5
* New 'bzr commit --strict' option refuses to commit if there are
6
any unknown files in the tree. To commit, make sure all files are
7
either ignored, added, or deleted. (Michael Ellerman)
9
* The config directory is now ~/.bazaar, and there is a single file
10
~/.bazaar/bazaar.conf storing email, editor and other preferences.
13
* 'bzr add' no longer takes a --verbose option, and a --quiet option
14
has been added that suppresses all output.
16
* Improved zsh completion support in contrib/zsh, from Clint
19
* Builtin 'bzr annotate' command, by Martin Pool with improvements from
22
* 'bzr check' now accepts -v for verbose reporting, and checks for
23
ghosts in the branch. (Robert Collins)
25
* New command 're-sign' which will regenerate the gpg signature for
26
a revision. (Robert Collins)
28
* If you set check_signatures=require for a path in
29
~/.bazaar/branches.conf then bzr will invoke your
30
gpg_signing_command (defaults to gpg) and record a digital signature
31
of your commit. (Robert Collins)
33
* 'bzr pull' now accepts '--clobber' which will discard local changes
34
and make this branch identical to the source branch. (Robert Collins)
38
* The 'bzr selftest --pattern' option for has been removed, now
39
test specifiers on the command line can be simple strings, or
40
regexps, or both. (Robert Collins)
42
* Passing -v to selftest will now show the time each test took to
43
complete, which will aid in analysing performance regressions and
44
related questions. (Robert Collins)
46
* 'bzr selftest' runs all tests, even if one feels, unless '--one'
47
is given. (Martin Pool)
49
* There is a new method for TestCaseInTempDir, assertFileEqual, which
50
will check that a given content is equal to the content of the named
51
file. (Robert Collins)
55
* New 'testament' command and concept for making gpg-signatures
56
of revisions that are not tied to a particular internal
57
representation. (Martin Pool).
59
* Per-revision properties ('revprops') as key-value associated
60
strings on each revision created when the revision is committed.
61
Intended mainly for the use of external tools. (Martin Pool).
63
* Config options have moved from bzrlib.osutils to bzrlib.config.
66
* Improved command line option definitions allowing explanations
67
for individual options, among other things. Contributed by
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* Config options have moved from bzrlib.osutils to bzrlib.config.
71
Configuration is now done via the config.Config interface:
72
Depending on whether you have a Branch, a Location or no information
73
available, construct a *Config, and use its signature_checking,
74
username and user_email methods. (Robert Collins)
76
* Plugins are now loaded under bzrlib.plugins, not bzrlib.plugin, and
77
they are made available for other plugins to use. You should not
78
import other plugins during the __init__ of your plugin though, as
79
no ordering is guaranteed, and the plugins directory is not on the
80
python path. (Robert Collins)
82
* Branch.relpath has been moved to WorkingTree.relpath. WorkingTree no
83
no longer takes an inventory, rather it takes an option branch
84
parameter, and if None is given will open the branch at basedir
85
implicitly. (Robert Collins)
87
* Cleaner exception structure and error reporting. Suggested by
88
Scott James Remnant. (Martin Pool)
90
* Branch.remove has been moved to WorkingTree, which has also gained
91
lock_read, lock_write and unlock methods for convenience. (Robert
94
* Two decorators, needs_read_lock and needs_write_lock have been added
95
to the branch module. Use these to cause a function to run in a
96
read or write lock respectively. (Robert Collins)
98
* Branch.open_containing now returns a tuple (Branch, relative-path),
99
which allows direct access to the common case of 'get me this file
100
from its branch'. (Robert Collins)
102
* 'pull' has been factored out of the command as WorkingTree.pull().
103
A new option to WorkingTree.pull has been added, clobber, which will
104
ignore diverged history and pull anyway.
107
* config.Config has a 'get_user_option' call that accepts an option name.
108
This will be looked up in branches.conf and bazaar.conf as normal.
109
It is intended that this be used by plugins to support options -
110
options of built in programs should have specific methods on the config.
113
* merge.merge_inner now has tempdir as an optional parameter. (Robert
116
* Tree.kind is not recorded at the top level of the hierarchy, as it was
117
missing on EmptyTree, leading to a bug with merge on EmptyTrees.
122
* Better handling of branches in directories with non-ascii names.
123
(Joel Rosdahl, Panagiotis Papadakos)
129
* Fix problem in pulling over http from machines that do not
130
allow directories to be listed.
132
* Avoid harmless warning about invalid hash cache after
133
upgrading branch format.
137
* Avoid some unnecessary http operations in branch and pull.
144
* 'bzr branch' over http initially gives a very high estimate
145
of completion time but it should fall as the first few
146
revisions are pulled in. branch is still slow on
147
high-latency connections.
151
* bzr-man.py has been updated to work again. Contributed by
154
* Locking is now done with fcntl.lockf which works with NFS
155
file systems. Contributed by Harald Meland.
157
* When a merge encounters a file that has been deleted on
158
one side and modified on the other, the old contents are
159
written out to foo.BASE and foo.SIDE, where SIDE is this
160
or OTHER. Contributed by Aaron Bentley.
162
* Export was choosing incorrect file paths for the content of
163
the tarball, this has been fixed by Aaron Bentley.
165
* Commit will no longer commit without a log message, an
166
error is returned instead. Contributed by Jelmer Vernooij.
168
* If you commit a specific file in a sub directory, any of its
169
parent directories that are added but not listed will be
170
automatically included. Suggested by Michael Ellerman.
172
* bzr commit and upgrade did not correctly record new revisions
173
for files with only a change to their executable status.
174
bzr will correct this when it encounters it. Fixed by
177
* HTTP tests now force off the use of http_proxy for the duration.
178
Contributed by Gustavo Niemeyer.
180
* Fix problems in merging weave-based branches that have
181
different partial views of history.
183
* Symlink support: working with symlinks when not in the root of a
184
bzr tree was broken, patch from Scott James Remnant.
189
* 'branch' now accepts a --basis parameter which will take advantage
190
of local history when making a new branch. This allows faster
191
branching of remote branches. Contributed by Aaron Bentley.
193
* New tree format based on weave files, called version 5.
194
Existing branches can be upgraded to this format using
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* Symlinks are now versionable. Initial patch by
198
Erik Toubro Nielsen, updated to head by Robert Collins.
200
* Executable bits are tracked on files. Patch from Gustavo
203
* 'bzr status' now shows unknown files inside a selected directory.
204
Patch from Heikki Paajanen.
206
* Merge conflicts are recorded in .bzr. Two new commands 'conflicts'
207
and 'resolve' have needed added, which list and remove those
208
merge conflicts respectively. A conflicted tree cannot be committed
209
in. Contributed by Aaron Bentley.
211
* 'rm' is now an alias for 'remove'.
213
* Stores now split out their content in a single byte prefixed hash,
214
dropping the density of files per directory by 256. Contributed by
217
* 'bzr diff -r branch:URL' will now perform a diff between two branches.
218
Contributed by Robert Collins.
