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.. New commands, options, etc that users may wish to try out.
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* A ``from_unicode`` parameter can be specified when registering a config
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option. This implements boolean and integer config options when the
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provided ``bool_from_store`` and ``int_from_store`` are used.
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.. Improvements to existing commands, especially improved performance
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or memory usage, or better results.
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.. Fixes for situations where bzr would previously crash or give incorrect
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or undesirable results.
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.. Improved or updated documentation.
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.. Changes that may require updates in plugins or other code that uses
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.. Major internal changes, unlikely to be visible to users or plugin
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developers, but interesting for bzr developers.
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.. Fixes and changes that are only relevant to bzr's test framework and
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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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This is the second beta of the 2.5 series, leading to a 2.5.0 release in
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February 2012. Beta releases are suitable for everyday use but may cause some
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incompatibilities with plugins.
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connections handling for ``bzr serve``, a ``development-colo`` experimental
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format to flesh out the colocated branches UI, better support for foreign
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formats, enhancements to the config framework and more.
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This release includes all bug fixed in previous series known at the time of
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External Compatibility Breaks
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* A new ``-O`` standard option (common to all commands) have been added. It
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provides a value for a config option in the ``-Oname=value`` form that
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takes precedence over all definitions found in config files. It can be
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used multiple times to override different options.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #491196)
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* ``bzr log`` now has an option called ``--omit-merges`` to omit
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those commits that merged branches, i.e. those having more than one
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``--include-merges`` has been renamed to ``--include-merged``.
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The old name of the command line option will still be accepted.
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The name change also affects ``bzr missing``.
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* ``bzr serve`` will now disconnect clients if they have not issued an RPC
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request after 5minutes. On POSIX platforms, this will also happen for
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``bzr serve --inet``. This can be overridden with the configuration
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variable ``serve.client_timeout`` or in the command line parameter
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``bzr serve --client-timeout=X``. Further, it is possible to request
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``bzr serve [--inet]`` to shutdown gracefully by sending SIGHUP. It will
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finish the current request, and then close the connection.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #824797, #795025)
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* The new experimental format ``development-colo`` supports colocated
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branches. This format will eventually be merged back into the ``2a``
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format when it has stabilized and there is adequate UI support for
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #831481)
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* Fixed a bug where ``bzr tags -r x..y`` loaded the branch history once for
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every revision in the range; it's now much faster. (Vincent Ladeuil, #857335)
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* ``bzr info -v`` can now be run against branches that don't support
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``last_revision_info``, in which case the branch information will simply
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not be displayed. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* ``bzr shelve`` can now be used in emacs shells as the input handling is
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turned into a line-based one when ``INSIDE_EMACS`` is set (which is the
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case for all recent emacs versions). (Vincent Ladeuil, #856261)
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* ``bzr tags`` can now be used against remote repositories that do
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not provide access to the revision graph. (Jelmer Vernooij, #858942)
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* ``bzr update PATH`` will stop if you seem to be asking it to update
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anything less than a whole tree, because that's not supported by ``bzr``'s
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concept that the whole tree has a single basis revision. Previously, it
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would go ahead and update the whole tree, which was surprising.
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(Martin Pool, #557886)
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* Don't crash if ``bzrlib.initialize()`` has not been called while accessing
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configs. (Vincent Ladeuil, #863401)
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* Redirects between http and https no longer discard path information
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in some cases. (Jelmer Vernooij, #853765)
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* The ``--overwrite`` argument to ``bzr push`` and ``bzr pull`` no longer
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reports all tags as changed. (Jelmer Vernooij, #845396)
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* ``WorkingTree.get_file_mtime`` now raises NoSuchId if a file id is
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specified that is unknown. (Jelmer Vernooij, #847435)
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* ``Branch.get_revision_delta`` has been deprecated. Use
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``Repository.get_revision_delta`` instead. (Jelmer Vernooij, #859712)
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* Plugins that implement custom protocols for ``bzr serve`` should now
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also take an argument ``timeout``. This is used by the the bzr protocol
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to close a connection if a client has been idle for more than X seconds.
