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:2.2b3: NOT RELEASED YET
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* ``bzr commit`` accepts ``-p`` (for "patch") as a shorter name for
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(Parth Malwankar, #571467)
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* ``bzr ignore`` now supports a ``--default-rules`` option that displays
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the default ignore rules used by bzr. The flag ``--old-default-rules``
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is no longer supported by ``ignore``.
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(Parth Malwankar, #538703)
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* ``bzr pack`` now supports a ``--clean-obsolete-packs`` option that
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can save disk space by deleting obsolete pack files created during the
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(Parth Malwankar, #304320)
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* ``.bazaar``, ``.bazaar/bazaar.conf`` and ``.bzr.log`` inherit user and
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group ownership from the containing directory. This allow bzr to work
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(Martin <gzlist@googlemail.com>, Parth Malwankar, #376388)
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* ``bzr log --exclude-common-ancestry -r X..Y`` displays the revisions that
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are part of Y ancestry but not part of X ancestry (aka the graph
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #320119)
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* ``bzr selftest --parallel=fork`` wait for its children avoiding zombies.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #566670)
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* ``bzr selftest`` should not use ui.note() since it's not unicode safe.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #563997)
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* Don't mention --no-strict when we just issue the warning about unclean trees.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #401599)
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* Fixed ``AssertionError`` when accessing smart servers running Bazaar
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(Andrew Bennetts, #528041)
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* Reduce peak memory by one copy of compressed text.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #566940)
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* Show the filenames when a file rename fails so that the error will be
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(Martin Pool, #491763)
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* ``append_revisions_only`` will now be interpreted as a boolean and a
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warning emitted if illegal values are used. Note that for projects
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that needs to maintain compatibility with previsous bzr versions,
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only 'True' and 'False' strings must be used (previous versions of
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bzr will interpret all strings differing from 'True'
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(case-sensitive) as false.
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(Brian de Alwis, Vincent Ladeuil)
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* ``Config.get_user_option_as_bool`` will now warn if a value cannot
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be interpreted as a boolean.
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* Added ``bzrlib.merge.PerFileMerger``, a more convenient way to write
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some kinds of ``merge_file_content`` hook functions.
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* `BzrDir`, `Branch`, `Repository` and `WorkingTree` now all support `user_url`,
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`user_transport`, `control_url` and `control_transport` members pointing
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respectively to the directory containing the ``.bzr`` control directory,
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and to the directory within ``.bzr`` used for the particular component.
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All of them inherit from `ControlComponent` which provides default
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* ``_remember_remote_is_before`` no longer raises AssertionError when
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suboptimal network behaviour is noticed; instead it just mutters to the
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log file (and warns the user if they have set the ``hpss`` debug flag).
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This was causing unnecessary aborts for performance bugs that are minor
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(Andrew Bennetts, #528041)
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* Permit bzr to run under ``python -OO`` which reduces the size of bytecode
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files loaded from disk. To ensure docstrings needed for help are never
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stripped, the prefix ``__doc__ =`` should now be used.
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(Martin <gzlist@googlemail.com>)
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* Added ``bzrlib.tests.matchers`` as a place to put matchers, along with
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our first in-tree matcher. See the module docstring for details.
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* ``bzr selftest --parallel=subprocess`` now works correctly on win32.
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(Gordon Tyler, #551332)
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* Workaround ``Crypto.Random`` check leading to spurious test
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failures on Lucid, FreeBSD and gentoo.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #528436)
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This is a somewhat early second beta of the 2.2 series, to fix a python2.4
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incompatibility in the 2.2b1 release. It also includes a swag of
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performance, usability and correctness improvements: test feedback on all
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of these would be welcome.
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* ``bzr diff`` now supports a --format option, which can be used to
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select alternative diff formats. (Jelmer Vernooij, #555994)
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* ``bzr dpush``, ``bzr push`` and ``bzr send`` will now issue a warning
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instead of failing when dirty trees are involved. The corresponding
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``dpush_strict``, ``push_strict`` and ``send_strict`` should be set to
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True explicitly to get the previous behaviour.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #519319)
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* ``bzr export`` to tar file does not fail if any parent directory
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contains unicode characters. This works around upstream Python bug
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http://bugs.python.org/issue8396 .
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(Parth Malwankar, #413406)
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* ``bzr switch`` does not die if a ConfigurableFileMerger is used.
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(Aaron Bentley, #559436)
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* ``bzr update`` when a pending merge in the working tree has been merged
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into the master branch will no longer claim that old commits have become
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pending merges. (Robert Collins, #562079)
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* ``bzrlib.mutabletree.MutableTree.commit`` will now support a passed in
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config as in previous versions of bzrlib. (Robert Collins)
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* Fix glitch in the warning about unclean trees display.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #562665)
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* Fixed Python2.4 incompatibilities in the bzr2.2b1 source tarball.
