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:2.3b1: NOT RELEASED YET
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* BzrError subclasses no longer support the name "message" to be used
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as an argument for __init__ or in _fmt format specification as this
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breaks in some Python versions. errors.LockError.__init__ argument
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is now named "msg" instead of earlier "message".
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(Parth Malwankar, #603461)
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* `FileInWrongBranch` is deprecated in favour of `PathNotChild` and no
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* `tree_files` and `internal_tree_files` are now deprecated in favor of
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`WorkingTree.open_containing_paths`.
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* The old ``bzr selftest --benchmark`` option has been removed.
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<https://launchpad.net/bzr-usertest> is an actively-maintained
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* The ``lp:`` prefix will now use your known username (from
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``bzr launchpad-login``) to expand ``~`` to your username. For example:
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``bzr launchpad-login user && bzr push lp:~/project/branch`` will now
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push to ``lp:~user/project/branch``. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* Allow using both --using and --diff-options.
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(Matthäus G. Chajdas, #234708)
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* ``bzr add SYMLINK/FILE`` now works properly when the symlink points to a
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previously-unversioned directory within the tree: the directory is
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(Martin Pool, #192859)
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* ``bzr ignore PATTERNS`` exits with error if a bad pattern is supplied.
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``InvalidPattern`` exception error message now shows faulting
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(Parth Malwankar #300062)
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* CommitBuilder now uses the committer instead of _config.username to generate
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the revision-id. (Aaron Bentley, #614404)
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* Cope with Microsoft FTP Server and VSFTPd that return reply '250
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Directory created' when mkdir succeeds. (Martin Pool, #224373)
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* Decrease peak memory during ``bzr send``. The old code was caching all
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text content and all inventory strings for all revisions before
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computing the diffs. Now we only cache as long as there is a child that
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will need them. Sending 2000 bzr revisions drops from 1.2GB peak to
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256MB peak. (John Arbash Meinel, #614576)
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* Don't print internal object name when print an invalid revision spec
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error. (Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #598701)
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* Fix ``AttributeError on parent.children`` when adding a file under a
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directory that was a symlink in the previous commit.
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(Martin Pool, #192859)
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* ``HTTP/1.1`` test servers now set a ``Content-Length`` header to comply
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with pedantic ``HTTP/1.1`` clients. (Vincent Ladeuil, #568421)
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* `PathNotChild` should not give a traceback.
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* Prevent ``CHKMap.apply_delta`` from generating non-canonical CHK maps,
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which can result in "missing referenced chk root keys" errors when
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fetching from repositories with affected revisions.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #522637)
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* ``Transport.stat`` on a symlink, including a transport pointing directly
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to a symlink, now returns information about the symlink.
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* Inventory entries now consume less memory (on 32-bit Ubuntu file entries
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have dropped from 68 bytes to 40, and directory entries from 120 bytes
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to 48). (Andrew Bennetts)
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* When building new working trees, default to reading from the repository
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rather than the source tree unless explicitly requested. (via
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``--files-from`` and ``--hardlink`` for ``bzr branch`` and
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``bzr checkout``. Generally, 2a format repositories extract
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content faster than seeking and reading content from another tree,
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especially in cold-cache situations. (John Arbash Meinel, #607298)
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* Added a builder/writer sphinx extension that can generate texinfo files. The
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generated files are syntactically correct but the info navigation nodes
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needs more work. (Vincent Ladeuil, #219334)
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* First tests defined for sphinx, including a new bzrlib.tests.features.sphinx
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to make the tests conditional.
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* Fix a lot of references in the docs to the old http://bazaar-vcs.org to
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the new http://bazaar.canonical.com or http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com
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(John Arbash Meinel, #617503)
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* InventoryEntry instances now raise AttributeError if you try to assign
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to attributes that are irrelevant to that kind of entry. e.g. setting
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``symlink_target`` on an InventoryFile will fail. It is still okay to
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read those attributes on any kind of InventoryEntry. The complete list
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of affected attributes is: ``executable``, ``text_id``, ``text_sha1``,
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``text_size`` (only valid for kind == file); ``symlink_target`` (only
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valid for kind == link); and ``reference_revision`` (only valid for kind
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== tree-reference). (Andrew Bennetts)
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* InventoryEntry objects no longer have ``_put_in_tar`` or
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``_put_on_disk`` methods. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* Remove used and broken code path in ``BranchInitHookParams.__repr__``.
