ``bzr mkdir DIR`` will not create DIR unless DIR's parent is a versioned
1109
directory. (Parth Malwankar, #138600)
1111
* SSH child processes will now ignore SIGQUIT on nix systems so breaking into
1112
the debugger won't kill the session.
1113
(Martin <gzlist@googlemail.com>, #162502)
1115
* Tolerate patches with leading noise in ``bzr-handle-patch``.
1116
(Toshio Kuratomi, Martin Pool, #502076)
1118
* ``update -r`` now supports updating to revisions that are not on
1119
mainline (i.e. it supports dotted revisions).
1120
(Parth Malwankar, #517800)
1122
* Use first apparent author not committer in GNU Changelog format.
1123
(Martin von Gagern, #513322)
1128
* ``bzrlib.merge_directive._BaseMergeDirective`` has been renamed to
1129
``bzrlib.merge_directive.BaseMergeDirective`` and is now public.
1132
* ``BranchFormat.initialize`` now takes an optional ``name`` of the colocated
1133
branch to create. (Jelmer Vernooij)
1135
* ``BzrDir.get_branch_transport`` now takes an optional ``name`` of the
1136
colocated branch to open. (Jelmer Vernooij)
1138
* Added ``bzrlib.osutils.set_signal_handler``, a convenience function that
1139
can set a signal handler and call ``signal.siginterrupt(signum,
1140
False)`` for it, if the platform and Python version supports it.
1141
(Andrew Bennetts, #496813)
1143
* New ``bzrlib.initialize`` is recommended for programs using bzrlib to
1144
run when starting up; it sets up several things that previously needed
1145
to be done separately.
1146
(Martin Pool, #507710)
1148
* Exporters now support a ``per_file_timestamps`` argument to write out the
1149
timestamp of the commit in which a file revision was introduced.
1152
* New method ``BzrDir.list_branches()`` that returns a sequence of branches
1153
present in a control directory. (Jelmer Vernooij)
1155
* New method ``Repository.get_known_graph_ancestry()``.
1156
(Jelmer Vernooij, #495502)
1158
* New transport methods ``readlink``, ``symlink`` and ``hardlink``.
1161
* Remove unused ``CommandFailed`` exception.
1167
* ``bzrlib.branchbuilder.BranchBuilder.build_snapshot`` now accepts a
1168
``message_callback`` in the same way that commit does. (Robert Collins)
1170
* ``bzrlib.builtins.Commit.run`` raises ``bzrlib.errors.BoundBranchOutOfDate``
1171
rather than ``bzrlib.errors.BzrCommandError`` when the bound branch is out
1172
of date. (Gary van der Merwe)
1174
* ``bzrlib.commands.run_bzr`` is more extensible: callers can supply the
1175
functions to load or disable plugins if they wish to use a different
1176
plugin mechanism; the --help, --version and no-command name code paths
1177
now use the generic pluggable command lookup infrastructure.
1180
* ``bzrlib.errors.BoundBranchOutOfDate`` has a new field ``extra_help``
1181
which can be set to add extra help to the error. (Gary van der Merwe)
1183
* New method ``Branch.automatic_tag_name`` that can be used to find the
1184
tag name for a particular revision automatically. (Jelmer Vernooij)
1186
* The methods ``BzrDir.create_branch()``, ``BzrDir.destroy_branch()`` and
1187
``BzrDir.open_branch()`` now take an optional ``name`` argument.
1193
* bzr now has a ``.testr.conf`` file in its source tree configured
1194
appropriately for running tests with Testrepository
1195
(``https://launchpad.net/testrepository``). (Robert Collins)
1197
* Documentation about testing with ``subunit`` has been tweaked.
1200
* Known failures has been added for resolve --take-other on ParentLoop
1201
conflicts. This reflects bug #537956 without fixing it.
1204
* New ``bzrlib.tests.test_import_tariff`` can make assertions about what
1205
Python modules are loaded, to guard against startup time or library
1206
dependency regressions.
1209
* PQM will now run with subunit output. To analyze a PQM error use
1210
tribunal, or cat log | subunit-filter | subunit2pyunit. (Robert Collins)
1212
* Stop sending apport crash files to ``.cache`` in the directory from
1213
which ``bzr selftest`` was run. (Martin Pool, #422350)
1215
* Tests no longer fail if "close() called during concurrent
1216
operation on the same file object" occurs when closing the log file
1217
(which can happen if a thread tries to write to the log file at the
1218
wrong moment). An warning will be written to ``stderr`` when this
1219
happens, and another warning will be written if the log file could not
1220
be closed after retrying 100 times. (Andrew Bennetts, #531746)
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