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- Committer: Canonical.com Patch Queue Manager
- Date: 2010-10-15 07:36:59 UTC
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Bazaar Release Notes
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.. toctree::
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bzr 1.4
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:Released: 2008-04-28
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This release of Bazaar includes handy improvements to the speed of log and
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status, new options for several commands, improved documentation, and better
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hooks, including initial code for server-side hooks. A number of bugs have
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been fixed, particularly in interoperability between different formats or
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different releases of Bazaar over there network. There's been substantial
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internal work in both the repository and network code to enable new features
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and faster performance.
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Bug Fixes
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* Pushing a branch in "dirstate" format (Branch5) over bzr+ssh would break
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if the remote server was < version 1.2. This was due to a bug in the
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RemoteRepository.get_parent_map() fallback code.
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(John Arbash Meinel, Andrew Bennetts, #214894)
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bzr 1.4rc2
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:Released: 2008-04-21
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Bug Fixes
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* ``bzr log -r ..X bzr://`` was failing, because it was getting a request
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for ``revision_id=None`` which was not a string.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #211661)
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* Fixed a bug in handling ghost revisions when logging changes in a
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particular file. (John Arbash Meinel, #209948)
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* Fix error about "attempt to add line-delta in non-delta knit".
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(Andrew Bennetts, #205156)
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* Fixed performance degradation in fetching from knit repositories to
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knits and packs due to parsing the entire revisions.kndx on every graph
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walk iteration fixed by using the Repository.get_graph API. There was
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another regression in knit => knit fetching which re-read the index for
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every revision each side had in common.
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(Robert Collins, John Arbash Meinel)
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bzr 1.4rc1
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:Released: 2008-04-11
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Changes
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* bzr main script cannot be imported (Benjamin Peterson)
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* On GNU/Linux bzr additionally looks for plugins in arch-independent site
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directory. (Toshio Kuratomi)
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* The ``set_rh`` branch hook is now deprecated. Please migrate
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any plugins using this hook to use an alternative, e.g.
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``post_change_branch_tip``. (Ian Clatworthy)
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* When a plugin cannot be loaded as the file path is not a valid
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python module name bzr will now strip a ``bzr_`` prefix from the
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front of the suggested name, as many plugins (e.g. bzr-svn)
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want to be installed without this prefix. It is a common mistake
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to have a folder named "bzr-svn" for that plugin, especially
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as this is what bzr branch lp:bzr-svn will give you. (James Westby,
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Andrew Cowie)
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* UniqueIntegerBugTracker now appends bug-ids instead of joining
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them to the base URL. Plugins that register bug trackers may
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need a trailing / added to the base URL if one is not already there.
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(James Wesby, Andrew Cowie)
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Features
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* Added start_commit hook for mutable trees. (Jelmer Vernooij, #186422)
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* ``status`` now accepts ``--no-pending`` to show the status without
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listing pending merges, which speeds up the command a lot on large
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histories. (James Westby, #202830)
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* New ``post_change_branch_tip`` hook that is called after the
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branch tip is moved but while the branch is still write-locked.
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See the User Reference for signature details.
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(Ian Clatworthy, James Henstridge)
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* Reconfigure can convert a branch to be standalone or to use a shared
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repository. (Aaron Bentley)
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Improvements
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* The smart protocol now has support for setting branches' revision info
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directly. This should make operations like push slightly faster, and is a
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step towards server-side hooks. The new request method name is
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``Branch.set_last_revision_info``. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* ``bzr commit --fixes`` now recognises "gnome" as a tag by default.
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(James Westby, Andrew Cowie)
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* ``bzr switch`` will attempt to find branches to switch to relative to the
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current branch. E.g. ``bzr switch branchname`` will look for
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``current_branch/../branchname``. (Robert Collins, Jelmer Vernooij,
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Wouter van Heyst)
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* Diff is now more specific about execute-bit changes it describes
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(Chad Miller)
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* Fetching data over HTTP is a bit faster when urllib is used. This is done
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by forcing it to recv 64k at a time when reading lines in HTTP headers,
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rather than just 1 byte at a time. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* Log --short and --line are much faster when -r is not specified.