220
* 'bzr log' with the default formatter will show merged revisions,
221
indented to the right. Initial implementation contributed by Gustavo
222
Niemeyer, made incremental by Robert Collins.
227
* Test case failures have the exception printed after the log
228
for your viewing pleasure.
230
* InventoryEntry is now an abstract base class, use one of the
231
concrete InventoryDirectory etc classes instead.
233
* Branch raises an UnsupportedFormatError when it detects a
234
bzr branch it cannot understand. This allows for precise
235
handling of such circumstances.
240
* Removed testsweet module so that tests can be run after
241
bzr installed by 'bzr selftest'.
243
* 'bzr selftest' command-line arguments can now be partial ids
244
of tests to run, e.g. 'bzr selftest test_weave'
251
* Fixed "branch -r" option.
253
* Fix remote access to branches containing non-compressed history.
256
* Better reliability of http server tests. (John Arbash-Meinel)
258
* Merge graph maximum distance calculation fix. (Aaron Bentley)
260
* Various minor bug in windows support have been fixed, largely in the
261
test suite. Contributed by Alexander Belchenko.
265
* Status now accepts a -r argument to give status between chosen
266
revisions. Contributed by Heikki Paajanen.
268
* Revision arguments no longer use +/-/= to control ranges, instead
269
there is a 'before' namespace, which limits the successive namespace.
270
For example '$ bzr log -r date:yesterday..before:date:today' will
271
select everything from yesterday and before today. Contributed by
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* There is now a bzr.bat file created by distutils when building on
275
Windows. Contributed by Alexander Belchenko.
279
* Removed uuid() as it was unused.
281
* Improved 'fetch' code for pulling revisions from one branch into
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another (used by pull, merged, etc.)
289
* Adding a file whose parent directory is not versioned will
290
implicitly add the parent, and so on up to the root. This means
291
you should never need to explictly add a directory, they'll just
292
get added when you add a file in the directory. Contributed by
295
* Ignore .DS_Store (contains Mac metadata) by default. Patch from
298
* If you set BZR_EDITOR in the environment, it is checked in
299
preference to EDITOR and the config file for the interactive commit
300
editing program. Related to this is a bugfix where a missing program
301
set in EDITOR would cause editing to fail, now the fallback program
302
for the operating system is still tried.
304
* Files that are not directories/symlinks/regular files will no longer
305
cause bzr to fail, it will just ignore them by default. You cannot add
306
them to the tree though - they are not versionable.
311
* Refactor xml packing/unpacking.
315
* Fixed 'bzr mv' by Ollie Rutherfurd.
317
* Fixed strange error when trying to access a nonexistent http
320
* Make sure that the hashcache gets written out if it can't be
326
* Various Windows fixes from Ollie Rutherfurd.
328
* Quieten warnings about locking; patch from Matt Lavin.
335
* ``bzr shell-complete`` command contributed by Clint Adams to
336
help with intelligent shell completion.
338
* New expert command ``bzr find-merge-base`` for debugging merges.
343
* Much better merge support.
345
* merge3 conflicts are now reported with markers like '<<<<<<<'
346
(seven characters) which is the same as CVS and pleases things
352
* ``bzr upgrade`` no longer fails when trying to fix trees that
353
mention revisions that are not present.
355
* Fixed bugs in listing plugins from ``bzr plugins``.
357
* Fix case of $EDITOR containing options for the editor.
359
* Fix log -r refusing to show the last revision.
360
(Patch from Goffredo Baroncelli.)
365
* ``bzr log --show-ids`` shows the revision ids of all parents.
367
* Externally provided commands on your $BZRPATH no longer need
368
to recognize --bzr-usage to work properly, and can just handle
374
* Changed trace messages to go through the standard logging
375
framework, so that they can more easily be redirected by
384
* Python plugins, automatically loaded from the directories on
385
BZR_PLUGIN_PATH or ~/.bzr.conf/plugins by default.
387
* New 'bzr mkdir' command.
389
* Commit mesage is fetched from an editor if not given on the
390
command line; patch from Torsten Marek.
392
* ``bzr log -m FOO`` displays commits whose message matches regexp
395
* ``bzr add`` with no arguments adds everything under the current directory.
397
* ``bzr mv`` does move or rename depending on its arguments, like
400
* ``bzr missing`` command shows a summary of the differences
401
between two trees. (Merged from John Arbash-Meinel.)
403
* An email address for commits to a particular tree can be
404
specified by putting it into .bzr/email within a branch. (Based
405
on a patch from Heikki Paajanen.)
410
* Faster working tree operations.
415
* 3rd-party modules shipped with bzr are copied within the bzrlib
416
python package, so that they can be installed by the setup
417
script without clashing with anything already existing on the
418
system. (Contributed by Gustavo Niemeyer.)
420
* Moved plugins directory to bzrlib/, so that there's a standard
421
plugin directory which is not only installed with bzr itself but
422
is also available when using bzr from the development tree.
423
BZR_PLUGIN_PATH and DEFAULT_PLUGIN_PATH are then added to the
424
standard plugins directory.
426
* When exporting to a tarball with ``bzr export --format tgz``, put
427
everything under a top directory rather than dumping it into the
428
current directory. This can be overridden with the ``--root``
429
option. Patch from William Dodé and John Meinel.
431
* New ``bzr upgrade`` command to upgrade the format of a branch,
432
replacing ``bzr check --update``.
434
* Files within store directories are no longer marked readonly on
437
* Changed ``bzr log`` output to a more compact form suggested by
438
John A Meinel. Old format is available with the ``--long`` or
439
``-l`` option, patched by William Dodé.
441
* By default the commit command refuses to record a revision with
442
no changes unless the ``--unchanged`` option is given.
444
* The ``--no-plugins``, ``--profile`` and ``--builtin`` command
445
line options must come before the command name because they
446
affect what commands are available; all other options must come
447
after the command name because their interpretation depends on
450
* ``branch`` and ``clone`` added as aliases for ``branch``.
452
* Default log format is back to the long format; the compact one
453
is available with ``--short``.
458
* Fix bugs in committing only selected files or within a subdirectory.
465
* ``bzr`` with no command now shows help rather than giving an
466
error. Suggested by Michael Ellerman.
468
* ``bzr status`` output format changed, because svn-style output
469
doesn't really match the model of bzr. Now files are grouped by
470
status and can be shown with their IDs. ``bzr status --all``
471
shows all versioned files and unknown files but not ignored files.
473
* ``bzr log`` runs from most-recent to least-recent, the reverse
474
of the previous order. The previous behaviour can be obtained
475
with the ``--forward`` option.
477
* ``bzr inventory`` by default shows only filenames, and also ids
478
if ``--show-ids`` is given, in which case the id is the second
484
* New 'bzr whoami --email' option shows only the email component
485
of the user identification, from Jo Vermeulen.
487
* New ``bzr ignore PATTERN`` command.
489
* Nicer error message for broken pipe, interrupt and similar
490
conditions that don't indicate an internal error.
492
* Add ``.*.sw[nop] .git .*.tmp *,v`` to default ignore patterns.
494
* Per-branch locks keyed on ``.bzr/branch-lock``, available in
495
either read or write mode.
