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:Codename: Monkey Magic
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:2.2b4: NOT RELEASED YET
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* bzrlib library users now need to call ``__enter__`` and ``__exit__`` on
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the result of ``bzrlib.initialize``. This change was made when fixing
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the bad habit recent bzr versions have had of leaving progress bars
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behind on the screen. That required calling another function before
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exiting the program, and it made sense to provide a full context
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manager at the same time. (Robert Collins)
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* ``bzrlib.re_compile_checked`` is now deprecated. Caller should handle
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``bzrlib.errors.InvalidPattern`` exception thrown by ``re.match`` in
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case the default error message not suitable for the use case.
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* The ``bzr`` front end now requires a ``bzrlib.ui.ui_factory`` which is a
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context manager in the Python 2.5 and above sense. The bzrlib base class
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is such a manager, but third party UI factories which do not derive from
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``bzrlib.ui.UIFactory`` will be incompatible with the command line front
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* URLs like ``foo:bar/baz`` are now always parsed as a URL with scheme "foo"
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and path "bar/baz", even if bzr does not recognize "foo" as a known URL
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scheme. Previously these URLs would be treated as local paths.
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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 branch`` to a new repository with a default stacking policy no
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longer transfers the full history unnecessarily.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #597942)
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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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linear ancetries. (Vincent Ladeuil, #575631)
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* ``bzr log -r branch:REMOTE`` can now properly log the remote branch,
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rather than trying to fetch the data locally and failing because of a
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readonly error. (Martin von Gagern, #149270)
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* ``bzr pull`` now works when a lp: URL is explicitly defined as the parent
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or pull location in locations.conf or branch.conf.
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(Gordon Tyler, #534787)
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* ``bzr reconfigure --unstacked`` now works with branches accessed via a
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smart server. (Andrew Bennetts, #551525)
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* ``BzrDir.find_branches`` should ignore branches with missing repositories.
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(Marius Kruger, Robert Collins)
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* ``BzrDir.find_bzrdirs`` should ignore dirs that raises PermissionDenied.
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(Marius Kruger, Robert Collins)
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* Ensure that wrong path specifications in ``BZR_PLUGINS_AT`` display
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proper error messages. (Vincent Ladeuil, #591215)
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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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* Fetching was slightly confused about the best code to use and was
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using a new code path for all branches, resulting in more lookups than
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necessary on old branches. (Robert Collins, #593515)
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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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* Invalid patterns supplied to ``Globster`` or ``lazy_regex`` now raise
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``InvalidPattern`` exception showing clear error message to the user.
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(Parth Malwankar #300062)
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* Progress bars prefer to truncate the text message rather than the
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counters. The spinner is shown between the network transfer indicator
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and the progress message. (Martin Pool)
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* Progress output is cleaned up when exiting. (Aaron Bentley)
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* Raise ValueError instead of a string exception.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #586926)
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* Relative imports in plugins are now handled correctly when using
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BZR_PLUGINS_AT. (Vincent Ladeuil, #588959)
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* ``ScriptRunner`` now strips off leading indentation from test scripts,
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which previously caused "SyntaxError: No command for line".
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* Show unicode filenames in diff headers using terminal encoding.
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(Alexander Belchenko, Bug #382699)
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NOTE for Windows users: If user need to save diff to file then user need to
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change encoding of the terminal to ANSI encoding with command ``chcp XXX``
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(e.g. ``chcp 1251`` for Russian Windows).
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* URL displayed for use with ``break-lock`` when smart server sees lock
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contention are now valid. Default timeout for lock contention retry is
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now 30 seconds instead of 300 seconds.
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(Parth Malwankar, #250451)
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* ``walkdirs`` now raises a useful message when the filenames are not using
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the filesystem encoding. (Eric Moritz, #488519)
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* Enable debugging of bzr on windows with pdb and other tools. This was
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broken because we call GetCommandLineW on windows. The fix adjusts the
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command line we get to be the same length as sys.argv.
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(Jason Spashett, Alexander Belchenko, #587868)
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* Bazaar now reads data from SSH connections more efficiently on platforms
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that provide the ``socketpair`` function, and when using paramiko.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #590637)
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* ``Branch.copy_content_into`` is now a convenience method dispatching to
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a ``InterBranch`` multi-method. This permits ``bzr-loom`` and other
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plugins to intercept this even when a ``RemoteBranch`` proxy is in use.
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(Robert Collins, #201613)
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* ``Branch`` formats can now be loaded lazily by registering a
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``MetaDirBranchFormatFactory`` rather than an actual format. This will
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cause the named format class to be loaded only when an enumeration of
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formats is needed or when the format string for the object is
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encountered. (Robert Collins, Jelmer Vernooij)
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* The encoding that bzr uses to output things other than file content can
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now be overridden via the output_encoding configuration option.
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(Martin Pool, #340394)
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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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* Remove obsolete discussion of PQM in documentation about how to
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contribute to Bazaar. (Martin Pool, #588444)
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* ``bzrlib.branch.InterBranch._get_branch_formats_to_test`` now returns
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an iterable of format pairs, rather than just a single pair, permitting
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InterBranch objects that work with multiple permutations to be
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comprehensively tested. (Robert Collins)
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* ``bzrlib.lsprof.profile`` will no longer silently generate bad threaded
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profiles when concurrent profile requests are made. Instead the profile
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requests will be serialised. Reentrant requests will now deadlock.
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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. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* ``bzrlib.tests.blackbox.ExternalBase`` is deprecated. It provided only
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one method ``check_output``, and we now recommend checking command
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output using ``run_script``. (Martin Pool)
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* ``bzrlib.transport.ssh.SSHVendor.connect_ssh`` now returns an object
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that implements the interface of ``bzrlib.transport.ssh.SSHConnection``.
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Third-party implementations of ``SSHVendor`` may need to be updated
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accordingly. Similarly, any code using ``SSHConnection`` directly will
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need to be updated. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* The constructor of ``bzrilb.smart.medium.SmartSSHClientMedium`` has
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changed to take an ``SSHParams`` instance (replacing many individual
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values). (Andrew Bennetts)
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* ``bzrlib.osutils.get_terminal_encoding`` will now only mutter its
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selection when explicitly requested; this avoids many duplicate calls
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being logged when helpers, wrappers and older code that manually calls
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it are executed it is now logged deliberately by the ui setup code.
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* Improved ``bzrlib.urlutils`` to handle lp:foo/bar URLs. (Gordon Tyler)
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* ``bzrlib._c_static_tuple.StaticTuple`` now implements ``__sizeof__``, so
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that ``sys.getsizeof`` and other memory analysis tools will report more
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accurate results. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* The symbol_versioning module can now cleanup after itself -
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``suppress_deprecation_warnings`` now returns a cleanup function.
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* Add ``bzrlib.tests.fixtures`` to hold code for setting up objects
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to test. (Martin Pool)
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* ``test_import_tariff`` now respects BZR_PLUGINS_AT and BZR_PLUGINS_DISABLE.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #595587)
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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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whoami``. (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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