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(Aaron Bentley)
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* Merge is faster. We no longer check a file's existence unnecessarily
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when merging the execute bit. (Aaron Bentley)
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* ``bzr status`` on an explicit list of files no longer shows pending
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merges, making it much faster on large trees. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* The launchpad directory service now warns the user if they have not set
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their launchpad login and are trying to resolve a URL using it, just
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in case they want to do a write operation with it. (James Westby)
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* The smart protocol client is slightly faster, because it now only queries
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the server for the protocol version once per connection. Also, the HTTP
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transport will now automatically probe for and use a smart server if
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one is present. You can use the new ``nosmart+`` transport decorator
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to get the old behaviour. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* The ``version`` command takes a ``--short`` option to print just the
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version number, for easier use in scripts. (Martin Pool)
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* Various operations with revision specs and commands that calculate
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revnos and revision ids are faster. (John A. Meinel, Aaron Bentley)
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* Add ``root_client_path`` parameter to SmartWSGIApp and
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SmartServerRequest. This makes it possible to publish filesystem
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locations that don't exactly match URL paths. SmartServerRequest
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subclasses should use the new ``translate_client_path`` and
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``transport_from_client_path`` methods when dealing with paths received
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from a client to take this into account. (Andrew Bennetts, #124089)
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* ``bzr mv a b`` can be now used also to rename previously renamed
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directories, not only files. (Lukáš Lalinský, #107967)
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* ``bzr uncommit --local`` can now remove revisions from the local
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branch to be symmetric with ``bzr commit --local``.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #93412)
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* Don't ask for a password if there is no real terminal.
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(Alexander Belchenko, #69851)
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* Fix a bug causing a ValueError crash in ``parse_line_delta_iter`` when
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fetching revisions from a knit to pack repository or vice versa using
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bzr:// (including over http or ssh).
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(#208418, Andrew Bennetts, Martin Pool, Robert Collins)
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* Fixed ``_get_line`` in ``bzrlib.smart.medium``, which was buggy. Also
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fixed ``_get_bytes`` in the same module to use the push back buffer.
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These bugs had no known impact in normal use, but were problematic for
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developers working on the code, and were likely to cause real bugs sooner
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or later. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* Implement handling of basename parameter for DefaultMail. (James Westby)
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* Incompatibility with Paramiko versions newer than 1.7.2 was fixed.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #213425)
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* Launchpad locations (lp: URLs) can be pulled. (Aaron Bentley, #181945)
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* Merges that add files to deleted root directories complete. They
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do create conflicts. (Aaron Bentley, #210092)
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* vsftp's return ``550 RNFR command failed.`` supported.
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(Marcus Trautwig, #129786)
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* Improved documentation on send/merge relationship. (Peter Schuller)
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* Minor fixes to the User Guide. (Matthew Fuller)
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* Reduced the evangelism in the User Guide. (Ian Clatworthy)
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* Added Integrating with Bazaar document for developers (Martin Albisetti)
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* Attempting to pull data from a ghost aware repository (e.g. knits) into a
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non-ghost aware repository such as weaves will now fail if there are
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ghosts. (Robert Collins)
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* ``KnitVersionedFile`` no longer accepts an ``access_mode`` parameter, and
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now requires the ``index`` and ``access_method`` parameters to be
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supplied. A compatible shim has been kept in the new function
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``knit.make_file_knit``. (Robert Collins)
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* Log formatters must now provide log_revision instead of show and
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show_merge_revno methods. The latter had been deprecated since the 0.17
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release. (James Westby)
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* ``LoopbackSFTP`` is now called ``SocketAsChannelAdapter``.
