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:2.5b5: NOT RELEASED YET
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.. These may require users to change the way they use Bazaar.
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* The '.bzr/branch/email' file is no longer read to determine the users'
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identity. Instead, the 'email' setting in '.bzr/branch/branch.conf'
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should be used. (Jelmer Vernooij, #903894)
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.. New commands, options, etc that users may wish to try out.
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* "bzr mkdir" now includes -p (--parents) option for recursively adding
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(Jared Hance, Jelmer Vernooij, #253529)
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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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* New HPSS call for ``Repository.reconcile``. (Jelmer Vernooij, #894455)
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* Merge now has two new hooks ``pre_merge`` and ``post_merge``
40
that are called before and after a merge and can make
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additional modifications to the trees involved.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #906877)
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* Override the value returned by ``sys.getfilesystemencoding()`` for the bzr
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script to utf-8 when it would otherwise be ascii on a posix system. This
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will mean bzr works with non-ascii files when no locale or an incorrect
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locale is set. (Martin Packman, #794353)
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* ``bzr branches`` now indicates the active colocated branch.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #891667)
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* ``bzr push`` now suggests using :parent if there is a parent location
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set. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* ``bzr send`` now only opens a single connection, rather than two,
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to the target branch. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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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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* Allow configuration option default value to be a python callable at
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registration. (Vincent Ladeuil, #832064)
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* ``bzr config`` will now display the section ``[DEFAULT]`` used in
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``bazaar.conf``. (Vincent Ladeuil, #907268)
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* Configuration stores can now provides a specific quoting mechanism. This
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is required to workaround ``configobj`` conflating quoting and list values
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automatic conversion. (Vincent Ladeuil, #906897)
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* Create obsolete_packs directory when repacking if it does not
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exist. (Jonathan Riddell, Jelmer Vernooij, #314314)
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* Fallback to the slower ``bzr log`` implementation when displaying a range
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of revisions whose ancestry is not obviously on the same developement
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line. (Vincent Ladeuil, #904744)
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* Not setting ``gpg_signing_key`` or setting it to ``default`` will use the
82
user email (obtained from the ``email`` configuration option or its
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default value). (Vincent Ladeuil, Jelmer Vernooij, #904550)
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* Prevent spurious InconsistentDelta error when committing a move of a
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non-ascii directory with contents. (Rory Yorke, #185211)
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* Properly ignore '\n' in an option reference since this cannot be part of a
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config option identifier. (Vincent Ladeuil, #902125)
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* Make sure that the bzr probers are always registered when
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bzrlib.workingtree is imported. (Jelmer Vernooij, #905218)
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* Report mistake trying to move a removed file with a non-ascii name without
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UnicodeEncodeError being raised. (Martin Packman, #898541)
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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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* ``Config.signature_needed``, ``Config.signing_policy``,
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``Config.gpg_signing_key``, ``Config.gpg_signing_command``,
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``Config.checking_policy`` and ``Config.post_commit`` are now deprecated.
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* ``Repository.get_commit_builder`` now takes a ``config_stack``
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rather than a ``config`` argument. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* Send formats now accept a new optional argument ``submit_branch``,
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which can be None or a Branch object for the submit branch location.
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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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* ``bzrlib.urlutils`` now includes ``quote`` and ``unquote`` functions,
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rather than importing them from ``urllib``. This prevents loading
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of the ``socket``, ``ssl`` and ``urllib`` modules for
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local bzr operations. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* Configuration options can be SI units by using ``int_SI_from_unicode`` as
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their ``convert_from_unicode`` helper. (Vincent Ladeuil)
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* ControlDir now has a get_branches method that returns a dictionary
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whose keys are the names of the branches and whose values are the
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branches themselves. The active branch uses the key None.
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(Neil Martinsen-Burrell)
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* Helper ``osutils.path_from_environ`` added for extracting a unicode path
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from an environment variable. (Martin Packman, #832028)
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* Helper ``win32utils.get_environ_unicode`` added for avoiding encoding
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problems with ``os.environ.get`` use. (Martin Packman, #262874)
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* Lazy imports can now only be absolute. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* New HPSS call ``BzrDir.checkout_metadir``. (Jelmer Vernooij, #894459)
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* New HPSS call ``VersionedFileRepository.get_inventories``,
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speeding up various commands including ``bzr export``,
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``bzr checkout`` and ``bzr cat``. (Jelmer Vernooij, #608640)
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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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* New matcher ``ContainsNoVfsCalls`` which filters a list of HPSS
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calls for VFS requests. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* New ``MemoryStack`` class allows for diskless tests and locally injected
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configuration stacks. Lower level tests for predefined set of options can
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be written without setting up configuration files. (Vincent Ladeuil)
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This is the fourth beta of the 2.5 series, leading to a 2.5.0 release in
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February 2012. Beta releases are suitable for everyday use but may cause
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some incompatibilities with plugins.