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* Help messages generated by ``RegistryOption.from_kwargs`` list the
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switches in alphabetical order, rather than in an undefined order.
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(Martin von Gagern, #559409)
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* Make sure the ``ExecutablePath`` and ``InterpreterPath`` are set in
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Apport crash reports, to avoid "This problem report applies to a program
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which is not installed any more" error.
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(Martin Pool, James Westby, #528114)
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* Reset ``siginterrupt`` flag to False every time we handle a signal
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installed with ``set_signal_handler(..., restart_syscall=True)`` (from
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``bzrlib.osutils``. Reduces the likelihood of "Interrupted System Call"
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errors after two window resizes.
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* When invoked with a range revision, ``bzr log`` doesn't show revisions
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that are not part of the Y revisions ancestry anymore when invoked with
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #474807)
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* Properly handle ``param_name`` attribute for ``ListOption``.
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(Martin von Gagern, 387117)
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* ``bzr commit`` will prompt before using a commit message that was
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generated by a template and not edited by the user.
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(Robert Collins, #530265)
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* ``bzr diff`` read-locks the trees and branches only once, saving about
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10-20ms on ``bzr diff`` in a bzr.dev tree.
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* ``bzr missing`` read-locks the branches only once.
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* ``bzr pull`` locks the branches and tree only once.
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* Index lookups in pack repositories search recently hit pack files first.
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In repositories with many pack files this can greatly reduce the
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number of files accessed, the number of bytes read, and the number of
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read calls. An incremental pull via plain HTTP takes half the time and
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bytes for a moderately large repository. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* Index lookups only re-order the indexes when the hit files aren't
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already first. Reduces the cost of reordering
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(John Arbash Meinel, #562429)
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* Less code is loaded at startup. (Cold-cache start time is about 10-20%
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(Martin Pool, #553017)
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* ``bzrlib.diff.get_trees_and_branches_to_diff`` is deprecated. Use
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``get_trees_and_branches_to_diff_locked`` instead.
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* ``bzrlib.commands.Command.run_direct`` is no longer needed - the pre
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2.1 method of calling run() to perform testing or direct use via the API
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is now possible again. As part of this, the _operation attribute on
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Command is now transient and only exists for the duration of ``run()``.
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:2.2.0b1: Not released yet
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Compatibility Breaks
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* BTreeGraphIndex can now take an offset to indicate that the data starts
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somewhere other than then beginning of the file. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* Deleted very old hidden commands ``versionedfile-list``,
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``weave-plan-merge``, ``weave-merge-text``.
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* Added docstring for ``Tree.iter_changes``
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(John Arbash Meinel, #304182)
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* Allow additional arguments to
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``RemoteRepository.add_inventory_by_delta()``. (Jelmer Vernooij, #532631)
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* Allow exporting a single file using ``bzr export``.
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(Michal Junák, #511987)
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* Allow syscalls to automatically restart when ``TextUIFactory``'s
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SIGWINCH handler is invoked, avoiding ``EINTR`` errors during blocking
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IO, which are often poorly handled by Python's libraries and parts of
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bzrlib. (Andrew Bennetts, #496813)
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* Avoid infinite recursion when probing for apport.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #516934)
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* Avoid ``malloc(0)`` in ``patiencediff``, which is non-portable.
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(Martin Pool, #331095)
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* Avoid truncating svn URLs.
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(Martin Pool, Martin von Gagern, #545185)
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* ``bzr add`` will not add conflict related files unless explicitly required.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #322767, #414589)
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* ``bzr dump-btree`` now works on ``*.cix`` and ``*.six`` files. Those
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indices do not have reference lists, so ``dump-btree`` will simply show
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``None`` instead. (Andrew Bennetts, #488607)
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* ``bzr help`` will no longer trigger the get_missing_command hook when
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doing a topic lookup. This avoids prompting (like 'no command plugins/loom,
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did you mean log?') when getting help. In future we may trigger the hook
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deliberately when no help topics match from any help index.
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(Robert Collins, #396261)
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* ``bzr log -n0 -r..A.B.C`` should not crash but just consider the None
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revspec as representing the first revision of the branch.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #519862)
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* ``bzr remove-tree`` can now remove multiple working trees.
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(Jared Hance, Andrew Bennetts, #253137)
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* ``bzr resolve --take-this`` and ``--take-other`` now correctly renames
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the kept file on content conflicts where one side deleted the file.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #529968)
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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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* ``bzr upgrade`` now names backup directory as ``backup.bzr.~N~`` instead
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of ``backup.bzr``. This directory is ignored by bzr commands such as
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(Parth Malwankar, #335033, #300001)
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* Cope with non-utf8 characters inside ``.bzrignore``.
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(Jason Spashett, #183504)
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* Correctly interpret "451 Rename/move failure: Directory not empty" from
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ftp servers while trying to take a lock.
