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- Committer: Andrew Bennetts
- Date: 2010-10-08 08:15:14 UTC
- mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 5498.
- Revision ID: andrew.bennetts@canonical.com-20101008081514-dviqzrdfwyzsqbz2
Split NEWS into per-release doc/en/release-notes/bzr-*.txt
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- bzrlib/cmd_test_script.py
- files renamed:
- doc/en/release-notes/release-template.txt => doc/en/release-notes/NEWS-template.txt
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:2.3.b4: NOT RELEASED YET
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.. These may require users to change the way they use Bazaar.
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.. New commands, options, etc that users may wish to try out.
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.. Improvements to existing commands, especially improved performance
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* Bazaar now caches a branch's tags while that branch is read-locked.
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This removes 1 network roundtrip from most interactions with a remote
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branch. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* ``bzr config <option>`` will now display only the value itself so scripts
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can use it to query the currently active configuration. Displaying several
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options matching a given regular expression is now controlled via the
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``--all`` option. (Vincent Ladeuil, bug #670251)
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* ``bzr resolve`` now reports the number of conflicts resolved and the
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number of remaining conflicts. This provides a better feedback about the
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whole resolution process. (Vincent Ladeuil)
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.. Fixes for situations where bzr would previously crash or give incorrect
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* Better message if there is an error while setting ownership of
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``.bazaar`` directory. (Parth Malwankar, #657553)
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* ``bzr config`` properly displays list values. (Vincent Ladeuil, #672382)
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* ``bzr config`` will now respect option policies when displaying the value
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and display the definition sections when appropriate.
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* Don't create commit message files in the current directory to avoid nasty
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interactions with emacs (which tries to establish the status of the file
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during the commit which breaks on windows). (Vincent Ladeuil, #673637)
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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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* Merge will now correctly locate a lca where there is a criss-cross merge
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of a new root. (Gary van der Merwe, #588698)
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developers, but interesting for bzr developers.
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* Old repository development formats
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RepositoryFormatCHK1 and RepositoryFormatCHK2 have been removed, and so
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have the corresponding metadir format options ``development-rich-root``,
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``development6-rich-root``, and ``development7-rich-root``.
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suite. This can include new facilities for writing tests, fixes to
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spurious test failures and changes to the way things should be tested.
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* Add a null_output_matches_anything keyword argument with default False to
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bzrlib.tests.script.ScriptRunner.run_script to specify that the command
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output should not be checked (as opposed to expecting an empty output).
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* Add --no-tree option to 'bzr push' and 'bzr init' for creating a
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* ``bzr config`` is a new command that displays the configuration options for
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a given directory. It accepts a glob to match against multiple options at
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once. It can also be used to set or delete a configuration option in any
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configuration file. (Vincent Ladeuil)
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* New shortcut url schemes ``ubuntu:`` and ``debianlp:`` access source
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branches on Launchpad. E.g. ``bzr branch ubuntu:foo`` gives you the source
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branch for project ``foo`` in the current distroseries for Ubuntu while
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``bzr branch debianlp:lenny/foo`` gives you the source branch (on Launchpad)
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for project ``foo`` in Debian Lenny.
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(Barry Warsaw, #609186)
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* Provide a configuration option "default_format" that controls the
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default format for new branches created with ``bzr init``.
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* Always set PATH in start_bzr.bat on Windows. (Matthäus G. Chajdas, #470264)
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* ``bzr status -r X..Y`` was failing because RevisionTree didn't implement
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``get_shelf_manager``. (John Arbash Meinel, #662053)
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* Correctly add directory contents when the name was previously added as a
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normal file, rather than throwing ``AttributeError: children`` during
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smart_add. (Martin [gz], #251864)
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* Correctly handle the ``--directory`` option for all code paths of
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``resolve`` and ``shelve``, this was previously ignored when paths were
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provided as parameters. When both are provided, ``--directory`` becomes
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the base directory for the other paths. (Vincent Ladeuil, #670851)
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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, #665100)
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* Fix ``KeyError: 'port'`` when getting the stored password for an http
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URL.
