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- Committer: Andrew Bennetts
- Date: 2010-10-08 08:15:14 UTC
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Bazaar Release Notes
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bzr 1.18.1
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:Codename: nein nein nein!
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:1.18.1: 2009-09-09
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This release fixes two small but worthwhile bugs relevant to users on
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Microsoft Windows: some commands that failed on with locking errors will
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now work, and a bug that caused poor performance after committing a file
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with line-ending conversion has now been fixed. It also fixes a bug in
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pushing to older servers.
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Bug Fixes
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* Fixed a problem where using content filtering and especially end-of-line
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conversion will commit too many copies a file.
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(Martin Pool, #415508)
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* Fix assertion error about ``_remember_remote_is_before`` in
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``set_tags_bytes`` when pushing to older smart servers.
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(Andrew Bennetts, Alexander Belchenko, #418931)
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Improvements
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* ``bzr push`` locally on Windows will no longer give a locking error with
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dirstate based formats. (Robert Collins)
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* ``bzr shelve`` and ``bzr unshelve`` now work on Windows.
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(Robert Collins, #305006)
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API Changes
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* ``bzrlib.shelf_ui`` has had the ``from_args`` convenience methods of its
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classes changed to manage lock lifetime of the trees they open in a way
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consistent with reader-exclusive locks. (Robert Collins, #305006)
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* ``Tree.path_content_summary`` may return a size of None, when called on
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a tree with content filtering where the size of the canonical form
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cannot be cheaply determined. (Martin Pool)
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* When manually creating transport servers in test cases, a new helper
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``TestCase.start_server`` that registers a cleanup and starts the server
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should be used. (Robert Collins)
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bzr 1.18
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Compatibility Breaks
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* Committing directly to a stacked branch from a lightweight checkout will
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no longer work. In previous versions this would appear to work but would
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generate repositories with insufficient data to create deltas, leading
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to later errors when branching or reading from the repository.
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(Robert Collins, bug #375013)
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New Features
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Bug Fixes
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* Fetching from 2a branches from a version-2 bzr protocol would fail to
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copy the internal inventory pages from the CHK store. This cannot happen
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in normal use as all 2a compatible clients and servers support the
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version-3 protocol, but it does cause test suite failures when testing
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downlevel protocol behaviour. (Robert Collins)
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* Fix a test failure on karmic by making a locale test more robust.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #413514)
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* Fixed "Pack ... already exists" error when running ``bzr pack`` on a
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fully packed 2a repository. (Andrew Bennetts, #382463)
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* Further tweaks to handling of ``bzr add`` messages about ignored files.
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(Jason Spashett, #76616)
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* Properly handle fetching into a stacked branch while converting the
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data, especially when there are also ghosts. The code was filling in
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parent inventories incorrectly, and also not handling when one of the
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parents was a ghost. (John Arbash Meinel, #402778, #412198)
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* ``RemoteStreamSource.get_stream_for_missing_keys`` will fetch CHK
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inventory pages when appropriate (by falling back to the vfs stream
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source). (Andrew Bennetts, #406686)
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* StreamSource generates rich roots from non-rich root sources correctly
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now. (Andrew Bennetts, #368921)
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* When deciding whether a repository was compatible for upgrading or
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fetching, we previously incorrectly checked the default repository
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format for the bzrdir format, rather than the format that was actually
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present on disk. (Martin Pool, #408824)
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Improvements
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* A better description of the platform is shown in crash tracebacks, ``bzr
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--version`` and ``bzr selftest``.
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(Martin Pool, #409137)
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* Cross-format fetches (such as between 1.9-rich-root and 2a) via the
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smart server are more efficient now. They send inventory deltas rather
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than full inventories. The smart server has two new requests,
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``Repository.get_stream_1.19`` and ``Repository.insert_stream_1.19`` to
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support this. (Andrew Bennetts, #374738, #385826)
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* Extracting the full ancestry and computing the ``merge_sort`` is now
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significantly faster. This effects things like ``bzr log -n0``. (For
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example, ``bzr log -r -10..-1 -n0 bzr.dev`` is 2.5s down to 1.0s.