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(Martin Pool, #528722)
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* DirStateRevisionTree.kind() was returning wrong result when 'kind'
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changes occured between the workingtree and one of its parents.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #535547)
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* Fix ``log`` to better check ancestors even if merged revisions are involved.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #476293)
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* Loading a plugin from a given path with ``BZR_PLUGINS_AT`` doesn't depend
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on os.lisdir() order and is now reliable.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #552922).
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* Many IO operations that returned ``EINTR`` were retried even if it
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wasn't safe to do so via careless use of ``until_no_eintr``. Bazaar now
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only retries operations that are safe to retry, and in some cases has
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switched to operations that can be retried (e.g. ``sock.send`` rather than
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(Andrew Bennetts, Martin <gzlist@googlemail.com>, #496813)
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* Path conflicts now support --take-this and --take-other even when a
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deletion is involved.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #531967)
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* Network transfer amounts and rates are now displayed in SI units according
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to the Ubuntu Units Policy <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnitsPolicy>.
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(Gordon Tyler, #514399)
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prevents ``bzr status --short`` from crashing when those files are
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present. (John Arbash Meinel, #303275)
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* ``bzr mkdir DIR`` will not create DIR unless DIR's parent is a versioned
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directory. (Parth Malwankar, #138600)
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* SSH child processes will now ignore SIGQUIT on nix systems so breaking into
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the debugger won't kill the session.
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(Martin <gzlist@googlemail.com>, #162502)
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* Tolerate patches with leading noise in ``bzr-handle-patch``.
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(Toshio Kuratomi, Martin Pool, #502076)
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* ``update -r`` now supports updating to revisions that are not on
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mainline (i.e. it supports dotted revisions).
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(Parth Malwankar, #517800)
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* Use first apparent author not committer in GNU Changelog format.
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(Martin von Gagern, #513322)
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* ``bzr upgrade`` now names backup directory as ``backup.bzr.~N~`` instead
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of ``backup.bzr``. This directory is ignored by bzr commands such as
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(Parth Malwankar, #335033, #300001)
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* ``bzrlib.merge_directive._BaseMergeDirective`` has been renamed to
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``bzrlib.merge_directive.BaseMergeDirective`` and is now public.
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* ``BranchFormat.initialize`` now takes an optional ``name`` of the colocated
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branch to create. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* ``BzrDir.get_branch_transport`` now takes an optional ``name`` of the
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colocated branch to open. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* Added ``bzrlib.osutils.set_signal_handler``, a convenience function that
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can set a signal handler and call ``signal.siginterrupt(signum,
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False)`` for it, if the platform and Python version supports it.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #496813)
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* New ``bzrlib.initialize`` is recommended for programs using bzrlib to
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run when starting up; it sets up several things that previously needed
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to be done separately.
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(Martin Pool, #507710)
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* Exporters now support a ``per_file_timestamps`` argument to write out the
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timestamp of the commit in which a file revision was introduced.
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* New method ``BzrDir.list_branches()`` that returns a sequence of branches
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present in a control directory. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* New method ``Repository.get_known_graph_ancestry()``.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #495502)
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* New transport methods ``readlink``, ``symlink`` and ``hardlink``.
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* Remove unused ``CommandFailed`` exception.
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* ``bzrlib.branchbuilder.BranchBuilder.build_snapshot`` now accepts a
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``message_callback`` in the same way that commit does. (Robert Collins)
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* ``bzrlib.builtins.Commit.run`` raises ``bzrlib.errors.BoundBranchOutOfDate``
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rather than ``bzrlib.errors.BzrCommandError`` when the bound branch is out
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of date. (Gary van der Merwe)
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* ``bzrlib.commands.run_bzr`` is more extensible: callers can supply the
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functions to load or disable plugins if they wish to use a different
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plugin mechanism; the --help, --version and no-command name code paths
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now use the generic pluggable command lookup infrastructure.
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* ``bzrlib.errors.BoundBranchOutOfDate`` has a new field ``extra_help``
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which can be set to add extra help to the error. (Gary van der Merwe)
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* New method ``Branch.automatic_tag_name`` that can be used to find the
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tag name for a particular revision automatically. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* The methods ``BzrDir.create_branch()``, ``BzrDir.destroy_branch()`` and
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``BzrDir.open_branch()`` now take an optional ``name`` argument.
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* bzr now has a ``.testr.conf`` file in its source tree configured
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appropriately for running tests with Testrepository
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(``https://launchpad.net/testrepository``). (Robert Collins)
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* Documentation about testing with ``subunit`` has been tweaked.
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* Known failures has been added for resolve --take-other on ParentLoop
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conflicts. This reflects bug #537956 without fixing it.