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(Andrew Bennetts)
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* ``osutils.backup_file`` is removed. (Alexander Belchenko)
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* ``Repository.get_revision_graph`` is deprecated, with no replacement
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method. The method was size(history) and not desirable. (Robert Collins)
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* ``revision.revision_graph`` is deprecated, with no replacement function.
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The function was size(history) and not desirable. (Robert Collins)
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* ``Transport.get_shared_medium`` is deprecated. Use
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``Transport.get_smart_medium`` instead. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* ``VersionedFile`` factories now accept a get_scope parameter rather
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than using a call to ``transaction_finished``, allowing the removal of
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the fixed list of versioned files per repository. (Robert Collins)
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* ``VersionedFile.annotate_iter`` is deprecated. While in principle this
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allowed lower memory use, all users of annotations wanted full file
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annotations, and there is no storage format suitable for incremental
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line-by-line annotation. (Robert Collins)
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* ``VersionedFile.clone_text`` is deprecated. This performance optimisation
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is no longer used - reading the content of a file that is undergoing a
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file level merge to identical state on two branches is rare enough, and
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not expensive enough to special case. (Robert Collins)
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* ``VersionedFile.clear_cache`` and ``enable_cache`` are deprecated.
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These methods added significant complexity to the ``VersionedFile``
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implementation, but were only used for optimising fetches from knits -
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which can be done from outside the knit layer, or via a caching
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decorator. As knits are not the default format, the complexity is no
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longer worth paying. (Robert Collins)
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* ``VersionedFile.create_empty`` is removed. This method presupposed a
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sensible mapping to a transport for individual files, but pack backed
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versioned files have no such mapping. (Robert Collins)
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* ``VersionedFile.get_graph`` is deprecated, with no replacement method.
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The method was size(history) and not desirable. (Robert Collins)
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* ``VersionedFile.get_graph_with_ghosts`` is deprecated, with no
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replacement method. The method was size(history) and not desirable.
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(Robert Collins)
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* ``VersionedFile.get_parents`` is deprecated, please use
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``VersionedFile.get_parent_map``. (Robert Collins)
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* ``VersionedFile.get_sha1`` is deprecated, please use
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``VersionedFile.get_sha1s``. (Robert Collins)
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* ``VersionedFile.has_ghost`` is now deprecated, as it is both expensive
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and unused outside of a single test. (Robert Collins)
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* ``VersionedFile.iter_parents`` is now deprecated in favour of
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``get_parent_map`` which can be used to instantiate a Graph on a
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VersionedFile. (Robert Collins)
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* ``VersionedFileStore`` no longer uses the transaction parameter given
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to most methods; amongst other things this means that the
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get_weave_or_empty method no longer guarantees errors on a missing weave
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in a readonly transaction, and no longer caches versioned file instances
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which reduces memory pressure (but requires more careful management by
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callers to preserve performance). (Robert Collins)
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* New -Dselftest_debug flag disables clearing of the debug flags during
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tests. This is useful if you want to use e.g. -Dhpss to help debug a
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failing test. Be aware that using this feature is likely to cause
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spurious test failures if used with the full suite. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* selftest --load-list now uses a new more agressive test loader that will
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avoid loading unneeded modules and building their tests. Plugins can use
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this new loader by defining a load_tests function instead of a test_suite
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function. (a forthcoming patch will provide many examples on how to
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implement this).
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* The test suite takes much less memory to run, and is a bit faster. This
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* Added ``_build_client_protocol`` to ``_SmartClient``. (Andrew Bennetts)
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because of a missing ``try/finally`` block, it will give a warning but
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not automatically unlock itself. (Previously they did.) This
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* ``make dist`` target to build a release tarball, and also
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* The ``read_response_tuple`` method of ``SmartClientRequestProtocol*``
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classes will now raise ``UnknownSmartMethod`` when appropriate, so that
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* ``set_make_working_trees`` is now implemented provided on all repository
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