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This release includes many improvements in the smart server, UI polish for
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the colocated branches, optimizations for revision specifiers to avoid
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history sized operations, enhancements to the config framework, bug fixes
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related to unicode paths and more.
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All bug fixed in previous series known at the time of this release are
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External Compatibility Breaks
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*****************************
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* Provides a ``po_merge`` plugin to automatically merge ``.po`` files with
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``msgmerge``. See ``bzr help po_merge`` for details.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #884270)
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* ``bzr branch --stacked`` now only makes a single connection to the remote
201
server rather than three. (Jelmer Vernooij, #444293)
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* ``bzr export --uncommitted`` will export the uncommitted tree.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #555613)
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* ``bzr rmbranch`` can now remove colocated branches.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #831464)
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* ``bzr status`` no longer shows shelves if files are specified.
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* ``bzr switch`` now accepts colocated branch names to switch to.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #826814)
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* Plugins can now register additional "location aliases".
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* ``bzr status`` no longer shows shelves if files are specified.
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* Revision specifiers will now only browse as much history as they
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need to, rather than grabbing the whole history unnecessarily in some
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cases. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* When using ``bzr switch`` to switch to a sibling of the current
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branch, the relative branch name should no longer be url-encoded.
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* A new section local option ``basename`` is available to help support some
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``bzr-pipeline`` workflows and more generally help mapping local paths to
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remote ones. See ``bzr help configuration`` for more details.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #843211)
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* Add HPSS call for looking up revision numbers from revision ids on
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remote repositories. (Jelmer Vernooij, #640253)
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* Add HPSS call for retrieving file contents from remote repositories.
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Should improve performance for lightweight checkouts and exports of
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from remote repositories. (Jelmer Vernooij, #368717, #762330,
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* Allow lazy compiled patterns from ``bzrlib.lazy_regex`` to be
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pickled. (Jelmer Vernooij, #893149)
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* ``bzr info`` no longer shows empty output if only a control
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directory is present. (Jelmer Vernooij, #159098)
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* Cope with missing revision ids being specified to
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``Repository.gather_stats`` HPSS call. (Jelmer Vernooij, #411290)
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* Fix test failures on windows related to locations.conf handling.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #892992)
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* Fixed parsing of the timestamp given to ``commit --commit-time``. Now
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prohibits several invalid strings, reads the correct number of seconds,
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and gives a better error message if the time zone offset is not given.
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(Matt Giuca, #892657)
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* Give meaningful file/line references when reporting deprecation warnings
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for _CompatabilityThunkFeature based test features.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #897718)
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* Make reporting of mistakes involving unversioned files with non-ascii
267
filenames work again without 'Unprintable exception' being shown.
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(Martin Packman, #898408)
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* Provide names for lazily registered hooks.
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(Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #894609)
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* Raise BadIndexKey exception in btree_index when a key is too large, fixing
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an infinite recursion issue. (Shannon Weyrick, #720853)
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* Resolve regression from colocated branch path handling, by ensuring that
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unreserved characters are unquoted in URLs. (Martin Packman, #842223)
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* Split segments from URLs for colocated branches without assuming the
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combined form is valid. (Martin Packman, #842233)
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* Support looking up revision numbers by revision id in empty branches.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #535031)
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* Support verifying signatures on remote repositories.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #889694)
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* Teach the bzr client how to reconnect if we get ``ConnectionReset``
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while making an RPC request. This doesn't handle all possible network
290
disconnects, but it should at least handle when the server is asked to
291
shutdown gracefully. (John Arbash Meinel, #819604)
293
* When a remote format is unknown, bzr will now print a single-line error
294
message rather than a backtrace. (Jelmer Vernooij, #687226)
299
* ``BzrDir.open_branch`` and ``BranchFormat.open`` now take an optional
300
``possible_transports`` argument. (Jelmer Vernooij)
302
* New method ``Transport.set_segment_parameter``. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* ``Repository.verify_revision`` has been renamed to
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``Repository.verify_revision_signature``. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* ``RevisionSpec.wants_revision_history`` now defaults to ``False`` and
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is deprecated. The ``revs`` argument of
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``RevisionInfo.from_revision_id`` is now deprecated. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* ``Tree.get_file_by_path`` is now deprecated. Use ``Tree.get_file`` instead.