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* Make ``bzr tag --quiet`` really quiet. (Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #239523)
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* Missing files (files bzr add'ed and then OS deleted) are now shown in ``bzr
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status`` output. (Rory Yorke, #134168)
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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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* The ``branch.tags.merge_to(target_branch)`` API used by plugins such as
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``bzr-builddeb`` now propagates changes to the master branch of the
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target branch (if there is one). This makes it consistent with the
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other tag APIs. (Andrew Bennetts, #603395)
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* Add documentation of the ability to edit hunks when shelving.
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* Be more specific about the meaning of revision ranges for ``bzr diff``.
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* Add ``bzrlib.pyutils`` module with helper functions for some Python
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tasks such as resolving a dotted name to a Python object
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(``get_named_object``). (Andrew Bennetts)
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* ``bzrlib.tests.ForwardingResult`` no longer exists. Use
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``testtools.ExtendedToOriginalDecorator`` instead. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* ``known_hooks_key_to_parent_and_attribute`` in ``bzrlib.hooks`` has been
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deprecated in favour of ``known_hooks.key_to_parent_and_attribute`` in
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authors and the news entry itself. (Vincent Ladeuil)
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* ``bzr test-script script`` is a new command that runs a shell-like script
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respects its ``relpath`` parameter. (Vincent Ladeuil)
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default (so tag2 sorts before tag10). The previous default was
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strictly "asciibetical". That behavior is still available as ``bzr tags
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--sort=alpha``. (Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #640760)
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* ``BzrDir.generate_backup_name`` has been deprecated and replaced by a
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private method. ``osutils.available_backup_name`` provides an extensible
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replacement. This allowed the deprecation of
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``bzrlib.transform.get_backup_name``,
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``bzrlib.transform._get_backup_name`` and
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``bzrlib.transform.TreeTransformBase.has_named_child``.
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* Fix signature of RemoteBzrDir.create_workingtree to match that of its
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* Fix traceback with python-2.7's xmlrpclib
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stderr in some other circumstances. (Andrew Bennetts, #633745)
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* Stop ``AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'ElementTree'``
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* The old ``bzr selftest --benchmark`` option has been removed.
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* `tree_files` and `internal_tree_files` are now deprecated in favor of
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* Upgrading or fetching from a non-rich-root repository to a rich-root
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* Allow using both ``--using`` and ``--diff-options``.
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* Allow using both --using and --diff-options.
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(Matthäus G. Chajdas, #234708)
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* Allow using non-integer bug ID with generic bug trackers.
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(Alexandre Garnier, #440472)
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* ``bzr remove`` now just backs up changed files instead of exiting,
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forcing you to choose to either keep or delete them. Bazaar will now delete
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the files if they can easily be recovered using revert, otherwise they
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will be backed up (adding an extention of the form .~#~).
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(Marius Kruger, #400554)
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* ``bzr revert`` and ``bzr status`` are up to 15% faster on large trees
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with many changes by not repeatedly building a list of all file-ids.
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(Andrew Bennetts)
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* Decrease memory consumption when many chk index pages are loaded. (Such
470
as during ``bzr co`` or ``bzr ls -R`` of a large tree.) Often we need to
471
read many chk pages because the individual chk map nodes will be spread
472
randomly. Peak memory for 'bzr ls -R' on a large tree dropped from 396MB
473
down to 247MB, expect even more significant savings on 64-bit platforms.
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(John Arbash Meinel)
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* Decrease peak memory during ``bzr send``. The old code was caching all
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text content and all inventory strings for all revisions before
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computing the diffs. Now we only cache as long as there is a child that
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will need them. Sending 2000 bzr revisions drops from 1.2GB peak to
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256MB peak. (John Arbash Meinel, #614576)
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* ``DirState`` internals use a little bit less memory. For bzr.dev it
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drops the memory from 1MB down to about 800kB. And replaces a few
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thousand tuples and sets with StaticTuple. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* Inventory entries now consume less memory (on 32-bit Ubuntu file entries
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have dropped from 68 bytes to 40, and directory entries from 120 bytes
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to 48). (Andrew Bennetts)
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* Reduce peak memory by one copy of compressed text when writing to pack
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repositories.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #566940)
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* When building new working trees, default to reading from the repository
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rather than the source tree unless explicitly requested. (via
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``--files-from`` and ``--hardlink`` for ``bzr branch`` and
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``bzr checkout``. Generally, 2a format repositories extract
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content faster than seeking and reading content from another tree,
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especially in cold-cache situations. (John Arbash Meinel, #607298)
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* Add ``__pycache__`` to the default ``ignores`` file. Future releases of
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Python will use this directory to store bytecodes.