497
* New option ``bzr log --show-ids`` shows revision and file ids.
499
* New usage ``bzr log FILENAME`` shows only revisions that
502
* Changed format for describing changes in ``bzr log -v``.
504
* New option ``bzr commit --file`` to take a message from a file,
505
suggested by LarstiQ.
507
* New syntax ``bzr status [FILE...]`` contributed by Bartosz
508
Oler. File may be in a branch other than the working directory.
510
* ``bzr log`` and ``bzr root`` can be given an http URL instead of
513
* Commands can now be defined by external programs or scripts
514
in a directory on $BZRPATH.
516
* New "stat cache" avoids reading the contents of files if they
517
haven't changed since the previous time.
519
* If the Python interpreter is too old, try to find a better one
520
or give an error. Based on a patch from Fredrik Lundh.
522
* New optional parameter ``bzr info [BRANCH]``.
524
* New form ``bzr commit SELECTED`` to commit only selected files.
526
* New form ``bzr log -r FROM:TO`` shows changes in selected
527
range; contributed by John A Meinel.
529
* New option ``bzr diff --diff-options 'OPTS'`` allows passing
530
options through to an external GNU diff.
532
* New option ``bzr add --no-recurse`` to add a directory but not
535
* ``bzr --version`` now shows more information if bzr is being run
541
* Fixed diff format so that added and removed files will be
542
handled properly by patch. Fix from Lalo Martins.
544
* Various fixes for files whose names contain spaces or other
550
* Converted black-box test suites from Bourne shell into Python;
551
now run using ``./testbzr``. Various structural improvements to
554
* testbzr by default runs the version of bzr found in the same
555
directory as the tests, or the one given as the first parameter.
557
* testbzr also runs the internal tests, so the only command
558
required to check is just ``./testbzr``.
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* testbzr requires python2.4, but can be used to test bzr running
561
under a different version.
563
* Tests added for many other changes in this release.
568
* Included ElementTree library upgraded to 1.2.6 by Fredrik Lundh.
570
* Refactor command functions into Command objects based on HCT by
573
* Better help messages for many commands.
575
* Expose bzrlib.open_tracefile() to start the tracefile; until
576
this is called trace messages are just discarded.
578
* New internal function find_touching_revisions() and hidden
579
command touching-revisions trace the changes to a given file.
581
* Simpler and faster compare_inventories() function.
583
* bzrlib.open_tracefile() takes a tracefilename parameter.
585
* New AtomicFile class.
587
* New developer commands ``added``, ``modified``.
592
* Cope on Windows on python2.3 by using the weaker random seed.
593
2.4 is now only recommended.
600
* 'bzr diff' optionally takes a list of files to diff. Still a bit
601
basic. Patch from QuantumG.
603
* More default ignore patterns.
605
* New 'bzr log --verbose' shows a list of files changed in the
606
changeset. Patch from Sebastian Cote.
608
* Roll over ~/.bzr.log if it gets too large.
610
* Command abbreviations 'ci', 'st', 'stat', '?' based on a patch
613
* New 'bzr help commands' based on a patch from Denys Duchier.
618
* User email is determined by looking at $BZREMAIL or ~/.bzr.email
619
or $EMAIL. All are decoded by the locale preferred encoding.
620
If none of these are present user@hostname is used. The host's
621
fully-qualified name is not used because that tends to fail when
622
there are DNS problems.
624
* New 'bzr whoami' command instead of username user-email.
629
* Make commit safe for hardlinked bzr trees.
631
* Some Unicode/locale fixes.
633
* Partial workaround for difflib.unified_diff not handling
634
trailing newlines properly.
639
* Allow docstrings for help to be in PEP0257 format. Patch from
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* More tests in test.sh.
644
* Write profile data to a temporary file not into working
645
directory and delete it when done.
647
* Smaller .bzr.log with process ids.
652
* Fix opening of ~/.bzr.log on Windows. Patch from Andrew
655
* Some improvements in handling paths on Windows, based on a patch
663
* New "directories" internal command lists versioned directories
666
* Can now say "bzr commit --help".
668
* New "rename" command to rename one file to a different name
671
* New "move" command to move one or more files into a different
674
* New "renames" command lists files renamed since base revision.
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* New cat command contributed by janmar.
680
* .bzr.log is placed in $HOME (not pwd) and is always written in
681
UTF-8. (Probably not a completely good long-term solution, but
686
* Workaround for difflib bug in Python 2.3 that causes an
687
exception when comparing empty files. Reported by Erik Toubro
692
* Refactored inventory storage to insert a root entry at the top.
696
* Start of shell-based black-box testing in test.sh.
703
* Win32 fixes from Steve Brown.
706
bzr-0.0.2 "black cube" 2005-03-31
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* Default ignore list extended (see bzrlib/__init__.py).
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* Patterns in .bzrignore are now added to the default ignore list,
713
rather than replacing it.
715
* Ignore list isn't reread for every file.
719
* Reinstate the 'bzr check' command to check invariants of the
722
* New 'ignored' command lists which files are ignored and why;
723
'deleted' lists files deleted in the current working tree.
725
* Performance improvements.
727
* New global --profile option.
729
* Ignore patterns like './config.h' now correctly match files in
730
the root directory only.
737
* More information from info command.
739
* Can now say "bzr help COMMAND" for more detailed help.
741
* Less file flushing and faster performance when writing logs and
742
committing to stores.
744
* More useful verbose output from some commands.
748
* Fix inverted display of 'R' and 'M' during 'commit -v'.
752
* Include a subset of ElementTree-1.2.20040618 to make
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* Fix time.localtime call to work with Python 2.3 (the minimum
759
bzr-0.0.0.69 2005-03-22
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* First public release.
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* Storage of local versions: init, add, remove, rm, info, log,
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:2.3.5: NOT RELEASED YET
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External Compatibility Breaks
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.. These may require users to change the way they use Bazaar.
21
.. New commands, options, etc that users may wish to try out.
26
.. Improvements to existing commands, especially improved performance
27
or memory usage, or better results.
32
.. Fixes for situations where bzr would previously crash or give incorrect
33
or undesirable results.
35
* Cope cleanly with buggy HTTP proxies that close the socket in the middle
36
of a multipart response. (Martin Pool, #198646).
38
* cStringIO is now unconditionally imported in ``bzrlib.config``.
39
(Jelmer Vernooij, #905361)
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* Fix "Unprintable exception" error when a RetryWithNewPacks error is
42
displayed. (Andrew Bennetts)
47
.. Improved or updated documentation.
52
.. Changes that may require updates in plugins or other code that uses
58
.. Major internal changes, unlikely to be visible to users or plugin
59
developers, but interesting for bzr developers.
64
.. Fixes and changes that are only relevant to bzr's test framework and
65
suite. This can include new facilities for writing tests, fixes to
66
spurious test failures and changes to the way things should be tested.
72
:Codename: One and counting
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This is a bugfix release. Upgrading is recommended for all users of earlier
78
This mainly fixes bug #786980 which blocked the SRU process for Ubuntu Natty.
