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:2.5b2: NOT RELEASED YET
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External Compatibility Breaks
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.. These may require users to change the way they use Bazaar.
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.. New commands, options, etc that users may wish to try out.
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.. Improvements to existing commands, especially improved performance
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or memory usage, or better results.
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.. Fixes for situations where bzr would previously crash or give incorrect
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or undesirable results.
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.. Improved or updated documentation.
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.. Changes that may require updates in plugins or other code that uses
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.. Major internal changes, unlikely to be visible to users or plugin
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developers, but interesting for bzr developers.
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.. Fixes and changes that are only relevant to bzr's test framework and
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suite. This can include new facilities for writing tests, fixes to
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spurious test failures and changes to the way things should be tested.
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This is the first beta of the 2.5 series, leading up to a 2.5.0
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release in February 2012. 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 2.5b1.
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External Compatibility Breaks
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* A ``from_unicode`` parameter can be specified when registering a config
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option. This implements boolean, integer and list config options when the
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provided ``bool_from_store``, ``int_from_store`` and ``list_from_store``
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are used for this parameter. (Vincent Ladeuil)
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* Accessing a packaging branch on Launchpad (eg, ``lp:ubuntu/bzr``) now
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checks to see if the most recent published source package version for
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that project is present in the branch tags. This should help developers
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trust whether the packaging branch is up-to-date and can be used for new
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changes. The level of verbosity is controlled by the config item
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``launchpad.packaging_verbosity``. It can be set to one of
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only display if the branch is out-of-date
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also display single-line up-to-date and missing,
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(default) display multi-line content for all states
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(John Arbash Meinel, #609187, #812928)
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* Add a config option gpg_signing_key for setting which GPG key should
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be used to sign commits. Also default to using the gpg user identity
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which matches user_email() as set by whoami.
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(Jonathan Riddell, #68501)
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* An ``invalid`` parameter can be specified when registering a config option
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to decide what should be done when invalid values are
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encountered. 'warning' and 'error' will respectively emit a warning and
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ignore the value or errors out. (Vincent Ladeuil)
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* bzr add now skips large files in recursive mode. The default "large"
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size is 20MB, and is configurable via the add.maximum_file_size
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option. A value of 0 disables skipping. Named items passed to add are
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never skipped. (Shannon Weyrick, #54624)
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* ``bzr help configuration/<option>`` display the help for ``option`` for
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all registered configuration options. (Vincent Ladeuil, #747050)
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* ``bzr log -m`` now matches message, author, committer and bugs instead
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of just matching the message. ``--message`` keeps its original meaning,
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while ``--match-message, --match-author, --match-committer`` and
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``--match-bugs`` match each of those fields. (Jacek Sieka)
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* ``config.Option`` can now declare ``default_from_env``, a list of
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environment variables to get a default value from. (Vincent Ladeuil)
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* ``config.NameMatcher`` can be used to implement config stores and stacks
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that need to provide specific option values for arbitrary unique IDs (svn
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repository UUIDs, etc). (Vincent Ladeuil, #843638)
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* New builtin ``bzr branches`` command, which lists all colocated branches
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in a directory. (Jelmer Vernooij, #826820)
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* Relative local paths can now be specified in URL syntax by using the
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"file:" prefix. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* Report commits signed with expired keys in ``verify-signatures``.
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(Jonathan Riddell, #804254)
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* Translations are now enabled for command help, errors and globally
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for any message using gettext given on output. (Jonathan Riddell,
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* ``bzr add`` will now warn about nested subtrees that are skipped.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #187342)
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* ``bzr commit -m ''`` can now be used to force an empty commit message.
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Entering an empty commit message in the message editor still triggers
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an error. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* ``bzr pull`` will now mention how many tags it has updated.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #164450)
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* ``bzr tag`` no longer errors if a tag already exists but refers to the
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same revision, and will mention when a tag has been updated
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rather than created. (Jelmer Vernooij, #381203)
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* ``bzr uncommit`` will now remove tags that refer to removed revisions.
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The ``--keep-tags`` option can be used to prevent this behaviour.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #605814)
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* Do not run i18n initialisation twice. (Jonathan Riddell)
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* Install translation .mo files. (Jonathan Riddell)
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* Locations printed by ``bzr upgrade`` are now formatted before display.
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* ``Repository.get_parent_map`` now estimates the size of the returned
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content more accurately. This means that we get closer to the desired
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64kB/request. For repositories converted from svn, this can be an
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improvement of approx 5:1 in round trips to discover the whole history.
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* Support a ``bugtracker`` option which is used by ``bzr commit --fixes``
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if no bug tracker was specified on the command line.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #334860)
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* Use gettext.NullTranslations in i18n to allow use of i18n even when
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translations are not turned on. (Jonathan Riddell)
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* ``bzr commit`` now correctly reports missing files as "removed", not
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"modified". (Jelmer Vernooij, #553955)
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* ``bzr reconfigure`` will now allow multiple non-conflicting requests
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in a single invocation, e.g. ``--branch`` and ``--use-shared``.
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(Martin von Gagern, #842993)
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* A call to CHKInventory's filter-method will not result in a
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DuplicateFileId error, if you move a subfolder and change a file in
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(Bastian Bowe, #809901)
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* Branching from a stacked branch no longer does a ``get_parent_map``
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request for each revisions that is in the stacked-on repository while
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determining what revisions need to be fetched. This mostly impacts
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branching initialy into an empty shared repository when the source is
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not the development focus. (John Arbash Meinel, #388269)
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* Decode ``BZR_HOME`` with fs encoding on posix platforms to avoid unicode
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errors. (Vincent Ladeuil, #822571)
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* Fix fallout from URL handling changes in 2.5 that caused an IndexError to be
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raised whenever a transport at the drive root was opened on windows.
