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:Codename: Monkey Magic
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:2.2b4: NOT RELEASED YET
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* Support ``--directory`` option for a number of additional commands:
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conflicts, merge-directive, missing, resolve, shelve, switch,
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unshelve, whoami. (Martin von Gagern, #527878)
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* ``bzr init`` does not recursively scan directory contents anymore
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leading to faster init for directories with existing content.
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(Martin [gz], Parth Malwankar, #501307)
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* ``bzr log --exclude-common-ancestry`` is now taken into account for
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #575631)
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* Ensure that wrong path specifications in ``BZR_PLUGINS_AT`` display
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proper error messages.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #591215)
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* Final fix for 'no help for command' issue. We now show a clean message
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when a command has no help, document how to set help more clearly, and
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test that all commands available to the test suite have help.
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(Robert Collins, #177500)
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* Explicitly removing ``--profile-imports`` option from parsed command-line
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arguments on Windows, because bzr script does the same.
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(Alexander Belchenko, #588277)
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* Relative imports in plugins are now handled correctly when using
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #588959)
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* Use lazy imports in ``bzrlib/merge.py`` so that plugins like ``news_merge``
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do not cause modules to be loaded unnecessarily just because the plugin
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registers a merge hook. This improves ``bzr rocks`` time by about 25%
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in a default installation (with just the core plugins).
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* Added ``regression`` tag to our tags list. (Robert Collins)
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* Improved our release checklist to have a bit less churn and leave things
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ready-to-go for the next action (including other people doing
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development). (Robert Collins)
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* ``bzrlib.knit.KnitSequenceMatcher``, which has been deprecated since
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2007, has been deleted. Use ``PatienceSequenceMatcher`` from
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``bzrlib.patiencediff`` instead.
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:2.2b3: NOT RELEASED YET
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This third beta in the 2.2 series brings with it all the goodness of 2.1.2
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and 2.0.6 (though it preceeds 2.0.6 slightly). Of particular note for
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users are compatibility fixes with bzr 1.5 and below servers, a hopeful
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end to the EINTR errors caused by SIGWINCH interactions, a shiny new
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bash completion script and bzr will no longer guess at identity details -
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it was too unreliable in reality. Use ``bzr whoami`` on every new install.
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For developers we have some API changes which may impact plugins as well
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as a bunch of our regular improvements to internal clarity and test
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Compatibility Breaks
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* An API break has been made to the lock_write method of ``Branch`` and
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``Repository`` objects; they now return ``branch.BranchWriteLockResult``
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and ``repository.RepositoryWriteLockResult`` objects. This makes
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changing the API in future easier and permits some cleaner calling code.
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The lock_read method has also changed from having no defined return
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value to returning ``LogicalLockResult`` objects.
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* ``bzr`` does not try to guess the username as ``username@hostname``
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and requires it to be explictly set. This can be set using ``bzr
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(Parth Malwankar, #549310)
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* ``bzrlib.commands.Command`` will now raise ValueError during
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construction if there is no __doc__ set. (Note, this will be reverted in
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2.2b4) (Robert Collins)
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* The source tree no longer contains a contrib/zsh/_bzr completion
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script. The new file contrib/zsh/README suggests alternatives.
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(Martin von Gagern, #560030)
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(Parth Malwankar, #304320)
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* New command line option ``--authors`` to ``bzr log`` allows users to
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select which of the apparent authors and committer should be
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included in the log. Defaults depend on format. (Martin von Gagern, #513322)
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* Support ``--directory`` option for a number of additional commands:
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added, annotate, bind, cat, cat-revision, clean-tree, deleted,
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export, ignore, ignored, lookup-revision, ls, modified, nick,
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re-sign, unbind, unknowns.
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(Martin von Gagern, #527878)
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* The bash_completion plugin from the bzr-bash-completion project has
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been merged into the tree. It provides a bash-completion command and
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replaces the outdated ``contrib/bash/bzr`` script with a version
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using the plugin. (Martin von Gagern, #560030)
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* A new transport based on GIO (the gnome i/o library) provides access to
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samba shares, webdav using gio+smb and gio+dav. It is also possible to
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use gio for some already existing transport methods as gio+file,
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* Alias information shown by ``bzr help`` is now accurate. This
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was showing an internal object name for some plugin aliases.
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(Parth Malwankar, #584650)
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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 clean-tree`` should not delete nested bzrdirs. Required for proper
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support of bzr-externals and scmproj plugins.
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(Alexander Belchenko, bug #572098)
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* ``bzr ignore`` will no longer add duplicate patterns to .bzrignore.
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(Gordon Tyler, #572092)
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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 lp-propose`` which was switched to use production Launchpad API
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servers a few commits ago has been reverted to use edge: there is a
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problem with using production which isn't trivially obvious, so we've
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filed a bug to track it, and until thats fixed will be using edge.
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(Robert Collins, #583667)
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* ``bzr rm`` should not refuse to delete directories which contained a file
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which has been moved elsewhere in the tree after the previous commit.
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(Marius Kruger, Daniel Watkins, #129880)
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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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* CommitBuilder refuses to create revisions whose trees have no root.
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* Do not register a SIGWINCH signal handler, instead just poll for the
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terminal width as needed. This avoids the "Interrupted System Call"
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problems that occur on POSIX with all currently released versions of
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(Andrew Bennetts, #583941)
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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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versions before 1.6.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #528041)
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* Improved progress bar for fetch (2a format only). Bazaar now shows an
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estimate of the number of records to be fetched vs actually fetched.