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* New ``bzrlib.tests.test_import_tariff`` can make assertions about what
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* New `bzrlib.tests.test_import_tariff` can make assertions about what
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Python modules are loaded, to guard against startup time or library
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dependency regressions.
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* PQM will now run with subunit output. To analyze a PQM error use
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tribunal, or cat log | subunit-filter | subunit2pyunit. (Robert Collins)
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* Stop sending apport crash files to ``.cache`` in the directory from
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which ``bzr selftest`` was run. (Martin Pool, #422350)
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* Tests no longer fail if "close() called during concurrent
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operation on the same file object" occurs when closing the log file
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(which can happen if a thread tries to write to the log file at the
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wrong moment). An warning will be written to ``stderr`` when this
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happens, and another warning will be written if the log file could not
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be closed after retrying 100 times. (Andrew Bennetts, #531746)
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:2.1.2: NOT RELEASED YET
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* ``bzr switch`` does not die if a ConfigurableFileMerger is used.
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(Aaron Bentley, #559436)
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* Fixed ``AssertionError`` when accessing smart servers running Bazaar
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(Andrew Bennetts, #528041)
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* Reset ``siginterrupt`` flag to False every time we handle a signal
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installed with ``set_signal_handler(..., restart_syscall=True)`` (from
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``bzrlib.osutils``. Reduces the likelihood of "Interrupted System Call"
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errors after two window resizes.
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* ``_remember_remote_is_before`` no longer raises AssertionError when
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suboptimal network behaviour is noticed; instead it just mutters to the
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log file (and warns the user if they have set the ``hpss`` debug flag).
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This was causing unnecessary aborts for performance bugs that are minor
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(Andrew Bennetts, #528041)
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This is a small bugfix release. Upgrading is recommended for anyone
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running 2.1.0 or earlier.
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* Allow syscalls to automatically restart when ``TextUIFactory``'s
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SIGWINCH handler is invoked, avoiding ``EINTR`` errors during blocking
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IO, which are often poorly handled by Python's libraries and parts of
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bzrlib. (Andrew Bennetts, #496813)
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* Avoid ``malloc(0)`` in ``patiencediff``, which is non-portable.
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(Martin Pool, #331095)
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* Fix plugin packaging on Windows. (Ian Clatworthy, #524162)
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* Fix stub sftp test server to call os.getcwdu().
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #526221, #526353)
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* Fixed CHM generation by moving the NEWS section template into
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a separate file. (Ian Clatworthy, #524184)
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* Merge correctly when this_tree is not a WorkingTree. (Aaron Bentley)
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* Register SIGWINCH handler only when creating a ``TextUIFactory``; avoids
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problems importing bzrlib from a non-main thread.
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(Elliot Murphy, #521989)
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* 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.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #562380)
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* Standardize the error handling when creating a new ``StaticTuple``
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(problems will raise TypeError). (Matt Nordhoff, #457979)
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* Warn if pyrex is too old to compile the new ``SimpleSet`` and
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``StaticTuple`` extensions, rather than having the build fail randomly.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #449776)
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* Added a link to the Desktop Guide. (Ian Clatworthy)
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* Added What's New in Bazaar 2.1 document. (Ian Clatworthy)
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* Drop Google Analytics from the core docs as they caused problems
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in the CHM files. (Ian Clatworthy, #502010)
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* Added ``bzrlib.osutils.set_signal_handler``, a convenience function that
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can set a signal handler and call ``signal.siginterrupt(signum,
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False)`` for it, if the platform and Python version supports it.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #496813)
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tests that 'failed' - they're all just failures.
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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 revert`` now only takes write lock on working tree, instead of on
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both working tree and branch.
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(Danny van Heumen, #498409)
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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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* 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.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #562380)
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This fifth release in our 2.0 series addresses several user-inconvenience
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bugs. None are critical, but upgrading is recommended for all users on
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earlier 2.0 releases.
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* Avoid ``malloc(0)`` in ``patiencediff``, which is non-portable.
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(Martin Pool, #331095)
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* Concurrent autopacking is more resilient to already-renamed pack files.
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If we find that a file we are about to obsolete is already obsoleted, we
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do not try to rename it, and we leave the file in ``obsolete_packs``.
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The code is also fault tolerant if a file goes missing, assuming that
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another process already removed the file.
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(John Arbash Meinel, Gareth White, #507557)
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* Cope with the lockdir ``held/info`` file being empty, which seems to
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happen fairly often if the process is suddenly interrupted while taking
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(Martin Pool, #185103)
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* Give the warning about potentially slow cross-format fetches much
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earlier on in the fetch operation. Don't show this message during
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upgrades, and show the correct format indication for remote
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(Martin Pool, #456077, #515356, #513157)
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bzr 2.0.5 (not released yet)
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* Handle renames correctly when there are files or directories that
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differ only in case. (Chris Jones, Martin Pool, #368931)
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