312
(Jelmer Vernooij, #666897)
314
* Some global options for use with commands have been removed, construct
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an ``Option`` with the name instead. (Martin Packman)
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* The unused exception ``HistoryMissing`` has been removed.
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* Add HPSS call for ``Repository.pack``. (Jelmer Vernooij, #894461)
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* ``bzr config`` uses the new configuration implementation.
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* Custom HPSS error handlers can now be installed in the smart server client
329
using the ``error_translators`` and ``no_context_error_translators``
330
registries. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* New HPSS calls ``Repository.has_signature_for_revision_id``,
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``Repository.make_working_trees``, ``BzrDir.destroy_repository``,
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``BzrDir.has_workingtree``, ``Repository.get_physical_lock_status``,
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``Branch.get_physical_lock_status``,
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``Branch.put_config_file``, ``Branch.break_lock``,
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``BzrDir.destroy_branch``, ``Repository.break_lock``,
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``VersionedFileRepository.get_serializer_format``,
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``Repository.all_revision_ids``, ``Repository.start_write_group``,
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``Repository.commit_write_group``, ``Repository.abort_write_group``
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``Repository.check_write_group``, ``Repository.iter_revisions``,
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``Repository.add_signature_revision_text`` and
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``Repository.get_revision_signature_text``.
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* Add HPSS call for ``Branch.get_checkout_format``. (Jelmer Vernooij, #894459)
348
* Add HPSS call for ``Repository.pack``. (Jelmer Vernooij, #894461)
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* Add HPSS calls for ``Repository.iter_files_bytes``, speeding up
351
several commands including ``bzr export`` and ``bzr co --lightweight``.
352
(Jelmer Vernooij, #608640)
354
* Custom HPSS error handlers can now be installed in the smart server client
355
using the ``error_translators`` and ``no_context_error_translators``
356
registries. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* ``RemoteBranch.get_config_stack`` and ``RemoteBzrDir.get_config_stack``
359
will now use HPSS calls where possible. (Jelmer Vernooij)
361
* Custom HPSS error handlers can now be installed in the smart server client
362
using the ``error_translators`` and ``no_context_error_translators``
363
registries. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* The registry of merge types has been moved to ``merge`` from ``option`` but
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``merge.get_merge_type_registry`` remains as an accessor. (Martin Packman)
368
* All bzr control directories, branch formats, repository formats and
369
working tree formats now support feature flags, which are
370
serialized in their respective format files. See
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``doc/developers/feature-flags.txt`` for details.
377
* Avoid failures in test_transform when OS error messages are localised.
378
(Martin Packman, #891582)
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* Tests are now subject to a time limit: by default 300s, and 120s when
381
run from 'make check', controlled by the `selftest.timeout`
382
configuration option. This is currently not supported on Windows.
390
This is the third beta of the 2.5 series, leading to a 2.5.0 release in
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February 2012. Beta releases are suitable for everyday use but may cause
392
some incompatibilities with plugins.
394
This release includes log options for ``push`` and ``pull``, more UI polish
395
for colocated branches, a better and more coherent implementation for UI
396
dialogs, enhancements to the config framework and more.
398
This release includes all bug fixed in previous series known at the time of
401
External Compatibility Breaks
402
*****************************
409
* The ``log_format`` configuration can be used with ``-Olog_format=line`` to
410
change the format ``push`` and ``pull`` use to display the
411
revisions. I.e.: ``bzr pull -v -Olog_format=short`` will use the ``short``
412
format instead of the default ``long`` one. (Vincent Ladeuil, #861472)
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* The new config scheme allows an alternative syntax for the 'appenpath'
415
policy relying on option expansion and defining a new 'relpath' option
416
local to a section. Instead of using '<option>:policy=appendpath', the
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option value can de defined as 'option=xxxx/{relpath}'.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #832013)
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* ``bzr info -v`` now shows the number of colocated branches
424
for control directories that support them.
425
(Jelmer Vernooij, #863285)
427
* ``bzr version-info`` now takes a ``--revision`` argument.
428
(Jelmer Vernooij, #238705)
430
* ``bzr revno`` now takes a ``--revision`` argument.