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* The way ``bzr selftest --parallel`` generates N partitions of tests to
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run in parallel has changed. Instead of splitting the list of tests at
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N-1 points, it distributes the tests one-by-one into the partitions in a
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round robin fashion. This reduces the total time to run the tests in
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parallel because a series of slow tests in the test suite will be
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distributed evenly among the parallel test suites, rather than slowing
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down just one suite. (Andrew Bennetts)
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:2.2.1: NOT RELEASED YET
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* ``bzr add SYMLINK/FILE`` now works properly when the symlink points to a
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previously-unversioned directory within the tree: the directory is
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marked versioned too.
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(Martin Pool, #192859)
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* CommitBuilder now uses the committer instead of _config.username to generate
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the revision-id. (Aaron Bentley, #614404)
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* Cope with Microsoft FTP server that returns reply '250 Directory
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created' when mkdir succeeds. (Martin Pool, #224373)
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* Fix ``AttributeError on parent.children`` when adding a file under a
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directory that was a symlink in the previous commit.
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(Martin Pool, #192859)
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* Fix a lot of references in the docs to the old http://bazaar-vcs.org to
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the new http://bazaar.canonical.com or http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com
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(John Arbash Meinel, #617503)
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* Remove used and broken code path in ``BranchInitHookParams.__repr__``.
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This release marks the start of another long-term-stable series. From
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here, we will only make bugfix releases on the 2.2 series (2.2.1, etc),
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while 2.3 will become our new development series. The 2.0 and 2.1 series
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will also continue to get bugfixes. (Currently 2.0 is planned to be
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supported for another 6 months.)
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This is primarily a bugfix and polish release over the 2.1 series, with
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a large number of bugs fixed (>120), and some performance improvements.
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There are some compatibility changes in this release. For users of bzrlib
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as a library, we now request that they call ``bzrlib.initialize`` and use
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the returned context manager appropriately. For commandline users we no
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longer guess user identity for ``bzr commit``, users must specify their
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identity using ``bzr whoami`` (you don't need to specify your identity for
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readonly operations).
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Users are encouraged to upgrade from the other stable series.
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* BzrError subclasses no longer support the name "message" to be used
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as an argument for __init__ or in _fmt format specification as this
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breaks in some Python versions. errors.LockError.__init__ argument
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is now named "msg" instead of earlier "message".
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(Parth Malwankar, #603461)
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* The old ``bzr selftest --benchmark`` option has been removed.
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<https://launchpad.net/bzr-usertest> is an actively-maintained
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macrobenchmark suite.
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* ``bzr ignore PATTERNS`` exits with error if a bad pattern is supplied.
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``InvalidPattern`` exception error message now shows faulting
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(Parth Malwankar #300062)
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* Configuration files in ``${BZR_HOME}`` are now written in an atomic
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way which should help avoid problems with concurrent writers.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #525571)
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* Don't traceback trying to unversion children files of an already
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unversioned directory. (Vincent Ladeuil, #494221)
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* ``HTTP/1.1`` test servers now set a ``Content-Length`` header to comply
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with pedantic ``HTTP/1.1`` clients. (Vincent Ladeuil, #568421)
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* 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. Progress bars are correctly cleared off when
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they finish. (Martin Pool, #611127)
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* Recursive binding for checkouts is now detected by bzr. A clear error
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message is shown to the user. (Parth Malwankar, #405192)
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* Add ``bzrlib.merge.MergeIntoMerger``, which can merge part or all of a
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tree, and works with unrelated branches. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* Add py2exe windows target ``bzrw.exe``. This allow for starting a Bazaar
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GUI with out have a console open in the background.
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(Gary van der Merwe, #433781)
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* ``bzr help patterns`` now explains case insensitive patterns and
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points to Python regular expression documentation.
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(Parth Malwankar, #594386)
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* Delete ``ProgressTask.note``, which was deprecated in 2.1.
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* Unit test added to ensure that "message" is not uses as a format variable
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name in BzrError subclasses as this conflicts with some Python versions.
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(Parth Malwankar, #603461)
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:Codename: Monkey Magic
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This fourth and final beta in the 2.2 series now stabilizes the internal
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APIs. Plugin authors are recommended to ensure their releases are
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compatible, so that 2.2rc1 can be a true release candidate, containing
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stable and compatible plugin versions.
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For users of bzrlib as a library, one of the primary changes is to request
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that they call ``bzrlib.initialize`` and use the returned context manager
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Better interaction with ``bzr-loom`` to make sure branching from a loom
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even over a smart server still yields a local loom. Not to mention lots of
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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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* 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 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.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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* ``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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