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Integrating with Bazaar

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This page should hopefully become a quick guide to integrating other (Python-based) software with Bazaar.

Manipulating the Working Tree

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Most objects in Bazaar are in files, named after the class they contain. To manipulate the Working Tree we need a valid WorkingTree object, which is loaded from the workingtree.py file, eg::

  #!python

  from bzrlib import workingtree

  wt = workingtree.WorkingTree.open('/home/jebw/bzrtest')

This gives us a WorkingTree object, which has various methods spread over itself, and its parent classes MutableTree and Tree - its worth having a look through these three files (workingtree.py, mutabletree.py and tree.py) to see which methods are available.

Checking Status

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To check status (equivalent of bzr status) we need to create a Delta object showing changes::

  #!python

  from bzrlib import delta

  changes = wt.changes_from(wt.basis_tree())

This gives us Delta object with different lists of files for each type of change, eg changes.added is a list of added files, changes.removed is list of removed files, changes.modified is a list of modified files. The contents of the lists aren't just filenames, but included other information as well. To grab just the filename we want the first value, eg::

  #!python

  print("list of newly added files")

  for filename in changes.added:

    print("%s has been added" % filename[0])

The exception to this is changes.renamed, where the list returned for each renamed files contains both the old and new names -- one or both may interest you, depending on what you're doing.  

For example::

  #!python

  print("list of renamed files")

  for filename in changes.renamed:

    print("%s has been renamed to %s" % (filename[0], filename[1]))

Adding Files

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If you want to add files the same way `bzr add` does, you can use MutableTree.smart_add.  By default, this is recursive. Paths can either be absolute or relative to the workingtree::

  #!python

  wt.smart_add(['dir1/filea.txt', 'fileb.txt', '/home/jebw/bzrtesttree/filec.txt'])

For more precise control over which files to add, use MutableTree.add::

  #!python

  wt.add(['dir1/filea.txt', 'fileb.txt', '/home/jebw/bzrtesttree/filec.txt'])

Removing Files

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You can remove multiple files at once.  The file paths need to be relative to the workingtree::

  #!python

  wt.remove(['filea.txt', 'fileb.txt', 'dir1'])

By default, the files are not deleted, just removed from the inventory.  To delete them from the filesystem as well::

  #!python

  wt.remove(['filea.txt', 'fileb.txt', 'dir1'], keep_files=False)

Renaming a File

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You can rename one file to a different name using WorkingTree.rename_one.  You just provide the old and new names, eg::

  #!python

  wt.rename_one('oldfile.txt','newfile.txt')

Moving Files

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You can move multiple files from one directory into another using WorkingTree.move::

  #!python

  wt.move(['olddir/file.txt'], 'newdir')

More complicated renames/moves can be done with transform.TreeTransform, which is outside the scope of this document.

Committing Changes

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To commit _all_ the changes to our working tree we can just call the WorkingTree's commit method, giving it a commit message, eg::

  #!python

  wt.commit('this is my commit message')

To commit only certain files, we need to provide a list of filenames which we want committing, eg::

  #!python

  wt.commit(message='this is my commit message', specific_files=['fileA.txt', 'dir2/fileB.txt', 'fileD.txt'])

Generating a Log for a File

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Generating a log is, in itself, simple.  Grab a branch (see below) and pass it to show_log together with a log formatter, eg::

  #!python

  from bzrlib import log

  from bzrlib import branch

  b = branch.Branch.open('/path/to/bazaar/branch')

  lf = log.LongLogFormatter(to_file=sys.stdout)

  log.show_log(b, lf)

Three log formatters are included with bzrlib: LongLogFormatter, ShortLogFormatter and LineLogFormatter.  These provide long, short and single-line log output formats. It's also possible to write your own in very little code.

Annotating a File

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To annotate a file, we want to walk every line of a file, retrieving the revision which last modified/created that line and then retrieving the information for that revision.