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External Compatibility Breaks
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*****************************
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.. These may require users to change the way they use Bazaar.
88
.. New commands, options, etc that users may wish to try out.
93
.. Improvements to existing commands, especially improved performance
94
or memory usage, or better results.
96
* Tweak an RPC implementation for ``Repository.get_parent_map``, it was
97
doing an inefficient ``small_set.difference_update(large_set)`` when we
98
can do ``small_set = small_set.difference(large_set)``. This speeds up
99
discovery time by about 10%. (John Arbash Meinel)
104
.. Fixes for situations where bzr would previously crash or give incorrect
105
or undesirable results.
107
* Accept some differences for ``bound_location`` from the config files that
108
were leading to a 'ReadOnlyError: A write attempt was made in a read only
109
transaction' error. (Vincent Ladeuil, #786980)
111
* Don't fail with traceback if `bzr serve` is running as a service on Windows,
112
and there is no USERNAME, nor BZR_EMAIL or other whoami-related environment
113
variables set. (Alexander Belchenko, Bug #660174)
118
.. Improved or updated documentation.
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* Updated the "Using stacked branches" section of the user guide to
121
describe committing to stacked branches and expanded its discussion of
122
pushing a stacked branch. (Andrew Bennetts)
127
.. Changes that may require updates in plugins or other code that uses
133
.. Major internal changes, unlikely to be visible to users or plugin
134
developers, but interesting for bzr developers.
139
.. Fixes and changes that are only relevant to bzr's test framework and
140
suite. This can include new facilities for writing tests, fixes to
141
spurious test failures and changes to the way things should be tested.
143
* Remove the deprecation decorators for ``failUnlessExists`` and
144
``failIfExists``. The deprecation "will" occur in 2.4, not
145
before. Providing the wrappers is enough as far as 2.3 is concerned.
146
(Vincent Ladeuil #794960)
153
This is a bugfix release. Upgrading is recommended for all users of earlier
156
This fixed a bug in the test suite triggered by python-2.7 deprecating some
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* Stop using `failIf`, `failUnless`, `failIfEqual`, etc, that give
163
`PendingDeprecationWarnings` on Python2.7.
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(Martin Pool, #760435)
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This is a bugfix release. Upgrading is recommended for all users of earlier
175
This was never released due to bug #760435 interrupting the release process by
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breaking the test suite under python-2.7 on natty.
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External Compatibility Breaks
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*****************************
191
* Getting all entries from ``CHKInventory.iter_entries_by_dir()`` has been
192
sped up dramatically for large trees. Iterating by dir is not the best
193
way to load data from a CHK inventory, so it preloads all the items in
194
the correct order. (With the gcc-tree, this changes it (re)reading 8GB
195
of CHK data, down to just 150MB.) This has noticeable affects for things
196
like building checkouts, etc. (John Arbash Meinel, #737234)
201
* Bazaar now infers the default user email address on Unix from the local
202
account name plus the contents of ``/etc/mailname`` if that file exists.
203
In particular, this means that committing as root through etckeeper will
204
normally not require running ``bzr whoami`` first.
205
(Martin Pool, #616878)
207
* ``bzr merge --preview --pull`` should respect the ``--preview`` option
208
first, and not actually change the branch tip revision.
209
(John Arbash Meinel, Dennis Duchier, #760152)
211
* ``bzr push`` into a repository (that doesn't have a branch), will no
212
longer copy all revisions in the repository. Only the ones in the
213
ancestry of the source branch, like it does in all other cases.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #465517)
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* Fix ``UnboundLocalError: local variable 'lock_url' in wait_lock`` error,
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especially while trying to save configuration from QBzr.
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(Martin Pool, #733136)
220
* Fix "Unable to obtain lock" error when pushing to a bound branch if tags
221
had changed. Bazaar was attempting to open and lock the master branch
222
twice in this case. (Andrew Bennetts, #733350)
224
* Standalone bzr.exe installation on Windows: user can put additional python
225
libraries into ``site-packages`` subdirectory of the installation directory,
226
this might be required for "installing" extra dependencies for some plugins.
227
(Alexander Belchenko, #743256)
229
* When reporting a crash without apport, don't print the full list of
230
plugins because it's often too long.
231
(Martin Pool, #716389)
242
* FreeBSD8 has switched to python-2.7 which revealed a re-occurrence of a test
243
failure in the launchpad plugin. ``xmlrpclib.py`` on natty carries a patch
244
that is not in python-2.7 upstream and masked the issue. An additional fix
245
has been added in the interim
246
(<http://psf.upfronthosting.co.za/roundup/tracker/issue8194> should be fixed
247
in python > 2.7.1). (Vincent Ladeuil, #654733)
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This is a bugfix release. Upgrading is recommended for all users of earlier
260
.. Fixes for situations where bzr would previously crash or give incorrect
261
or undesirable results.
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* Correctly resolve text conflicts for files in subdirs.
264
(Vincent Ladeuil, #715058)
266
* Fix "AssertionError: repository.user_url ... does not match URL from
267
server response" when reusing a smart transport.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #726584)
270
* Restore proper logging of bytes transferred. We accidentally reset the
271
counter when commands finished before we logged the total transferred.
272
(John Arbash Meinel, #713258)
279
This release marks the start of another long-term-stable series. From here, we
280
will only make bugfix releases on the 2.3 series (2.3.1, etc, and support it
281
until August 2012), while 2.4 will become our new development series. The 2.1
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and 2.2 series will also continue to get bugfixes. (Currently 2.0 is planned
283
to be EOLed circa September 2011 and will receive only critical bugfixes.)
285
This is a bugfix and polish release over the 2.2 series, with a large number
286
of bugs fixed (>130), and some performance improvements. Some features have
287
been enhanced including commits on stacked branches, upgrades of related
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branches, shortcut URL schemes for ubuntu and debian on launchpad and better
291
Only bugfixes from other stables series have been included since 2.3b5 so all
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known fixed bugs are included here.
294
Users are encouraged to upgrade from the other stable series.
301
This is the fifth and **last** beta of the 2.3 series, leading up to a 2.3.0
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release in February. Beta releases are suitable for everyday use but may cause
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some incompatibilities with plugins.
305
2.3b5 includes bug fixes for committing to stacked branches, smoother upgrades
306
of multiple branches, compatibility with python-2.7, full test suite passing
307
on Ubuntu Natty and windows, less round-trips for several smart server
308
operations, better support text conflicts resolve actions and some more.
310
All known fixed bugs in other series (2.0, 2.1, 2.2) are also included here.
312
External Compatibility Breaks
313
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320
* A redundant parent inventories calculation was removed from
321
``fetch.py``, as ``Repository.insert_stream`` already reports any
322
missing inventories. This removes at least one network roundtrip when
323
pushing to a stacked branch. (Andrew Bennetts)
325
* ``ControlDir.sprout`` no longer opens the target repository more than
326
once. This avoids some unnecessary IO, and removes a network roundtrip
327
when doing ``bzr branch`` to a smart server URL. (Andrew Bennetts)
329
* ``bzr modified`` now read-locks the working tree (and branch and
330
repository) just once. (Andrew Bennetts)
332
* ``bzr resolve`` now accepts ``--take-this`` and ``--take-other`` actions
333
for text conflicts. This *replace* the whole file with the content
334
designated by the action. This will *ignore* all differences that would
335
have been merge cleanly otherwise. (Vincent Ladeuil, #638451)
337
* ``bzr tags``'s "sort" argument now allows registering custom sort
338
methods using the ``bzrlib.tag.tag_sort_methods`` registry.
