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When you change bzrlib, please update the relevant documentation for the
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change you made: Changes to commands should update their help, and
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possibly end user tutorials; changes to the core library should be
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reflected in API documentation.
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If you make a user-visible change, please add a note to the NEWS file.
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The description should be written to make sense to someone who's just
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a user of bzr, not a developer: new functions or classes shouldn't be
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mentioned, but new commands, changes in behaviour or fixed nontrivial
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bugs should be listed. See the existing entries for an idea of what
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Within each release, entries in the news file should have the most
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user-visible changes first. So the order should be approximately:
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* changes to existing behaviour - the highest priority because the
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user's existing knowledge is incorrect
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* new features - should be brought to their attention
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* bug fixes - may be of interest if the bug was affecting them, and
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should include the bug number if any
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* major documentation changes, including fixed documentation bugs
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* changes to internal interfaces
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People who made significant contributions to each change are listed in
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To help with merging, NEWS entries should be sorted lexicographically
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The docstring of a command is used by ``bzr help`` to generate help output
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for the command. The list 'takes_options' attribute on a command is used by
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``bzr help`` to document the options for the command - the command
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docstring does not need to document them. Finally, the '_see_also'
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attribute on a command can be used to reference other related help topics.
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Functions, methods, classes and modules should have docstrings
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describing how they are used.
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The first line of the docstring should be a self-contained sentence.
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For the special case of Command classes, this acts as the user-visible
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documentation shown by the help command.
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