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(Parth Malwankar, #374740, #538868)
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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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* ``RemoteBranch.lock_write`` raises ``ReadOnlyError`` if called during a
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read lock, rather than causing an ``AttributeError``.
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(Andrew Bennetts, Данило Шеган, #582781)
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* Selftest was failing with testtools 0.9.3, which caused an
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AssertionError raised from a cleanUp to be reported as a Failure, not an
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Error, breaking on of our test hygiene tests.
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(Robert Collins, Vincent Ladeuil).
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* ``set_user_option`` with a dict on remote branches no longer fails with
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an AttributeError. There is a new ``Branch.set_config_option_dict`` RPC
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to support this efficiently.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #430382)
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* Show the filenames when a file rename fails so that the error will be
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more comprehensible.
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(Martin Pool, #491763)
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* Support Pyrex 0.9.9, required changing how we handle exceptions in Pyrex.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #582656)
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* Unicode characters in aliases are now handled correctly and do not cause
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UnicodeEncodeError exception. (Parth Malwankar, #529930)
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* Unicode commit messages that are the same as a file name no longer cause
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UnicodeEncodeError. ``ui.text.show_warning`` now handles unicode
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(Parth Malwankar, #563646)
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* Using bzr with `lp:` urls behind an http proxy should work.
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(Robert Collins, #558343)
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* 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.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #583486)
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(case-sensitive) as false.
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(Brian de Alwis, Vincent Ladeuil)
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* ``bzr ls`` now supports short options for existing long options.
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``-k/--kind``, ``-i/--ignored``, ``-u/--unknown`` and ``-0/--null``.
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(Parth Malwankar, #181124)
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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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* The all-in-one Windows installer will now be built with docstrings stripped
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from the library zip, reducing the size and slightly improving cold startup
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time. Bundled plugins are unchanged for the moment, but if adding other new
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plugins to an all-in-one installation, ensure they are compiled and
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installed with -O1 or help may not work. (Martin [gz])
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* Lock methods on ``Tree``, ``Branch`` and ``Repository`` are now
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expected to return an object which can be used to unlock them. This reduces
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duplicate code when using cleanups. The previous 'tokens's returned by
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``Branch.lock_write`` and ``Repository.lock_write`` are now attributes
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on the result of the lock_write. ``repository.RepositoryWriteLockResult``
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and ``branch.BranchWriteLockResult`` document this. (Robert Collins)
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* ``Repository.refresh_data`` may now be called in a write group on
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pack-based repositories. Older repositories will still raise an error
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in this case. Subclasses of ``Repository`` can still override
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``Repository._refresh_data``, but are now responsible for raising
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``bzrlib.repository.IsInWriteGroupError`` if they do not support
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``refresh_data`` during a write group.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #574236)
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* ``chk_map._bytes_to_text_key`` is now an optimized function to extract
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the (file-id, revision-id) key from a CHKInventory entry. This can
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potentially shave 5-10% time off during a large fetch. Related to bug
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#562666. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* ``log._get_info_for_log_files`` now takes an add_cleanup callable.
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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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Command is now transient and only exists for the duration of ``run()``.
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This is the first beta of the 2.2 series, leading up to a 2.2.0
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release in July or August. Beta releases are suitable for everyday use
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but may cause some incompatibilities with plugins. Some plugins may need
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small updates to work with 2.2b1.
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2.2b1 includes some changes to make merge conflicts easier to understand
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and resolve. It also removes some old unnecessary code, and loads
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somewhat less code at startup. It starts adding a common infrastructure
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for dealing with colocated named branches, which can be implemented in
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various ways in either bzr native or foreign formats. On Ubuntu and
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other platforms with the apport bug-reporting library, there's an easier
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path to report problems with bzr. We plan to continue with these themes
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through the 2.2 series.
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Over thirty bugs have been fixed, including in the log command, exporting
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to tarballs, restarting interrupted system calls, portability of compiled
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extensions, making backups during upgrade, and locking on ftp.
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:2.1.2: NOT RELEASED YET
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This release fixes two critical networking issues with older servers and
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with interrupted system call errors when pushing or pulling. We recommend
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upgrading to anyone running a 2.1.x version of bzr.
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* ``bzr clean-tree`` should not delete nested bzrdirs. Required for proper
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support of bzr-externals and scmproj plugins.
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(Alexander Belchenko, bug #572098)
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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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* Do not register a SIGWINCH signal handler, instead just poll for the
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terminal width as needed. This avoids the "Interrupted System Call"
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problems that occur on POSIX with all currently released versions of
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(Andrew Bennetts, #583941)
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* Fixed ``AssertionError`` when accessing smart servers running Bazaar
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versions before 1.6.
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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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errors compared to registering ``signal.signal`` directly.
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(Andrew Bennetts)
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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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* Support Pyrex 0.9.9, required changing how we handle exceptions in Pyrex.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #582656)
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* 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.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #583486)
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permissions as ``.bzr`` directory on a POSIX OS.
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(Parth Malwankar, #262450)
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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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* 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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* 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)
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* 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.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #583486)
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can have a large effect on ``bzr checkout`` times. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* selftest now supports a --parallel option, with values of 'fork' or
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'subprocess' to run the test suite in parallel. Currently only linux
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machine work, other platforms need patches submitted. (Robert Collins,
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'subprocess' to run the test suite in parallel. Currently only Linux
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machines work, other platforms need patches submitted. (Robert Collins,
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Vincent Ladeuil)
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* ``tests.run_suite`` has a new parameter ``suite_decorators``, a list of
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