339
(Jelmer Vernooij, #701244)
341
* ``bt.test_http`` was breaking ``os.environ`` by erasing the values saved by
342
``TestCase`` leading to ``bt.test_import_tariff`` failures.
343
(Vincent Ladeuil, #690563)
345
* ``upgrade`` now upgrades dependent branches when a shared repository is
346
specified. It also supports new options: ``--dry-run`` for showing what
347
will happen and ``--clean`` to remove the backup directory on successful
348
completion. (Ian Clatworthy, Matthew Fuller, #89830, #374734, #422450)
353
.. Fixes for situations where bzr would previously crash or give incorrect
354
or undesirable results.
356
* Avoid leaking SSH subprocess communication socket into unrelated child
357
processes, which could cause bzr to hang on exit. (Max Bowsher, #696285)
359
* ``bzr break-lock`` on a corrupted lock file works correctly, rather than
360
raising a PermissionDenied error. We were accidentally holding open the
361
file we were trying to delete. (John Arbash Meinel, #659978)
363
* ``bzr update`` in a checkout of a readonly branch works again, without
364
trying to set the tags in the master branch. This had been broken by the
365
bug fix for bug #603395. (John Arbash Meinel, #701212)
367
* Per-transport tests now prefer to use ``Transport.get_bytes()`` rather
368
than ``Transport.get().read()``. The SFTP code uses an async message to
369
close the file handle if you let the handle die from refcounting, while
370
it uses a synchronous message if you close it directly. This should help
371
prevent random test suite failures from race conditions.
372
(John Arbash Meinel, #681047)
374
* Stop using ``bzrlib.tuned_gzip.GzipFile``. It is incompatible with
375
python-2.7 and was only used for Knit format repositories, which haven't
376
been recommended since 2007. The file itself will be removed in the next
377
release. (John Arbash Meinel)
379
* The BZR_COLUMNS environment variable can be set to 0 to indicate no
380
limitation on the width of the terminal. (Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #675652)
382
* Treat WSAECONNABORTED the same as WSAECONNRESET for the purposes of
383
considering a smart data stream as being interrupted. This fixes a
384
failure in the windows test suite, that was trying to ensure we cleanly
385
handled a server disconnect. (John Arbash Meinel, #581311, #686587)
387
* Unshelving changes that occur in a now-unversioned directory now restore
388
the directory properly rather than crashing.
389
(John Arbash Meinel, #389674)
391
* You are now able to commit directly to a stacked branch. Any needed
392
parent inventories will be filled in as part of the commit process.
393
(John Arbash Meinel, #375013)
398
* Better document the rules to update the bzr freshmeat page when
399
doing a release. (Vincent Ladeuil, #690515)
404
* ``Branch.sprout``, ``BranchFormat.initalize`` and
405
``ControlDir.create_branch`` now take an optional ``repository`` keyword
406
argument, and ``BranchFormat.open`` now takes an optional
407
``found_repository`` keyword argument. These provide the repository
408
object for new branch object to use (for cases when the caller has
409
already opened that repository). Implementations of these APIs will
410
need to be updated to accept these arguments. (Andrew Bennetts)
412
* ``bzrlib.tuned_gzip.GzipFile`` is now deprecated and will be removed in
413
the bzr-2.4 series. Code that was using it can just use the python
414
stdlib ``gzip.GzipFile``. (John Arbash Meinel)
420
* ``bzrlib.tests`` defines ``isolated_environ`` with the definitions of all
421
the environment variables the tests should care about. It also defines
422
``override_os_environ`` and ``restore_os_environ`` to properly implement
423
isolation from ``os.environ`` for tests. ``bzrlib.tests`` now defines a
424
``DocTestSuite`` class using this facility for all ``bzrlib``
425
doctests. (Vincent Ladeuil, #321320)
427
* Catch exceptions related to bug #637821 during test cleanup to avoid
428
spurious failures. (Vincent Ladeuil, #686008).
430
* Check sphinx compatibility for tests requiring older sphinx versions.
431
(Vincent Ladeuil, #688072)
433
* ``test_onto_transport`` in the Launchpad plugin can now run with Python
434
2.7. (Vincent Ladeuil, #654733)
436
* ``TestCase._captureVar`` and ``TestCase._old_env`` have been deleted due to
437
bug #690563. Test writers are encouraged to use ``TestCase.overrideEnv``
438
instead. (Vincent Ladeuil)
440
* ``TestDebuntuExpansions`` was escaping the test isolation by calling the
441
wrong base class ``setUp``. (Vincent Ladeuil, #684662)
448
This is the fourth beta of the 2.3 series, leading up to a 2.3.0 release in
449
February. Beta releases are suitable for everyday use but may cause some
450
incompatibilities with plugins.
452
2.3b4 includes bug fixes for the ``config`` command and conflict
453
resolution. More changes were made for the test scripts handling to make it
454
easier to add reproducing recipes to bugs.
456
It also includes bug fixes from the 2.2.2 release as well as the bug fixes
457
in the upcoming 2.0.7, 2.1.4 and 2.2.3 releases. This means that all known
458
fixed bugs at the time of this release are included.
461
External Compatibility Breaks
462
*****************************
469
* Bazaar now caches a branch's tags while that branch is read-locked.
470
This removes 1 network roundtrip from most interactions with a remote
471
branch. (Andrew Bennetts)
473
* ``bzr config <option>`` will now display only the value itself so scripts
474
can use it to query the currently active configuration. Displaying several
475
options matching a given regular expression is now controlled via the
476
``--all`` option. (Vincent Ladeuil, bug #670251)
478
* ``bzr resolve`` now reports the number of conflicts resolved and the
479
number of remaining conflicts. This provides a better feedback about the
480
whole resolution process. (Vincent Ladeuil)
482
* Read configuration files in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/bazaar on Unix if there is
483
already a directory there. (Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #195397)
488
* Better message if there is an error while setting ownership of
489
``.bazaar`` directory. (Parth Malwankar, #657553)
491
* ``bzr config`` properly displays list values. (Vincent Ladeuil, #672382)
493
* ``bzr config`` will now respect option policies when displaying the value
494
and display the definition sections when appropriate.
495
(Vincent Ladeuil, #671050)
497
* Don't create commit message files in the current directory to avoid nasty
498
interactions with emacs (which tries to establish the status of the file
499
during the commit which breaks on windows). (Vincent Ladeuil, #673637)
501
* ``bzr resolve --take-other <file>`` will not crash anymore if ``<file>``
502
is involved in a text conflict (but the conflict is still not
503
resolved). (Vincent Ladeuil, #646961)
505
* Merge will now correctly locate a lca where there is a criss-cross merge
506
of a new root. (Gary van der Merwe, #588698)
508
* Report error if non-ASCII command option given. (Rory Yorke, #140563)
510
* ``tools/check-newsbug.py`` is now based on ``lp:hydrazine`` and no longer
511
crashes when encountering private bugs (they are just displayed as such).