First we get an annotation iterator for the file we are interested in::

  #!python

  tree, relpath = workingtree.WorkingTree.open_containing('/path/to/file.txt')

  fileid = tree.path2id(relpath)

  annotation = list(tree.annotate_iter(fileid))

To avoid repeatedly retrieving the same revisions we grab all revisions associated with the file at once and build up a map of id to revision information. We also build an map of revision numbers, again indexed by the revision id::

  #!python

  revision_ids = set(revision_id for revision_id, text in annotation)

  revisions = tree.branch.repository.get_revisions(revision_ids)

  revision_map = dict(izip(revision_ids, revisions))

  revno_map = tree.branch.get_revision_id_to_revno_map()

Finally, we use our annotation iterator to walk the lines of the file, displaying the information from our revision maps as we go::

  #!python

  for revision_id, text in annotation :

      rev = revision_map[revision_id]

      revno = revno_map[revision_id]

      revno_string = '.'.join(str(i) for i in revno)

      print "%s, %s: %s" % (revno_string, rev.committer, text)

Working with branches

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To work with a branch you need a branch object, created from your branch::

  #!python

  from bzrlib import branch

  b = branch.Branch.open('/home/jebw/bzrtest')

Branching from an existing branch

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To branch you create a branch object representing the branch you are branching from, and supply a path/url to the new branch location. The following code clones the bzr.dev branch (the latest copy of the Bazaar source code) - be warned it has to download 60meg so takes a while to run with no feedback::

  #!python

  from bzrlib import branch

  b = branch.Branch.open('http://bazaar-vcs.org/bzr/bzr.dev')

  nb = b.bzrdir.sprout('/tmp/newBzrBranch').open_branch()

This provides no feedback, since Bazaar automatically uses the 'silent' UI. 

Pushing and pulling branches

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To push a branch you need to open the source and destination branches, then just call push with the other branch as a parameter::

  #!python

  from bzrlib import branch

  b1 = branch.Branch.open('file:///home/user/mybranch')

  b2 = branch.Branch.open('http://bazaar-vcs.org/bzr/bzr.dev')

  b1.push(b2)

Pulling is much the same::

  #!python

  b1.pull(b2)

If you have a working tree, as well as a branch, you should use WorkingTree.pull, not Branch.pull.

This won't handle conflicts automatically though, so any conflicts will be left in the working tree for the user to resolve.

Checkout from an existing branch

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This performs a Lightweight checkout from an existing Branch::

  #!python

  from bzrlib import bzrdir

  accelerator_tree, source = bzrdir.BzrDir.open_tree_or_branch('http://bazaar-vcs.org/bzr/bzr.dev')

  source.create_checkout('/tmp/newBzrCheckout', None, True, accelerator_tree)

To make a heavyweight checkout, change the last line to::

  source.create_checkout('/tmp/newBzrCheckout', None, False, accelerator_tree

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History Operations

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Finding the last revision number or id

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To get the last revision number and id of a branch use::

  #!python

  revision_number, revision_id = branch.last_revision_info()

If all you care about is the revision_id there is also the

method::

  #!python

  revision_id = branch.last_revision()

Getting the list of revision ids that make up a branch

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IMPORTANT: This should be avoided wherever possible, as it scales with the length of history::

  #!python

  revisions = branch.revision_history()

now revisions[0] is the revision id of the first commit, and revs[-1] is the revision

id of the most recent. Note that if all you want is the last revision then

you should use branch.last_revision() as described above, as it is

vastly more efficient.

Getting a Revision object from a revision id

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The Revision object has attributes like "message" to get the information

about the revision::

  #!python

  repo = branch.repository

  revision = repo.get_revision(rev_id)

Accessing the files from a revision

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To get the file contents and tree shape for a specific revision you need

a RevisionTree. These are supplied by the repository for a specific

revision id::

  #!python

  revtree = repo.revision_tree(rev_id)

There's a lot going on in a RevisionTree, but there are a couple of things

that may be interesting::

  #!python

  revtree.changes_from(other_revtree)

gives you a TreeDelta which you is a form of diff.  

A more regular and precise comparison can be derived from ``Tree.iter_changes``::

  #!python

  revtree.iter_changes(other_revtree)

See the API documentation for more details.

The most common way to list files in a tree is `Tree.iter_entries()`.  The simplest way to get file content is `Tree.get_file()`.  The best way to retrieve file content for large numbers of files `Tree.iter_files_bytes()`.

Manipulating the Repository Directly

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TBD (by someone else who knows what they're doing)

(If someone will describe the operations they're interested in, I can take a stab at it -- AaronBentley)