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(Default 5minutes). (John Arbash Meinel)
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* ``Repository.fileids_altered_by_revision_ids`` has been moved to
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``VersionedFileRepository`` and is no longer part of the standard
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``Repository`` interface. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* The argument ``include_merges`` to ``missing.find_unmerged`` has
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been renamed to ``include_merged``. The old name is still supported
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for now but will cause a deprecation warning. (Martin von Gagern)
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* The new method ``ControlDirFormat.is_initializable()`` returns a boolean
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indicating whether or not it is possible to use any of the
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initialization methods of that format to create a new control dir.
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* ``Branch`` objects can now use a config stack with the newly introduced
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``get_config_stack()``. Both ``get_config`` and ``get_config_stack`` can
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be used for the same branch but it's recommended to stick to one for a
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* Test scripts can now use ``bzr shelve`` and provide their input as
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complete lines. (Vincent Ladeuil, #856261)
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* Really corrupt the pack file without depending on a special length or value.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #807032)
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This is the first beta of the 2.5 series, leading up to a 2.5.0
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release in February 2012.
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This release includes better support for gpg signing, better support for
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i18n (mostly command help and error messages), more options to filter ``bzr
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log`` output, more support for colocated branches ("location,branch=XXX"
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syntax), better feedback on updated tags for various commands, faster
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branching into an empty repository, enhancements to the config framework and
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incompatibilities with plugins. Some plugins may need small updates to work
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* A ``from_unicode`` parameter can be specified when registering a config
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option. This implements boolean, integer and list config options when the
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* Add a config option gpg_signing_key for setting which GPG key should
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be used to sign commits. Also default to using the gpg user identity
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which matches user_email() as set by whoami. (Jonathan Riddell,
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which matches user_email() as set by whoami.
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(Jonathan Riddell, #68501)
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* An ``invalid`` parameter can be specified when registering a config option
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to decide what should be done when invalid values are
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encountered. 'warning' and 'eeror' will respectively emit a warning and
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encountered. 'warning' and 'error' will respectively emit a warning and
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ignore the value or errors out. (Vincent Ladeuil)
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* bzr add now skips large files in recursive mode. The default "large"
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size is 20MB, and is configurable via the add.maximum_file_size
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option. A value of 0 disables skipping. Named items passed to add are
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never skipped. (Shannon Weyrick, #54624)
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* ``bzr help configuration/<option>`` display the help for ``option`` for
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all registered configuration options. (Vincent Ladeuil, #747050)
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* bzr log -m now matches message, author, committer and bugs instead
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of just matching the message. --message keeps its original meaning,
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while --match-message, --match-author, --match-committer and
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--match-bugs match each of those fields.
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* ``bzr log -m`` now matches message, author, committer and bugs instead
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of just matching the message. ``--message`` keeps its original meaning,
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while ``--match-message, --match-author, --match-committer`` and
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``--match-bugs`` match each of those fields. (Jacek Sieka)
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* ``config.Option`` can now declare ``default_from_env``, a list of
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environment variables to get a default value from. (Vincent Ladeuil)
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* Relative local paths can now be specified in URL syntax by using the
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"file:" prefix. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* Report commits signed with expired keys in "verify-signatures".
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(Jonathan Riddell, #804254)
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* bzr add now skips large files in recursive mode. The default "large"
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size is 20MB, and is configurable via the add.maximum_file_size
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option. A value of 0 disables skipping. Named items passed to add are
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never skipped. (Shannon Weyrick, #54624)
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* bzr now ships with translations for command help. (Jonathan
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Riddell, INADA Naoki, #83941)
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* bzr now ships with translations for command errors. (Jonathan
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Riddell, INADA Naoki)
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* Translations are now enabled for command help, errors and globally
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for any message using ``gettext`` given on output. (Jonathan Riddell,
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.. Improvements to existing commands, especially improved performance
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or memory usage, or better results.
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* ``bzr add`` will now warn about nested subtrees that are skipped.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #187342)
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* ``bzr commit -m ''`` can now be used to force an empty commit message.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #605814)
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* Do not run i18n initialisation twice. (Jonathan Riddell)
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* Install translation .mo files. (Jonathan Riddell)
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* Locations printed by ``bzr upgrade`` are now formatted before display.