431
(Jelmer Vernooij, #870649)
433
* ``bzr serve`` now can serve from URLs rather than just from the
434
file system. I.e.: ``bzr serve -d lp:bzr`` or
435
``bzr serve -d file:///data/bzr`` (Jelmer Vernooij)
437
* all input prompts are now char-based when possible, and can be forced to
438
line-based mode by setting the ``BZR_TEXTUI_INPUT`` environment variable
439
to 'line-based'. This replace the previous shelf UI only patch using
440
``INSIDE_EMACS``. (Benoît Pierre)
445
* ``bzr info`` now shows the master branch location too for
446
treeless local branches. (Jelmer Vernooij, #258355)
448
* ``bzr mkdir --quiet`` now does not print a line for every created
449
directory. (Martin von Gagern, #869915)
451
* ``bzr mv`` does not crash when attempting to move the root of a
452
branch. (Jonathan Riddell, #809728)
454
* ``bzr shelve`` now use ``UIFactory.choose`` for input handling, making
455
it usable when creating a custom ``UIFactory`` implementation. (Benoît
458
* ``bzr clean-tree`` now use ``UIFactory.get_boolean`` for confirmation
459
prompt, making it usable when using a custom ``UIFactory``
460
implementation. (Benoît Pierre)
462
* If sending a crash through Apport fails report the Apport failure to
463
bzr.log rather than stderr. (Jonathan Riddell, #766735)
465
* ``bzr upgrade`` no longer treats 'already up-to-date' exceptions as
466
errors. (Benoît Pierre, #716560).
468
* ``bzr version-info`` no longer populates the clean state for custom
469
templates unless {clean} is explicitly asked for.
470
(Lawrence Mitchell, #882541)
472
* Fix finding the CPU count when using Python >= 2.6 on BSD-based systems.
473
(Jelmer Vernooij, #887151)
475
* ``WorkingTree.clone()`` now supports its ``revision_id`` being set
476
to the null revision. (Jelmer Vernooij, #876423)
478
* ``WorkingTree.pull`` can now pull ``NULL_REVISION``.
479
(Jelmer Vernooij, #887556)
484
* ``Branch.revision_history`` is now deprecated. (Jelmer Vernooij, #799519)
486
* Methods ``add`` and ``items`` of ``LRUCache`` and ``LRUSizeCache`` are
487
deprecated. Use normal dict-style access instead. (Martin Packman)
489
* New flag ``RepositoryFormat.supports_unreferenced_revisions`` which
490
indicates whether revisions can be present in a repository without
491
being referenced from e.g. a branch history at the same time.
494
* ``UIFactory.choose`` has been added: prompt the user for a list of
495
choices. (Benoît Pierre)
500
* ``ControlDirFormat`` now has a new method ``supports_transport``
501
which format implementations can use whether or not they can access
502
a control dir over a particular transport. (Jelmer Vernooij)
504
* ``BranchBuilder.build_commit`` now take ``parent_ids`` and
505
``allow_leftmost_as_ghost`` arguments. (Jelmer Vernooij)
510
* Ensure TestCase instances are deallocated immediately after running where
511
possible. This greatly reduces the peak resource needs of a full test suite
512
run. The new ``-Euncollected_cases`` selftest flag will add failures if any
513
case which persists pasts its expected lifetime. (Martin Packman, #613247)
515
* Report exceptions from child processes during fork instead of swallowing the
516
error and reporting that everything went okay. (Martin Packman, #804130)
522
This is the second beta of the 2.5 series, leading to a 2.5.0 release in
523
February 2012. Beta releases are suitable for everyday use but may cause some
524
incompatibilities with plugins.
526
This release includes more filtering options for ``bzr log``, idle
527
connections handling for ``bzr serve``, a ``development-colo`` experimental
528
format to flesh out the colocated branches UI, better support for foreign
529
formats, enhancements to the config framework and more.
531
This release includes all bug fixed in previous series known at the time of
536
External Compatibility Breaks
537
*****************************
544
* A new ``-O`` standard option (common to all commands) have been added. It
545
provides a value for a config option in the ``-Oname=value`` form that
546
takes precedence over all definitions found in config files. It can be
547
used multiple times to override different options.
548
(Vincent Ladeuil, #491196)
550
* ``bzr log`` now has an option called ``--omit-merges`` to omit
551
those commits that merged branches, i.e. those having more than one
553
In order to avoid confusion, the previous command line option
554
``--include-merges`` has been renamed to ``--include-merged``.
555
The old name of the command line option will still be accepted.
556
The name change also affects ``bzr missing``.
559
* ``bzr serve`` will now disconnect clients if they have not issued an RPC
560
request after 5minutes. On POSIX platforms, this will also happen for
561
``bzr serve --inet``. This can be overridden with the configuration
562
variable ``serve.client_timeout`` or in the command line parameter
563
``bzr serve --client-timeout=X``. Further, it is possible to request
564
``bzr serve [--inet]`` to shutdown gracefully by sending SIGHUP. It will
565
finish the current request, and then close the connection.
