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Bazaar Release Notes
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bzr 0.92
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:Released: 2007-11-05
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Changes
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* New uninstaller on Win32. (Alexander Belchenko)
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bzr 0.92rc1
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:Released: 2007-10-29
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Changes
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* ``bzr`` now returns exit code 4 if an internal error occurred, and
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3 if a normal error occurred. (Martin Pool)
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* ``pull``, ``merge`` and ``push`` will no longer silently correct some
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repository index errors that occured as a result of the Weave disk format.
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Instead the ``reconcile`` command needs to be run to correct those
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problems if they exist (and it has been able to fix most such problems
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since bzr 0.8). Some new problems have been identified during this release
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and you should run ``bzr check`` once on every repository to see if you
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need to reconcile. If you cannot ``pull`` or ``merge`` from a remote
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repository due to mismatched parent errors - a symptom of index errors -
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you should simply take a full copy of that remote repository to a clean
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directory outside any local repositories, then run reconcile on it, and
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finally pull from it locally. (And naturally email the repositories owner
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to ask them to upgrade and run reconcile).
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(Robert Collins)
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Features
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* New ``knitpack-experimental`` repository format. This is interoperable with
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the ``dirstate-tags`` format but uses a smarter storage design that greatly
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speeds up many operations, both local and remote. This new format can be
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used as an option to the ``init``, ``init-repository`` and ``upgrade``
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commands. (Robert Collins)
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* For users of bzr-svn (and those testing the prototype subtree support) that
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wish to try packs, a new ``knitpack-subtree-experimental`` format has also
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been added. This is interoperable with the ``dirstate-subtrees`` format.
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(Robert Collins)
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* New ``reconfigure`` command. (Aaron Bentley)
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* New ``revert --forget-merges`` command, which removes the record of a pending
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merge without affecting the working tree contents. (Martin Pool)
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* New ``bzr_remote_path`` configuration variable allows finer control of
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remote bzr locations than BZR_REMOTE_PATH environment variable.
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(Aaron Bentley)
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* New ``launchpad-login`` command to tell Bazaar your Launchpad
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user ID. This can then be used by other functions of the
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Launchpad plugin. (James Henstridge)
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Performance
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* Commit in quiet mode is now slightly faster as the information to
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output is no longer calculated. (Ian Clatworthy)
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* Commit no longer checks for new text keys during insertion when the
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revision id was deterministically unique. (Robert Collins)
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* Committing a change which is not a merge and does not change the number of
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files in the tree is faster by utilising the data about whether files are
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changed to determine if the tree is unchanged rather than recalculating
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it at the end of the commit process. (Robert Collins)
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* Inventory serialisation no longer double-sha's the content.
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(Robert Collins)
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* Knit text reconstruction now avoids making copies of the lines list for
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interim texts when building a single text. The new ``apply_delta`` method
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on ``KnitContent`` aids this by allowing modification of the revision id
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such objects represent. (Robert Collins)
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* Pack indices are now partially parsed for specific key lookup using a
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bisection approach. (Robert Collins)
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* Partial commits are now approximately 40% faster by walking over the
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unselected current tree more efficiently. (Robert Collins)
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* XML inventory serialisation takes 20% less time while being stricter about
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the contents. (Robert Collins)
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* Graph ``heads()`` queries have been fixed to no longer access all history
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unnecessarily. (Robert Collins)
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Improvements
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* ``bzr+https://`` smart server across https now supported.
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(John Ferlito, Martin Pool, #128456)
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* Mutt is now a supported mail client; set ``mail_client=mutt`` in your
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bazaar.conf and ``send`` will use mutt. (Keir Mierle)
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* New option ``-c``/``--change`` for ``merge`` command for cherrypicking
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changes from one revision. (Alexander Belchenko, #141368)
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* Show encodings, locale and list of plugins in the traceback message.
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(Martin Pool, #63894)
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* Experimental directory formats can now be marked with
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``experimental = True`` during registration. (Ian Clatworthy)
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Documentation
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* New *Bazaar in Five Minutes* guide. (Matthew Revell)
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* The hooks reference documentation is now converted to html as expected.
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Bug Fixes
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* Connection error reporting for the smart server has been fixed to
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display a user friendly message instead of a traceback.
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(Ian Clatworthy, #115601)
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* Make sure to use ``O_BINARY`` when opening files to check their
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sha1sum. (Alexander Belchenko, John Arbash Meinel, #153493)
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* Fix a problem with Win32 handling of the executable bit.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #149113)
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* ``bzr+ssh://`` and ``sftp://`` URLs that do not specify ports explicitly
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no longer assume that means port 22. This allows people using OpenSSH to
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override the default port in their ``~/.ssh/config`` if they wish. This
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fixes a bug introduced in bzr 0.91. (Andrew Bennetts, #146715)
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* Commands reporting exceptions can now be profiled and still have their
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data correctly dumped to a file. For example, a ``bzr commit`` with
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no changes still reports the operation as pointless but doing so no
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longer throws away the profiling data if this command is run with
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``--lsprof-file callgrind.out.ci`` say. (Ian Clatworthy)
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* Fallback to ftp when paramiko is not installed and sftp can't be used for
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``tests/commands`` so that the test suite is still usable without
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paramiko.
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* Fix commit ordering in corner case. (Aaron Bentley, #94975)
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* Fix long standing bug in partial commit when there are renames
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left in tree. (Robert Collins, #140419)
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* Fix selftest semi-random noise during http related tests.
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* Fix typo in ftp.py making the reconnection fail on temporary errors.
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* Fix failing test by comparing real paths to cover the case where the TMPDIR
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contains a symbolic link.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #141382).