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(Andrea Corbellini, #626687)
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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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marked versioned too.
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marked versioned too.
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(Martin Pool, #192859)
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* ``bzr clean-tree`` issues a warning if it is unable to delete a file
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due to ``errno.EACCES`` instead of exiting with an error on Windows.
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(Parth Malwankar, #430785)
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* ``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 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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regular expression.
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(Parth Malwankar #300062)
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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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* ``clean-tree`` issues a warning if it is unable to delete a file
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due to ``errno.EACCES`` instead of exiting with an error on Windows.
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(Parth Malwankar, #430785)
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* CommitBuilder now uses the committer instead of _config.username to generate
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the revision-id. (Aaron Bentley, #614404)
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* Cope with Microsoft FTP Server and VSFTPd that return reply '250
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Directory created' when mkdir succeeds. (Martin Pool, #224373)
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* `decode` parameter to get() method in FtpTransport and GioTransport classes
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is deprecated. (Alexander Belchenko)
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* Decrease peak memory during ``bzr send``. The old code was caching all
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text content and all inventory strings for all revisions before
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computing the diffs. Now we only cache as long as there is a child that
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will need them. Sending 2000 bzr revisions drops from 1.2GB peak to
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256MB peak. (John Arbash Meinel, #614576)
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* Don't print internal object name when print an invalid revision spec
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error. (Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #598701)
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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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* Fix signature of RemoteBzrDir.create_workingtree to match that of its
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superclass. (Neil Martinsen-Burrell, Martin Pool, #524627)
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* Fix spurious paramiko warning on hardy by ensuring that ``selftest``
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properly remove its warning filter. (Vincent Ladeuil, #625686)
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* 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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* Fix a problem in bzr's ``Makefile`` that meant syntax errors in some
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parts of bzr's source code could cause ``make check-nodocs`` to
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incorrectly return an exit code of 0.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #626667)
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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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* `PathNotChild` should not give a traceback.
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(Martin Pool, #98735)
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* ``PQM`` will no longer ignore syntax errors in submissions.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #626667)
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* Prevent ``CHKMap.apply_delta`` from generating non-canonical CHK maps,
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which can result in "missing referenced chk root keys" errors when
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fetching from repositories with affected revisions.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #522637)
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* Raise ValueError instead of a string exception.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #586926)
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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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* strace test-helper tests cope with the new Ubuntu policy of not allowing
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users to attach to their own processes by default.
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(Martin Pool, #626679)
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be available from ``bzrlib.tests.*``. They used to be, but were
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accidentally removed. (John Arbash Meinel, #627438)
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* Treat all IO, OS, and socket errors consistently when establishing
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SSH/SFTP connections via a subprocess. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* ``Transport.stat`` on a symlink, including a transport pointing directly
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to a symlink, now returns information about the symlink.
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(Martin Pool)
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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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``'Inter1and2Helper' object has no attribute 'source_repo'``.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #636930)
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* Wait for the SSH server to actually finish, rather than just waiting for
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it to negotiate the key exchange. (John Arbash Meinel, #626876)
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* ``bzr remove`` now just backs up changed files instead of exiting,
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forcing you to choose to either keep or delete them. Bazaar will now delete
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the files if they can easily be recovered using revert, otherwise they
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will be backed up (adding an extention of the form .~#~).
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(Marius Kruger, #400554)
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* ``bzr revert`` and ``bzr status`` are up to 15% faster on large trees
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with many changes by not repeatedly building a list of all file-ids.
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(Andrew Bennetts)
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* Decrease memory consumption when many chk index pages are loaded. (Such
397
as during ``bzr co`` or ``bzr ls -R`` of a large tree.) Often we need to
398
read many chk pages because the individual chk map nodes will be spread
399
randomly. Peak memory for 'bzr ls -R' on a large tree dropped from 396MB
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down to 247MB, expect even more significant savings on 64-bit platforms.