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(Martin [gz], #841322)
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* Fixed loading of external merge tools from config to properly decode
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command-lines which contain embedded quotes. (Gordon Tyler, #828803)
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* Rather than an error being raised, a warning is now printed when the
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current user does not have permission to read a configuration file.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #837324)
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* The pull command will now always use separate connections for the
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case where the destination is a heavyweight checkout of some remote
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branch on the same host as the source branch.
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(Martin von Gagern, #483661)
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* TreeTransformBase.fixup_new_roots no longer forces trees to have a root, so
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operations that use it, like merge, can now create trees without a root.
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* Release instructions refreshed. (Vincent Ladeuil)
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* ``BranchFormat.initialize`` now takes a ``append_revisions_only``
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argument. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* ``Branch._get_checkout_format`` now takes a ``lightweight`` argument
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which indicates if the format should be for a lightweight or a
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heavyweight checkout. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* ``ControlDir.create_branch`` now takes a ``append_revisions_only`` argument.
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* New class ``URL`` in ``bzrlib.utils`` for managing parsed URLs.
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* New method ``Config.get_user_option_as_int_from_SI`` added for expanding a
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value in SI format (i.e. "20MB", "1GB") into its integer equivalent.
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* New method ``InterTree.file_content_matches`` which checks that
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two files in different trees have the same contents.
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* New method ``Tree.get_file_verifier`` which allows tree implementations
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to return non-sha1 checksums to verify files.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #720831)
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* New methods ``get_transport_from_path`` and ``get_transport_from_url``
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have been added that only support opening from a path or a URL,
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unlike ``get_transport``. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* New registry ``OptionRegistry`` specialized for configuration options.
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* Remove ``AtomicFile.closed`` which has been deprecated in bzr 0.10.
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* Remove ``commands._builtin_commands``, ``commands.shlex_split_unicode``,
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``Command._maybe_expand_globs`` and ``Command.run_direct`` deprecated in
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2.10 and 2.2.0. (Vincent Ladeuil)
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* Remove ``diff.get_trees_and_branches_to_diff`` deprecated in 2.2.0.
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* Remove ``log.calculate_view_revisions``, ``log._filter_revision_range``,
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``log.get_view_revisions`` which have been deprecated in bzr 2.1.0. Also
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remove ``log.show_one_log`` which was never properly deprecated but wasn't
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used and is easy to inline if needed. (Vincent Ladeuil)
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* Remove ``trace.info``, ``trace.error`` and ``trace.show_log_error``
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deprecated in 2.1.0. (Vincent Ladeuil)
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* Remove ``TransportListRegistry.set_default_transport``, as the concept of
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a default transport is currently unused. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* Remove ``UIFactory.warn_cross_format_fetch`` and
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``UIFactory.warn_experimental_format_fetch`` in favor of
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``UIFactory.show_user_warning``. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* ``Tags`` containers can now declare whether they support versioned
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tags and whether tags can refer to ghost tags.
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* ``Tags.merge_to`` now returns a dictionary with the updated tags
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and a set of conflicts, rather than just conflicts. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* There is a new class `ContentFilterTree` that provides a facade for
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content filtering. The `filtered` parameter to `export` is deprecated
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in favor of passing a filtered tree, and the specific exporter plugins
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no longer support it.
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* ``Transport`` now has a ``_parsed_url`` attribute instead of
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separate ``_user``, ``_password``, ``_port``, ``_scheme``, ``_host``
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and ``_path`` attributes. Proxies are provided for the moment but
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may be removed in the future. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* A new debug flag ``hpss_client_no_vfs`` will now cause the HPSS client
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to raise a ``HpssVfsRequestNotAllowed`` exception when a VFS request
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is attempted. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* New method ``ControlDir._get_selected_branch`` which returns the
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colocated branch selected using path segment parameters.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #380871)
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* Blackbox tests (including test scripts) can be debugged interactively (see
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bzrlib.debug.BzrPdb for details). (Vincent Ladeuil)
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* `BranchBuilder.build_snapshot` now supports a "flush" action. This
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cleanly and reliably allows tests using `BranchBuilder` to construct
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branches that e.g. rename files out of a directory and unversion that
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directory in the same revision. Previously some changes were impossible
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due to the order that `build_snapshot` performs its actions.
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* Don't require ``os.fdatasync`` to be defined on all supported OSes
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(BSD-based OSes don't define it). (Vincent Ladeuil, #822649)
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* Fix compatibility with testtools 0.9.12. (Jelmer Vernooij, #815423)
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* ``LockDir`` can now be run when the local hostname is ``localhost``.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #825994)
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* ``ModuleAvailableFeature`` won't try to import already imported modules,
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allowing it to be used for modules with side-effects.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #712474)
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* Output time stamps while running ``make check`` to get better timings from
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pqm. (Vincent Ladeuil, #837926)
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* `TestCaseWithMemoryTransport` is faster now: `_check_safety_net` now
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just compares the bytes in the dirstate file to its pristine state,
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rather than opening the WorkingTree and calling ``last_revision()``.
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This reduces the overall test suite time by about 10% on my laptop.
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* Update `TestCase.knownFailure` to the testtools way of handling expected
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failures to resolve Python 2.7 incompatibility. (Martin [gz], #607400)
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