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* Fix log against smart server branches that don't support tags.
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(James Westby, #140615)
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* Fix pycurl http implementation by defining error codes from
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pycurl instead of relying on an old curl definition.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #147530)
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* Fix 'unprintable error' message when displaying BzrCheckError and
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some other exceptions on Python 2.5.
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* Fix ``Inventory.copy()`` and add test for it. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* Handles default value for ListOption in cmd_commit.
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* HttpServer and FtpServer need to be closed properly or a listening socket
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will remain opened.
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* Monitor the .bzr directory created in the top level test
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directory to detect leaking tests.
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* The basename, not the full path, is now used when checking whether
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the profiling dump file begins with ``callgrind.out`` or not. This
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fixes a bug reported by Aaron Bentley on IRC. (Ian Clatworthy)
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* Trivial fix for invoking command ``reconfigure`` without arguments.
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* ``WorkingTree.rename_one`` will now raise an error if normalisation of the
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new path causes bzr to be unable to access the file. (Robert Collins)
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* Correctly detect a NoSuchFile when using a filezilla server. (Gary van der
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* ``bzrlib.index.GraphIndex`` now requires a size parameter to the
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constructor, for enabling bisection searches. (Robert Collins)
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* ``CommitBuilder.record_entry_contents`` now requires the root entry of a
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tree be supplied to it, previously failing to do so would trigger a
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deprecation warning. (Robert Collins)
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* ``KnitVersionedFile.add*`` will no longer cache added records even when
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enable_cache() has been called - the caching feature is now exclusively for
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reading existing data. (Robert Collins)
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* ``ReadOnlyLockError`` is deprecated; ``LockFailed`` is usually more
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appropriate. (Martin Pool)
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* Removed ``bzrlib.transport.TransportLogger`` - please see the new
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``trace+`` transport instead. (Robert Collins)
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* Removed previously deprecated varargs interface to ``TestCase.run_bzr`` and
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deprecated methods ``TestCase.capture`` and ``TestCase.run_bzr_captured``.
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* Removed previous deprecated ``basis_knit`` parameter to the
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``KnitVersionedFile`` constructor. (Robert Collins)
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* Special purpose method ``TestCase.run_bzr_decode`` is moved to the test_non_ascii
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class that needs it.
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* The class ``bzrlib.repofmt.knitrepo.KnitRepository3`` has been folded into
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``KnitRepository`` by parameters to the constructor. (Robert Collins)
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* The ``VersionedFile`` interface now allows content checks to be bypassed
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by supplying check_content=False. This saves nearly 30% of the minimum
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cost to store a version of a file. (Robert Collins)
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* Tree's with bad state such as files with no length or sha will no longer
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be silently accepted by the repository XML serialiser. To serialise
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inventories without such data, pass working=True to write_inventory.
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* ``VersionedFile.fix_parents`` has been removed as a harmful API.
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``VersionedFile.join`` will no longer accept different parents on either
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side of a join - it will either ignore them, or error, depending on the
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put by the method call, to allow avoiding stat-after-write or
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housekeeping in callers. (Robert Collins)
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* ``bzrlib.xml_serializer.Serializer`` is now responsible for checking that
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mandatory attributes are present on serialisation and deserialisation.
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This fixes some holes in API usage and allows better separation between
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physical storage and object serialisation. (Robert Collins)
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* New class ``bzrlib.errors.InternalBzrError`` which is just a convenient
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shorthand for deriving from BzrError and setting internal_error = True.
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* New method ``bzrlib.mutabletree.update_to_one_parent_via_delta`` for
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moving the state of a parent tree to a new version via a delta rather than
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a complete replacement tree. (Robert Collins)
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* New method ``bzrlib.osutils.minimum_path_selection`` useful for removing
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duplication from user input, when a user mentions both a path and an item
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contained within that path. (Robert Collins)
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* New method ``bzrlib.repository.Repository.is_write_locked`` useful for
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determining if a repository is write locked. (Robert Collins)
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* New method on ``bzrlib.tree.Tree`` ``path_content_summary`` provides a
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tuple containing the key information about a path for commit processing
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to complete. (Robert Collins)
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* New method on xml serialisers, write_inventory_to_lines, which matches the
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API used by knits for adding content. (Robert Collins)
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* New module ``bzrlib.bisect_multi`` with generic multiple-bisection-at-once
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logic, currently only available for byte-based lookup
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(``bisect_multi_bytes``). (Robert Collins)
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* New helper ``bzrlib.tuned_gzip.bytes_to_gzip`` which takes a byte string
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and returns a gzipped version of the same. This is used to avoid a bunch
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of api friction during adding of knit hunks. (Robert Collins)
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* New parameter on ``bzrlib.transport.Transport.readv``
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``adjust_for_latency`` which changes readv from returning strictly the
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requested data to inserted return larger ranges and in forward read order
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to reduce the effect of network latency. (Robert Collins)
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* New parameter yield_parents on ``Inventory.iter_entries_by_dir`` which
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causes the parents of a selected id to be returned recursively, so all the
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paths from the root down to each element of selected_file_ids are
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* The CommitBuilder method ``record_entry_contents`` now returns summary
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information about the effect of the commit on the repository. This tuple
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contains an inventory delta item if the entry changed from the basis, and a
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boolean indicating whether a new file graph node was recorded.
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logging activity taken to its _activity attribute. (Robert Collins)
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not caught and reported in the usual way, but rather allowed to propagate
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up and be visible to the test suite. A new API ``run_bzr_catch_user_errors``
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makes this behavior available to other users.
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* New method ``TestCase.call_catch_warnings`` for testing methods that
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