566
(John Arbash Meinel, #824797, #795025)
568
* The new experimental format ``development-colo`` supports colocated
569
branches. This format will eventually be merged back into the ``2a``
570
format when it has stabilized and there is adequate UI support for
572
(Jelmer Vernooij, #831481)
577
* Fixed a bug where ``bzr tags -r x..y`` loaded the branch history once for
578
every revision in the range; it's now much faster. (Vincent Ladeuil, #857335)
580
* ``bzr info -v`` can now be run against branches that don't support
581
``last_revision_info``, in which case the branch information will simply
582
not be displayed. (Jelmer Vernooij)
587
* ``bzr shelve`` can now be used in emacs shells as the input handling is
588
turned into a line-based one when ``INSIDE_EMACS`` is set (which is the
589
case for all recent emacs versions). (Vincent Ladeuil, #856261)
591
* ``bzr tags`` can now be used against remote repositories that do
592
not provide access to the revision graph. (Jelmer Vernooij, #858942)
594
* ``bzr update PATH`` will stop if you seem to be asking it to update
595
anything less than a whole tree, because that's not supported by ``bzr``'s
596
concept that the whole tree has a single basis revision. Previously, it
597
would go ahead and update the whole tree, which was surprising.
598
(Martin Pool, #557886)
600
* Don't crash if ``bzrlib.initialize()`` has not been called while accessing
601
configs. (Vincent Ladeuil, #863401)
603
* Redirects between http and https no longer discard path information
604
in some cases. (Jelmer Vernooij, #853765)
606
* The ``--overwrite`` argument to ``bzr push`` and ``bzr pull`` no longer
607
reports all tags as changed. (Jelmer Vernooij, #845396)
609
* ``WorkingTree.get_file_mtime`` now raises NoSuchId if a file id is
610
specified that is unknown. (Jelmer Vernooij, #847435)
616
* ``Branch.get_revision_delta`` has been deprecated. Use
617
``Repository.get_revision_delta`` instead. (Jelmer Vernooij, #859712)
619
* Plugins that implement custom protocols for ``bzr serve`` should now
620
also take an argument ``timeout``. This is used by the the bzr protocol
621
to close a connection if a client has been idle for more than X seconds.
622
(Default 5minutes). (John Arbash Meinel)
624
* ``Repository.fileids_altered_by_revision_ids`` has been moved to
625
``VersionedFileRepository`` and is no longer part of the standard
626
``Repository`` interface. (Jelmer Vernooij)
628
* The argument ``include_merges`` to ``missing.find_unmerged`` has
629
been renamed to ``include_merged``. The old name is still supported
630
for now but will cause a deprecation warning. (Martin von Gagern)
632
* The new method ``ControlDirFormat.is_initializable()`` returns a boolean
633
indicating whether or not it is possible to use any of the
634
initialization methods of that format to create a new control dir.
640
* ``Branch`` objects can now use a config stack with the newly introduced
641
``get_config_stack()``. Both ``get_config`` and ``get_config_stack`` can
642
be used for the same branch but it's recommended to stick to one for a
648
* Test scripts can now use ``bzr shelve`` and provide their input as
649
complete lines. (Vincent Ladeuil, #856261)
651
* Really corrupt the pack file without depending on a special length or value.
652
(Vincent Ladeuil, #807032)
660
This is the first beta of the 2.5 series, leading up to a 2.5.0
661
release in February 2012.
663
This release includes better support for gpg signing, better support for
664
i18n (mostly command help and error messages), more options to filter ``bzr
665
log`` output, more support for colocated branches ("location,branch=XXX"
666
syntax), better feedback on updated tags for various commands, faster
667
branching into an empty repository, enhancements to the config framework and
670
Beta releases are suitable for everyday use but may cause some
671
incompatibilities with plugins. Some plugins may need small updates to work
674
External Compatibility Breaks
675
*****************************
682
* A ``from_unicode`` parameter can be specified when registering a config
683
option. This implements boolean, integer and list config options when the
684
provided ``bool_from_store``, ``int_from_store`` and ``list_from_store``
685
are used for this parameter. (Vincent Ladeuil)
687
* Accessing a packaging branch on Launchpad (eg, ``lp:ubuntu/bzr``) now
688
checks to see if the most recent published source package version for
689
that project is present in the branch tags. This should help developers
690
trust whether the packaging branch is up-to-date and can be used for new
691
changes. The level of verbosity is controlled by the config item
692
``launchpad.packaging_verbosity``. It can be set to one of
699
only display if the branch is out-of-date
702
also display single-line up-to-date and missing,
706
(default) display multi-line content for all states
709
(John Arbash Meinel, #609187, #812928)
711
* Add a config option gpg_signing_key for setting which GPG key should
712
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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