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(Jelmer Vernooij)
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* Install translation .mo files. (Jonathan Riddell)
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* Do not run i18n initialisation twice. (Jonathan Riddell)
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* ``Repository.get_parent_map`` now estimates the size of the returned
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content more accurately. This means that we get closer to the desired
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64kB/request. For repositories converted from svn, this can be an
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improvement of approx 5:1 in round trips to discover the whole history.
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* Support a ``bugtracker`` option which is used by ``bzr commit --fixes``
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if no bug tracker was specified on the command line.
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* Use ``gettext.NullTranslations`` in i18n to allow use of i18n even when
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translations are not turned on. (Jonathan Riddell)
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.. Fixes for situations where bzr would previously crash or give incorrect
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or undesirable results.
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* ``bzr commit`` now correctly reports missing files as "removed", not
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"modified". (Jelmer Vernooij, #553955)
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* The pull command will now always use separate connections for the
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case where the destination is a heavyweight checkout of some remote
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branch on the same host as the source branch.
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(Martin von Gagern, #483661)
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* ``bzr reconfigure`` will now allow multiple non-conflicting requests
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in a single invocation, e.g. ``--branch`` and ``--use-shared``.
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(Martin von Gagern, #842993)
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* A call to CHKInventory's filter-method will not result in a
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DuplicateFileId error, if you move a subfolder and change a file in
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.. Improved or updated documentation.
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* Release instructions refreshed. (Vincent Ladeuil)
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.. Changes that may require updates in plugins or other code that uses
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* ``BranchFormat.initialize`` now takes a ``append_revisions_only``
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argument. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* ``Branch._get_checkout_format`` now takes a ``lightweight`` argument
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which indicates if the format should be for a lightweight or a
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heavyweight checkout. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* ``ControlDir.create_branch`` now takes a ``append_revisions_only`` argument.
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* New class ``URL`` in ``bzrlib.utils`` for managing parsed URLs.
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(Jelmer Vernooij)
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* New method ``Config.get_user_option_as_int_from_SI`` added for expanding a
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value in SI format (i.e. "20MB", "1GB") into its integer equivalent.
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* New method ``InterTree.file_content_matches`` which checks that
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two files in different trees have the same contents.
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* New method ``Tree.get_file_verifier`` which allows tree implementations
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to return non-sha1 checksums to verify files.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #720831)
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* New methods ``get_transport_from_path`` and ``get_transport_from_url``
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have been added that only support opening from a path or a URL,
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unlike ``get_transport``. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* New method ``Tree.get_file_verifier`` which allows tree implementations
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to return non-sha1 checksums to verify files.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #720831)
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* New method ``InterTree.file_content_matches`` which checks that
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two files in different trees have the same contents.
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* New registry ``OptionRegistry`` specialized for configuration options.
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(Vincent Ladeuil)
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``UIFactory.warn_experimental_format_fetch`` in favor of
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``UIFactory.show_user_warning``. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* ``Tags`` containers can now declare whether they support versioned
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tags and whether tags can refer to ghost tags.
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* ``Tags.merge_to`` now returns a dictionary with the updated tags
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and a set of conflicts, rather than just conflicts. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* There is a new class `ContentFilterTree` that provides a facade for
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content filtering. The `filtered` parameter to `export` is deprecated
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in favor of passing a filtered tree, and the specific exporter plugins
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no longer support it.
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* New method ``Config.get_user_option_as_int_from_SI`` added for expanding a
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value in SI format (i.e. "20MB", "1GB") into its integer equivalent.
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* ``Tags`` containers can now declare whether they support versioned
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tags and whether tags can refer to ghost tags.
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* ``Tags.merge_to`` now returns a dictionary with the updated tags
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and a set of conflicts, rather than just conflicts. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* ``Transport`` now has a ``_parsed_url`` attribute instead of
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separate ``_user``, ``_password``, ``_port``, ``_scheme``, ``_host``
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and ``_path`` attributes. Proxies are provided for the moment but
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may be removed in the future. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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.. Major internal changes, unlikely to be visible to users or plugin
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developers, but interesting for bzr developers.
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* A new debug flags ``hpss_client_no_vfs`` will now cause the HPSS client
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* A new debug flag ``hpss_client_no_vfs`` will now cause the HPSS client
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to raise a ``HpssVfsRequestNotAllowed`` exception when a VFS request
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is attempted. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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