512
(Vincent Ladeuil, #354985)
517
* ``BranchBuilder.build_snapshot`` now accepts parent_ids == [].
518
This can be used to create a new root in the graph. (Gary van der Merwe)
520
* Old repository development formats
521
RepositoryFormatCHK1 and RepositoryFormatCHK2 have been removed, and so
522
have the corresponding metadir format options ``development-rich-root``,
523
``development6-rich-root``, and ``development7-rich-root``.
528
* Add a null_output_matches_anything keyword argument with default False to
529
bzrlib.tests.script.ScriptRunner.run_script to specify that the command
530
output should not be checked (as opposed to expecting an empty output).
531
(Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #662509)
533
* Blank output section in scriptrunner tests no longer match any output.
534
Instead, use '...' as a wildcard if you don't care about the output.
535
(Martin Pool, #637830)
537
* Bump minimum testtools version required to run ``bzr selftest`` from 0.9.2
538
to 0.9.5 which will allow tests that need the fixed unicode handling to be
539
written. (Martin [gz])
541
* Introduce an ``overrideEnv()`` helper for tests that needs to change the
542
environment variables while respecting the isolation rules. Get rid of
543
TestCase._restoreEnvironment which is now useless.
544
(Vincent Ladeuil, #690563)
546
* Printing selftest results to a non-UTF-8 console will now escape characters
547
that can't be encoded rather than aborting the test run with an exception.
548
(Martin [gz], #633216)
556
External Compatibility Breaks
557
*****************************
564
* Add --no-tree option to 'bzr push' and 'bzr init' for creating a
565
new or mirrored branch without working trees.
566
(Matthew Gordon, #506730)
568
* ``bzr config`` is a new command that displays the configuration options for
569
a given directory. It accepts a glob to match against multiple options at
570
once. It can also be used to set or delete a configuration option in any
571
configuration file. (Vincent Ladeuil)
573
* New shortcut URL schemes ``ubuntu:`` and ``debianlp:`` access source
574
branches on Launchpad. E.g. ``bzr branch ubuntu:foo`` gives you the source
575
branch for project ``foo`` in the current distroseries for Ubuntu while
576
``bzr branch debianlp:lenny/foo`` gives you the source branch (on Launchpad)
577
for project ``foo`` in Debian Lenny.
578
(Barry Warsaw, #609186)
580
* Provide a configuration option "default_format" that controls the
581
default format for new branches created with ``bzr init``.
582
(Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #484101)
587
* Always set PATH in start_bzr.bat on Windows. (Matthäus G. Chajdas, #470264)
589
* ``bzr status -r X..Y`` was failing because RevisionTree didn't implement
590
``get_shelf_manager``. (John Arbash Meinel, #662053)
592
* Correctly add directory contents when the name was previously added as a
593
normal file, rather than throwing ``AttributeError: children`` during
594
smart_add. (Martin [gz], #251864)
596
* Correctly handle the ``--directory`` option for all code paths of
597
``resolve`` and ``shelve``, this was previously ignored when paths were
598
provided as parameters. When both are provided, ``--directory`` becomes
599
the base directory for the other paths. (Vincent Ladeuil, #670851)
601
* Correctly set the Content-Type header when HTTP POSTing to comply
602
with stricter web frameworks. (Vincent Ladeuil, #665100)
604
* Don't force openssh to use protocol=2, since that is now the default.
605
(Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #561061)
607
* Fix ``KeyError: 'port'`` when getting the stored password for an HTTP URL.
608
(Martin Pool, #654684)
610
* Make ``bzr tag --quiet`` really quiet. (Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #239523)
612
* Missing files (files bzr add'ed and then OS deleted) are now shown in ``bzr
613
status`` output. (Rory Yorke, #134168)
615
* ``NotBranchError`` no longer allows errors from calling
616
``bzrdir.open_repository()`` to propagate. This is unhelpful at best,
617
and at worst can trigger infinite loops in callers. (Andrew Bennetts)
619
* The ``branch.tags.merge_to(target_branch)`` API used by plugins such as
620
``bzr-builddeb`` now propagates changes to the master branch of the
621
target branch (if there is one). This makes it consistent with the
622
other tag APIs. (Andrew Bennetts, #603395)
624
* Windows installers no longer requires the Microsoft vcredist to be
625
installed. (Martin [gz], Gary van der Merwe, #632465)
630
* Add documentation of the ability to edit hunks when shelving.
631
(Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #517660)
633
* Be more specific about the meaning of revision ranges for ``bzr diff``.
634
(Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #247282)
636
* Document the comment character in the .bzrignore file, including a
637
workaround for ignore patterns that begin with #.
638
(Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #631515)
643
* Add ``bzrlib.pyutils`` module with helper functions for some Python
644
tasks such as resolving a dotted name to a Python object
645
(``get_named_object``). (Andrew Bennetts)
647
* ``bzrlib.tests.ForwardingResult`` no longer exists. Use
648
``testtools.ExtendedToOriginalDecorator`` instead. (Andrew Bennetts)
650
* ``known_hooks_key_to_parent_and_attribute`` in ``bzrlib.hooks`` has been
651
deprecated in favour of ``known_hooks.key_to_parent_and_attribute`` in
652
the same module. (Andrew Bennetts)
657
* ``tools/fixed-in.py`` find a bug in NEWS from its number or a regexp
658
matching the news entry and display the corresponding release, date, fix
659
authors and the news entry itself. (Vincent Ladeuil)
664
* Blank output section in scriptrunner tests no longer match any output.
665
Instead, use '...' as a wildcard if you don't care about the output.
666
(Martin Pool, #637830)
668
* ``bzr test-script script`` is a new command that runs a shell-like script
669
from an the ``script`` file. (Vincent Ladeuil)
671
* Fix spurious test failures on babune related to the http pipe cleanup and
672
get rid of some 'bytes left on the HTTP socket' useless log messages.
673
(Vincent Ladeuil, #655557)
675
* ``bzrlib.tests.per_workingtree.TestCaseWithWorkingTree.make_branch_builder``
676
respects its ``relpath`` parameter. (Vincent Ladeuil)
683
External Compatibility Breaks
684
*****************************
686
* The ``bzr tags`` command sorts tag names using a natural sort by
687
default (so tag2 sorts before tag10). The previous default was
688
strictly "asciibetical". That behavior is still available as ``bzr tags
689
--sort=alpha``. (Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #640760)
691
* ``BzrDir.generate_backup_name`` has been deprecated and replaced by a
692
private method. ``osutils.available_backup_name`` provides an extensible
693
replacement. This allowed the deprecation of
694
``bzrlib.transform.get_backup_name``,
695
``bzrlib.transform._get_backup_name`` and
696
``bzrlib.transform.TreeTransformBase.has_named_child``.