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(John Arbash Meinel)
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* ``DirState`` internals use a little bit less memory. For bzr.dev it
404
drops the memory from 1MB down to about 800kB. And replaces a few
405
thousand tuples and sets with StaticTuple. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* Inventory entries now consume less memory (on 32-bit Ubuntu file entries
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have dropped from 68 bytes to 40, and directory entries from 120 bytes
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to 48). (Andrew Bennetts)
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* When building new working trees, default to reading from the repository
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rather than the source tree unless explicitly requested. (via
413
``--files-from`` and ``--hardlink`` for ``bzr branch`` and
414
``bzr checkout``. Generally, 2a format repositories extract
415
content faster than seeking and reading content from another tree,
416
especially in cold-cache situations. (John Arbash Meinel, #607298)
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* Add ``__pycache__`` to the default ``ignores`` file. Future releases of
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Python will use this directory to store bytecodes.
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(Andrea Corbellini, #626687)
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Documentation
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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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* Suggest ``bzr revert`` for restoring locally deleted files in help text
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for ``bzr update``. (John C Barstow, #191466)
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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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* `ControlDirFormat` and `ControlDir` have been split out of `BzrDirFormat`
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and `BzrDir`, respectively. `ControlDirFormat`
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and `ControlDir` should be used as the base classes for new non-.bzr
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implementations.
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`BzrDirFormat.register_control_format` has been renamed to
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`ControlDirFormat.register_format`.
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`BzrDirFormat.register_server_control_format` has been removed.
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Probing for control directories is now done by separate objects derived
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from `bzrlib.controldir.Prober` and registered using
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`bzrlib.controldir.ControlDirFormat.register_prober` or
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`bzrlib.controldir.ControlDirFormat.register_server_prober`.
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`BzrDirFormat.probe_transport` has been moved onto `Prober`.
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`BzrDirFormat.register_format` has been renamed to
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`BzrProber.register_bzrdir_format`.
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`bzrlib.bzrdir.network_format_registry` has been moved to
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`bzrlib.controldir`.
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(Jelmer Vernooij)
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* ``bzrlib.transform.TreeTransformBase.final_kind``,
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``bzrlib.transform.TreeTransform.tree_kind`` and
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``bzrlib.transform.TransformPreview.tree_kind`` now return None instead
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of raising NoSuchFile. (Vincent Ladeuil)
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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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* Configuration files should now use the ``from_string`` constructor rather
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than the ``file`` parameter of the ``_get_parser`` method. The later has
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been deprecated. ``from_string`` also accept a ``save=True`` parameter to
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* Deprecate treating a `PushResult` and `PullResult` as an integer for the
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relative change in revno.
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(Martin Pool)
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* `FileInWrongBranch` is deprecated in favour of `PathNotChild` and no
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longer raised.
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(Martin Pool)
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`
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* ``IniBaseConfig`` objects should now use the ``from_string`` constructor
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the rather than the ``file`` parameter of the ``_get_parser`` method. The
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later has been deprecated. (Vincent Ladeuil)
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constructor has been deprecated, use the ``file_name`` parameter instead.
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(Vincent Ladeuil)
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* `tree_files` and `internal_tree_files` are now deprecated in favor of
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`WorkingTree.open_containing_paths`.
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(Martin Pool)
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* ``WorkingTree`` methods ``pull``, ``update``, and ``_update_tree``
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now have an optional argument, ``show_base``, which is by default
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False. This is flag is ultimately passed to ``merge.merge_inner``
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in each case. (Rory Yorke, #202374)
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Testing
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* Avoid spurious failures in ssh tests: wait for the SSH server to
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actually finish, rather than just waiting for it to negotiate the key
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exchange. (John Arbash Meinel, #626876)
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* ``build_tree_contents`` can create symlinks.
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(Martin Pool, John Arbash Meinel)
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* Rearrange thread leak detection code to eliminate global state and make it
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possible to extend the reporting. (Martin [gz], #633462)
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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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(Martin Pool)
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* Suppress the "maximum recursion depth exceeded in __subclasscheck__"
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warning on stderr emitted during ``test_dict_deepnested`` in
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``bzrlib/tests/test__bencode.py``. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* The test suite now simply holds log files in memory, rather than writing them
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