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(John Arbash Meinel)
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Documentation
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API Changes
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Internals
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* ``-Dstrict_locks`` can now be used to check that read and write locks
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are treated properly w.r.t. exclusivity. (We don't try to take an OS
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read lock on a file that we already have an OS write lock on.) This is
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now set by default for all tests, if you have a test which cannot be
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fixed, you can use ``self.thisFailsStrictLockCheck()`` as a
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compatibility knob. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* InterDifferingSerializer is now only used locally. Other fetches that
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would have used InterDifferingSerializer now use the more network
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friendly StreamSource, which now automatically does the same
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transformations as InterDifferingSerializer. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* ``KnownGraph`` now has a ``.topo_sort`` and ``.merge_sort`` member which
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are implemented in pyrex and significantly faster. This is exposed along
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with ``CombinedGraphIndex.find_ancestry()`` as
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``VersionedFiles.get_known_graph_ancestry(keys)``.
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(John Arbash Meinel)
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* RemoteBranch.open now honours ignore_fallbacks correctly on bzr-v2
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protocols. (Robert Collins)
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* The index code now has some specialized routines to extract the full
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ancestry of a key in a more efficient manner.
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``CombinedGraphIndex.find_ancestry()``. (Time to get ancestry for
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bzr.dev drops from 1.5s down to 300ms. For OOo from 33s => 10.5s) (John
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Arbash Meinel)
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* Install the test ssl certificate and key so that installed bzr
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can run the https tests. (Denys Duchier, #392401)
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bzr 1.18rc1
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:Codename: little traveller
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:1.18: 2009-08-20
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This release of Bazaar marches on towards the 2.0 release in which the 2a
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'brisbane-core' format becomes generally recommended. Most of the work in
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this release now focusses on bug fixes and stabilization, covering both 2a
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and previous formats. There is a new text-mode interactive merge feature,
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a new guide to migration to 2a format in the user documentation, and
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pushing branches to a smart server is now much faster.
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The Bazaar team decided that 2.0 will be a long-term supported release,
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with bugfix-only releases based on it continuing for at least six months
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or until the following stable release.
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There are no changes from 1.18rc1 to 1.18.
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* ``bzr merge --interactive`` applies a user-selected portion of the
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merge. The UI is similar to ``shelve``. (Aaron Bentley)
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* ``bzr reconfigure`` now takes options ``--stacked-on URL`` and
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``--unstacked`` to change stacking of a branch.
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(Martin Pool, #391411)
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* Annotating on a stacked branch will now succeed in simple scenarios.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #393366)
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* A progress bar is no longer left dangling when ``bzr selftest``
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completes, and the progress bar updates with zero latency so the
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displayed test name is always the one that's actually running.
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(Martin Pool, #123688)
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* Authenticating against an ssh server now uses ``auth_none`` to determine
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if password authentication is even supported. This fixes a bug where
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users would be prompted for a launchpad password, even though launchpad
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only supports publickey authentication. (John Arbash Meinel, #375867)
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* BranchBuilder now accepts timezone to avoid test failures in countries far
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from GMT. (Vincent Ladeuil, #397716)
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* ``bzr commit`` no longer saves the unversioning of missing files until
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the commit has completed on the branch. This means that aborting a
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commit that found a missing file will leave the tree unedited.
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(Robert Collins, #282402)
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* ``bzr mv`` no longer takes out branch locks, which allows it to work
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when the branch is readonly. (Robert Collins, #216541)
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* ``bzr revert .`` no longer generates an InconsistentDelta error when
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there are missing subtrees. (Robert Collins, #367632)
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* ``bzr send`` now generates valid bundles with ``--2a`` formats. However,
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do to internal changes necessary to support this, older clients will
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fail when trying to insert them. For newer clients, the bundle can be
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used to apply the changes to any rich-root compatible format.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #393349)
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* Cope with FTP servers that don't support restart/append by falling back
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to reading and then rewriting the whole file, such as TahoeLAFS. (This
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fallback may be slow for some access patterns.) (Nils Durner, #294709)
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* Encode the paths in ``mbcs`` encoding on Windows when spawning an
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external diff client. This at least allows supporting filenames that are
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not ascii, but are present in the current locale. Ideally we would be
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able to pass the Unicode path, but that would be client dependent.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #382709)
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* Fix a compile bug on Solaris having to do with const and
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pointer-to-pointers. (John Arbash Meinel, #408441)
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* Fixed a NameError that occurs when merging or pulling from a URL that
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causes a redirection loop when bzr tries to read a URL as a bundle.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #400847)
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* Fix ``AttributeError: 'TestUIFactory' object has no attribute 'tick'``
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running send and similar commands on 2a formats.