702
* Add ``mainline`` revision specifier, which selects the revision that
703
merged a specified revision into the mainline. (Aaron Bentley)
705
* Add ``annotate`` revision specifier, which selects the revision that
706
introduced a specified line of a file. (Aaron Bentley)
708
* Add ``-Dmem_dump`` debug flag, which uses meliae to dump memory to
709
a file upon an out of memory error.
710
(Karl Bielefeldt, #551391)
712
* ``bzr status`` now displays a summary of existing shelves after
713
the other status information. This is done using a ``post_status``
715
(Parth Malwankar, #403687)
717
* GNU lsh is now a supported lsh client; just set BZR_SSH to 'lsh'.
718
Also, bzr will recognize if the 'ssh' comand is a symlink to lsh.
719
(Matthew Gordon, #374700)
721
* The ``pull`` and ``update`` commands now take a ``--show-base``
722
option that, in the case of conflicts, shows the base revision text.
723
(Rory Yorke, #202374)
728
* ``bzr break-lock --force`` breaks the lock without prompting. (Before
729
using this, make sure the process holding the lock really is dead.)
730
(Martin Pool, #397315)
732
* ``bzr remove`` now takes a ``--no-backup`` option for when you don't want it
733
to backup anything, just delete it. This option used to be called ``--force``
734
which is now deprecated.
735
(Marius Kruger, #400554)
737
* When using the pycurl client module, Bazaar shows some of the text from
738
HTTP server error messages.
739
(Martin Pool, #656667)
744
* Don't force openssh to use protocol=2, since that is now the default.
745
(Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #561061)
747
* Fix signature of RemoteBzrDir.create_workingtree to match that of its
748
superclass. (Neil Martinsen-Burrell, Martin Pool, #524627)
750
* Fix traceback with python-2.7's xmlrpclib
751
(Toshio Kuratomi, #612096)
753
* Print junk rather than throwing a UnicodeDecodeError from ``bzr version-info``
754
when using the rio format (with non-ascii information) on a non-utf-8
755
terminal. (Andrej A Antonov, #518609)
757
* Treat all IO, OS, and socket errors consistently when establishing
758
SSH/SFTP connections via a subprocess. (Andrew Bennetts)
760
* ``unshelve --preview`` now can show diff in a non-ascii encoding.
761
(Andrej A Antonov, #518916)
763
* Deleting a versioned directory can leave orphans: unversioned files that
764
were present don't have a parent anymore. The
765
``bzr.transform.orphan_policy`` configuration option controls the ``bzr``
766
behaviour: ``conflict`` (the default) leave the orphans in place and
767
create a conflict for the directory, ``move`` create orphans named
768
``<file>.~#~`` in a ``bzr-orphans`` directory at the root of the working
769
tree. (Vincent Ladeuil, #323111)
777
* Correct the documentation for setting up the smart server with Apache.
778
(Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #311518)
780
* Fix rst typos in bzrlib/help_topics/en/conflict-types.txt.
781
(Vincent Ladeuil, #660943)
783
* Provide more detailed help on the Launchpad plugin at "bzr help
784
plugins/launchpad". (Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #589379)
786
* Suggest ``bzr revert`` for restoring locally deleted files in help text
787
for ``bzr update``. (John C Barstow, #191466)
792
* ``WorkingTree`` methods ``pull``, ``update``, and ``_update_tree``
793
now have an optional argument, ``show_base``, which is by default
794
False. This is flag is ultimately passed to ``merge.merge_inner``
795
in each case. (Rory Yorke, #202374)
800
* Small change to GroupCompressBlock to work more in terms of 'chunks'
801
rather than 'content' for its compressed storage. (John Arbash Meinel)
803
* When running ``bzr selftest --subunit`` the subunit stream will no
804
longer include the "log" information for tests which are considered to
805
be 'successes' (success, xfail, skip, etc) (John Arbash Meinel)
810
* Add a new simpler way to generate multiple test variations, by setting
811
the `scenarios` attribute of a test class to a list of scenarios
812
descriptions, then using `load_tests_apply_scenarios`. (See the testing
813
guide and `bzrlib.tests.scenarios`.) Simplify `test_http` using this.
814
(Martin Pool, #597791)
816
* Add ``tests/ssl_certs/ca.crt`` to the required test files list. Test
817
involving the pycurl https test server fail otherwise when running
818
selftest from an installed version. (Vincent Ladeuil, #651706)
820
* Fix tests that failed when run under ``LANG=C``.
821
(Andrew Bennetts, #632387)
823
* Skip tests that needs a bzr source tree when there isn't one. This is
824
needed to successfully run the test suite for installed versions.
825
(Vincent Ladeuil, #644855).
827
* Skip the tests that requires respecting the chmod bits when running as root.
828
(Vincent Ladeuil, #646133)
830
* Suppress the "maximum recursion depth exceeded in __subclasscheck__"
831
warning on stderr emitted during ``test_dict_deepnested`` in
832
``bzrlib/tests/test__bencode.py``. (Andrew Bennetts)
834
* Use tests.TestCaseInTempDir for tests that requires disk resources.
835
(Vincent Ladeuil, #650001)
842
This is the first beta of the 2.3 series, leading up to a 2.3.0
843
release in January or February. Beta releases are suitable for everyday use
844
but may cause some incompatibilities with plugins. Some plugins may need
845
small updates to work with 2.3b1.
847
2.3b1 includes some performance improvements in both speed and memory
848
consumption, some preliminary support for generating a texinfo version of
849
the doc and better support for launchpad. Many changes were made to make
850
our test suite more robust as well as numerous documentation fixes. It
851
improves the common infrastructure for dealing with colocated named
852
branches and foreign branches. We plan to continue with these themes
853
through the 2.3 series.
855
It also includes bug fixes for 2.0.6, 2.1.3 and 2.2.1 and over 40 fixes of
859
External Compatibility Breaks
860
*****************************
867
* Added ``pre_status`` and ``post_status`` hooks. This allows plugins
868
to register custom handlers which will be invoked before/after the
869
standard status output is displayed. (Parth Malwankar)
871
* ``bzr break-lock --config [location]`` can now break config files
872
locks. (Vincent Ladeuil, #525571)
874
* ``bzrlib.config.LockableConfig`` is a base class for config files that
875
needs to be protected against multiple writers. All methods that
876
change a configuration variable value must be decorated with
877
@needs_write_lock (set_option() for example).
878
(Vincent Ladeuil, #525571)
880
* The ``lp:`` prefix will now use your known username (from
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``bzr launchpad-login``) to expand ``~`` to your username. For example:
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``bzr launchpad-login user && bzr push lp:~/project/branch`` will now
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push to ``lp:~user/project/branch``. (John Arbash Meinel)
885
* New development format ``development8-subtree`` which is similar to the
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``2a`` format and adds subtree support. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* Allow using both ``--using`` and ``--diff-options``.
892
(Matthäus G. Chajdas, #234708)
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* Allow using non-integer bug ID with generic bug trackers.
895
(Alexandre Garnier, #440472)
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* ``bzr remove`` now just backs up changed files instead of exiting,
898
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 extension of the form .~#~).
