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* New option ``--overwrite-tags`` for ``bzr pull`` and ``bzr push``.
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* Implement ``ResponseFile.readline`` and ``ReponseFile.tell``,
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colocated branches, documentation fixes and more.
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* Add short option alias ``-N`` for ``--no-recurse``.
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* ``bzr rmbranch`` now supports removing colocated branches.
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* Document "bzr lp-propose", "bzr register-branch" and
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* Generate ``ENVIRONMENT`` section in bzr(1) from known environment variable
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list rather than hardcoding. (Jelmer Vernooij, #197618)
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* Prevent lines of command descriptions starting with a dot to
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* Properly format apostrophes in manual page. (Jelmer Vernooij, #234771)
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``branch.PullResult.__int__`` deprecated in 2.3.0,
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``branch.PushResult.__int__`` deprecated in 2.3.0,
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``branch.BranchFormat.get_default_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
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``branch.BranchFormat.get_formats`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
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``branch.BranchFormat.set_default_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
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``branch.BranchFormat.register_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
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``branch.BranchFormat.unregister_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
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``bzrdir.BzrDir.generate_backup_name`` deprecated in 2.3.0,
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``bzrdir.BzrProber.register_bzrdir_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
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``bzrdir.BzrProber.unregister_bzrdir_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
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``config.Config.get_editor`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
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``hooks.known_hooks_key_to_parent_and_attribute`` deprecated in 2.3,
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``hooks.Hooks.create_hook`` deprecated in 2.4,
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``inventory.Inventory.__contains__`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
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``merge.Merge3Merger.scalar_three_way`` deprecated in 2.2.0,
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``merge.Merge3Merger.fix_root`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
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``transform.TreeTransformBase.has_named_child`` deprecated in 2.3.0,
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``transform.get_backup_name`` deprecated in 2.3.0,
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``workingtree.WorkingTreeFormat.register_extra_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
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``workingtree.WorkingTreeFormat.unregister_extra_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
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* Remove deprecated ``Branch.set_revision_history`` and
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``Branch.revision_history`` methods and the ``set_rh``
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hook on ``Branch``. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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spurious test failures and changes to the way things should be tested.
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* ``Tree.path2id`` now once again accepts a list of path elements
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* Turn config option expansion on by default. The only options for which
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this should be disabled are templates which should already have used
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