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* Fix crash in some invocations of ``bzr status`` in format 2a.
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* Fixed export to existing directory: if directory is empty then export
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will succeed, otherwise it fails with error.
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(Alexander Belchenko, #406174)
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* Fixed spurious "Source branch does not support stacking" warning when
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pushing. (Andrew Bennetts, #388908)
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* Fixed spurious transport activity indicator appearing while tests are
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running. (Martin Pool, #343532)
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* Merge now correctly handles empty right-hand revision specs.
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* Renames to lexographically lower basenames in trees that have never been
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committed to will no longer corrupt the dirstate. This was caused by an
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bug in the dirstate update_minimal method. (Robert Collins, #395556)
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* Requests for unknown methods no longer cause the smart server to log
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lots of backtraces about ``UnknownSmartMethod``, ``do_chunk`` or
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``do_end``. (Andrew Bennetts, #338561)
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* Shelve will not shelve the initial add of the tree root. (Aaron Bentley)
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* Streaming from bzr servers where there is a chain of stacked branches
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(A stacked on B stacked on C) will now work. (Robert Collins, #406597)
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* The environment variable ``BZR_PROGRESS_BAR`` set to either ``text`` or ``none``
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always forces progress bars either on or off respectively. Otherwise,
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they're turned on if ``TERM`` is not ``dumb`` and stderr is a terminal.
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bzr always uses the 'text' user interface when run as a command, so
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``BZR_USE_TEXT_UI`` is no longer needed.
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* The optional ``_knit_load_data_pyx`` C extension was never being
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imported. This caused significant slowdowns when reading data from
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repositories. (Andrew Bennetts, #405653)
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* The ``--hardlink`` option to ``branch`` and ``checkout`` is not
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supported at the moment on workingtree formats that can do content
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filtering. (See <https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/408193>.)
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bzr now says so, rather than just ignoring the option. (Martin Pool)
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* There was a bug in ``osutils.relpath`` that was only triggered on
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Windows. Essentially if you were at the root of a drive, and did
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something to a branch/repo on another drive, we would go into an
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* ``WorkingTree4.unversion`` will no longer fail to unversion ids which
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* Can now rename/move files even if they have been removed from the inventory.
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* Pushing branches with tags via ``bzr://`` and ``bzr+ssh://`` is much
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faster, using a new ``Branch.set_tags_bytes`` smart server verb rather
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than VFS methods. For example, pushes of small branches with tags take
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11 rather than 18 smart server requests. (Andrew Bennetts, #398608)
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* Sending Ctrl-Break on Windows will now drop you into the debugger, in
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* Added Bazaar 2.0 Upgrade Guide. (Ian Clatworthy)
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* ``CLIUIFactory`` is deprecated; use ``TextUIFactory`` instead if you
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need to subclass or create a specific class, or better yet the existing
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``make_ui_for_terminal``. ``SilentUIFactory`` is clarified to do no
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user interaction at all, rather than trying to read from stdin but not
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writing any output, which would be strange if reading prompts or
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passwords. (Martin Pool)
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* New TransformPreview.commit() allows committing without a working tree.
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* ``pb`` parameter to ``TextTestResult`` is deprecated and ignored.
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* ProgressTasks now prefer to talk direct to their ProgressView not to the
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* ``WorkingTree._check`` now requires a references dict with keys matching
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reading the entries along the path, reducing work to lookup ids from
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* ``CHKMap.apply_delta`` now raises ``InconsistentDelta`` if a delta adds
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as new a key which was already mapped. (Robert Collins)
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* Inventory delta application catches more cases of corruption and can
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prevent corrupt deltas from affecting consistency of data structures on
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disk. (Robert Collins)
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* --subunit support now adds timestamps if the subunit version supports
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