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(Marius Kruger, #400554)
903
* ``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.
907
* Decrease memory consumption when many chk index pages are loaded. (Such
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as during ``bzr co`` or ``bzr ls -R`` of a large tree.) Often we need to
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read many chk pages because the individual chk map nodes will be spread
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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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* 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)
924
* 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
930
(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
951
previously-unversioned directory within the tree: the directory is
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marked versioned too.
953
(Martin Pool, #192859)
955
* ``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.
957
(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)
963
* ``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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(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)
975
* Configuration files in ``${BZR_HOME}`` are now written in an atomic
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way which should help avoid problems with concurrent writers.
977
(Vincent Ladeuil, #525571)
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* CommitBuilder now uses the committer instead of _config.username to generate
980
the revision-id. (Aaron Bentley, #614404)
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* Configuration files in ``${BZR_HOME}`` are now protected against
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concurrent writers by using a lock. (Vincent Ladeuil, #525571)
985
* Cope with Microsoft FTP Server and VSFTPd that return reply '250
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Directory created' when mkdir succeeds. (Martin Pool, #224373)
988
* `decode` parameter to get() method in FtpTransport and GioTransport classes
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is deprecated. (Alexander Belchenko)
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* Don't print internal object name when print an invalid revision spec
992
error. (Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #598701)
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* Don't traceback when a lockdir's ``held/info`` file is corrupt (e.g.
995
contains only NUL bytes). Instead warn the user, and allow ``bzr
996
break-lock`` to remove it. (Andrew Bennetts, #619872)
998
* ``EPIPE`` can be raised during test server shutdown. This happened on
999
gentoo only so far. (Vincent Ladeuil, #627277)
1001
* Errors occurring during HTTP(S) test server starts should now be
1002
handled cleanly. (Vincent Ladeuil, #392402)
1004
* Fix ``AttributeError on parent.children`` when adding a file under a
1005
directory that was a symlink in the previous commit.
1006
(Martin Pool, #192859)
1008
* Fix ``AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'close'`` in
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``_close_ssh_proc`` when using ``bzr+ssh://``. This was causing
1010
connections to pre-1.6 bzr+ssh servers to fail, and causing warnings on
1011
stderr in some other circumstances. (Andrew Bennetts, #633745)
1013
* Fix spurious paramiko warning on hardy by ensuring that ``selftest``
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properly remove its warning filter. (Vincent Ladeuil, #625686)
1016
* Fix ``AttributeError on parent.children`` when adding a file under a
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directory that was a symlink in the previous commit.
1018
(Martin Pool, #192859)
1020
* Fix ``AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'close'`` in
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``_close_ssh_proc`` when using ``bzr+ssh://``. This was causing
1022
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)
1025
* Fix a problem in bzr's ``Makefile`` that meant syntax errors in some
1026
parts of bzr's source code could cause ``make check-nodocs`` to
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incorrectly return an exit code of 0.
1028
(Vincent Ladeuil, #626667)
1030
* ``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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* Most of the leaked threads during selftest are now fixed, allowing the
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full test suite to pass on gentoo.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #392127)
1037
* Only call ``setlocale`` in the bzr startup script on posix systems. This
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avoids an issue with the newer windows C runtimes used by Python 2.6 and
1039
later which can mangle bytestrings printed to the console.
1040
(Martin [gz], #631350)
1042
* `PathNotChild` should not give a traceback.
1043
(Martin Pool, #98735)
1045
* Prevent ``CHKMap.apply_delta`` from generating non-canonical CHK maps,
1046
which can result in "missing referenced chk root keys" errors when
1047
fetching from repositories with affected revisions.
1048
(Andrew Bennetts, #522637)
1050
* Raise ValueError instead of a string exception.
1051
(John Arbash Meinel, #586926)
1053
* 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.
1057
(Andrew Bennetts, #562380)
1059
* 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)
1064
* Stop ``AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'ElementTree'``
1065
being thrown from ``xml_serializer`` on certain cElementTree setups.
1066
(Martin [gz], #254278)
1068
* 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.
1070
(Martin Pool, #626679)
1072
* Test classes like ``TestCase``, ``TestLoader``, and ``TestSuite`` should
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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)
1076
* ``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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* 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)
1088
* Added a builder/writer sphinx extension that can generate texinfo files. The
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generated files are syntactically correct but the info navigation nodes
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needs more work. (Vincent Ladeuil, #219334)
1092
* First tests defined for sphinx, including a new bzrlib.tests.features.sphinx
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to make the tests conditional.
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* Fix a lot of references in the docs to the old http://bazaar-vcs.org to
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the new http://bazaar.canonical.com or http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com
1098
(John Arbash Meinel, #617503)
1103
* 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.
1106
(John Arbash Meinel, #583486)
1108
* `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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`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.
1118
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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* ``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)
1137
* 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".
1141
(Parth Malwankar, #603461)
1143
* 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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have the configuration file immediately written to disk.
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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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* `FileInWrongBranch` is deprecated in favour of `PathNotChild` and no
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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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* InventoryEntry instances now raise AttributeError if you try to assign
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to attributes that are irrelevant to that kind of entry. e.g. setting
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``symlink_target`` on an InventoryFile will fail. It is still okay to
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read those attributes on any kind of InventoryEntry. The complete list
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of affected attributes is: ``executable``, ``text_id``, ``text_sha1``,
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``text_size`` (only valid for kind == file); ``symlink_target`` (only
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valid for kind == link); and ``reference_revision`` (only valid for kind
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== tree-reference). (Andrew Bennetts)
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* InventoryEntry objects no longer have ``_put_in_tar`` or
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``_put_on_disk`` methods. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* The ``get_filename`` parameter in the ``config.IniBaseConfig``
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constructor has been deprecated, use the ``file_name`` parameter instead.
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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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* Remove used and broken code path in ``BranchInitHookParams.__repr__``.
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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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* Catch socket errors to avoid
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bt.test_sftp_transport.SSHVendorBadConnection.test_bad_connection_ssh
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random failures. (Vincent Ladeuil, #601804)
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* HTTP test servers will leak less threads (and sockets) and will not hang on
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AIX anymore. (Vincent Ladeuil, #405745)
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* On platforms that don't support forking give a nice error message saying so
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when ``bzr selftest --parallel=fork`` is used. (Martin [gz], #528730)
1207
* 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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* The test suite now simply holds log files in memory, rather than writing them
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out to disk and then reading them back in and deleting them.
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* The way ``bzr selftest --parallel`` generates N partitions of tests to
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run in parallel has changed. Instead of splitting the list of tests at
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N-1 points, it distributes the tests one-by-one into the partitions in a
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round robin fashion. This reduces the total time to run the tests in
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parallel because a series of slow tests in the test suite will be
1224
distributed evenly among the parallel test suites, rather than slowing
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down just one suite. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* Tracebacks from a parameterized test are no longer reported against every
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parameterization of that test. This was done by adding a hack to
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``bzrlib.tests.clone_test`` so that it no longer causes
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testtools.TestCase instances to share a details dict.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #625574)
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