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bzr-fastimport Release Notes
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* Replace Repo.get_ancestry(as per #1040560), which is removed in bzr 2.6.
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* Print sane error when a fastimport file is incomplete.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #937972)
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* New option --no-tags for 'bzr fast-export'. (Alex Usov)
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* bzr-fastimport no longer ships exporters for various other version
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control systems. The versions of these exporters shipped with bzr-fastimport
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have been outdated for some time. Better and more recent exporters
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* Avoid using Tree.inventory directly, which is deprecated in bzr 2.6.
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* Reimport some modules removed from python-fastimport 0.9.2.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #693507)
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* Document the SOURCE argument for ``bzr fast-export``. (Jelmer Vernooij, #672926)
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* Cope with non-utf8 characters in paths when importing.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #838980)
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* New option --rewrite-tag-names for 'bzr fast-export'. (Alex Usov, #872601)
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* New option --dont-squash-empty-commits for 'bzr fast-import-filter'.
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* Add --baseline option to ``bzr export``. (Andy Grimm, #893382)
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* Fix internal error in 'bzr fast-import-info'. (Jelmer Vernooij, #730833)
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* Setup.py no longer relies on bzrlib. (Jelmer Vernooij, #735201)
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* Avoid Inventory.copy, which has disappeared in newer versions of Bazaar.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #485788)
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* Allow "bzr fast-import-filter" to be used without first argument.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #792935)
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* Remove --branches-path and --tags-path options from ``bzr fast-export-from-svn``.
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These options are not supported by the underlying svn-fast-export.py yet.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #513747)
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* In "plain" mode, skip tags that contain characters not valid in Git.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #386986)
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* Support exporting files that are changed into directories.
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(Henrik Nyberg, #631979)
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* bzr-fastimport's file parsing and generation functionality has been exported into
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separate upstream project called python-fastimport, that it now depends on.
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python-fastimport can be retrieved from http://launchpad.net/python-fastimport.
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* Cope with non-ascii characters in tag names. (Jelmer Vernooij, #598060)
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* Cope with non-ascii characters in symbolic links. (Daniel Clemente,
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Jelmer Vernooij, #238365)
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* In plain mode, don't export multiple authors. (David Kilzer, #496677)
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* Fix indentation when starting p4 fails. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* SOURCE argument to bzr fast-import-filter is now optional, consistent with
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examples. (Jelmer Vernooij, #477861)
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* Support new marks file format introduced in (apparently) git 1.6.
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(Ian Clatworthy, Jelmer Vernooij, Gabriel Filion, #347729)
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* Allow entries without email address in user map. (Jelmer Vernooij, #576598)
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* Strip leading slashes when exporting Subversion repositories.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #477869)
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* Cope with non-utf8 characters in commit messages. (Jelmer Vernooij, #444896)
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* Include download_url in setup.py for use on pypi. (Jelmer Vernooij, #456957)
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* Fix incremental imports from incremental import streams.
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(termie, Jelmer Vernooij, #328494)
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* The fast-import command now takes an optional but recommended
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DESTINATION argument. A repository will be created at this
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location and branches will be created within there. If the user
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is running bzr 1.17 up to 2.0, format "2a" is used for these,
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otherwise the default format is used. A format can be explicitly
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given using the new --format option. (Ian Clatworthy)
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* Wrapper commands simplifying the generation of fast-import
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files from other tools are now provided. The general usage is:
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bzr fast-export-from-xxx SOURCE project.fi
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Before starting an export, these commands make an effort to
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check that dependent tools are installed. So far, wrapper
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commands are available for cvs, darcs, git, hg (Mercurial),
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mnt (Monotone), p4 (Perforce) and svn (Subversion).
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(Ian Clatworthy, Matt McClure)
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* darcs-fast-export is now bundled. In fact, the project has
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merged into this one for the purposes of ongoing bug fixing
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and development. (Miklos Vajna)
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* fast-export now supports a --no-plain parameter which causes
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richer metadata to be included in the output using the
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recently agreed 'feature' extension capability. The features
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used are called multiple-authors, commit-properties and
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empty-directories. (Ian Clatworthy)
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* fast-import and fast-import-filter now support user mapping
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via the new --user-map option. The argument is a file specifying
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how user-ids should be mapped to preferred user-ids.
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* svn-fast-export now supports an address option (to control the
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default email domain) and a first-rev option (to select revisions
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since a given one). (Ted Gould)
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* Large repositories now compress better thanks to a change in
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how file-ids are assigned. (Ian Clatworthy, John Arbash Meinel)
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* Memory usage is improved by flushing blobs to a disk cache
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when appropriate. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* If a fast-import source ends in ".gz", it is assumed to be in
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gzip format and the stream is implicitly uncompressed. This
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means fast-import dump files generated by fast-export-from-xxx
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can be stored gzipped to save space. (Ian Clatworthy)
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* The working tree is now implicitly updated for trunk. Other
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branches still need to be explicitly created using 'bzr update'.
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* Directories that become empty following a delete or rename of
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one of their children are now implicitly pruned. If required,
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this will be made optional at a later date.
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(Tom Widmer, Ian Clatworthy)
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* Blob tracking is now more intelligently done by an implicit
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first pass to collect blob usage statistics. This eliminates
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the need for an explicit 2-step process in all cases except
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where stdin is used as the input source. (Ian Clatworthy)
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* Updated the bundled version of hg-fast-export to be the latest
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code (25-May-2009) from http://repo.or.cz/w/fast-export.git.
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* Fixed the format used to create branches in a shared repository.
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It now selects the best branch format based on the repository
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format, rather than assume the default branch format is the right
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one. (Ian Clatworthy)
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* Fixed inventory delta generation when deleting directories.
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(Previously the child paths included were relative to the
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directory when they ought to be relative to the root.)
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* Gracefully handle email addresses with unicode characters.
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* Gracefully handle an empty input stream. (Gonéri Le Bouder)
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* Gracefully handle git submodules by ignoring them.
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* Get git-bzr working again. (Gonéri Le Bouder)
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* Improved documentation has been published in the Bazaar Data Migration
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Guide: http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/migration/en/data-migration/.
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* ``exporters/bzr-fast-export`` has been replaced with a
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``fast-export`` command. Some minor issues have been
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fixed at the same time: the first commit now goes into
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refs/heads/master (not refs/head/tmp); there's no
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checkpoint at the top of the stream; parent commits are
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now always given lower mark numbers than the commits they
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are merged into. (Ian Clatworthy)
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* The ``fast-import`` command now uses a different mapping of
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git reference names to bzr branch names. In summary:
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* ``refs/heads/foo`` is mapped to ``foo``
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* ``refs/remotes/origin/foo`` is mapped to ``foo.remote``
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* ``refs/tags/foo`` is mapped to ``foo.tag``
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* ``*/master`` is mapped to ``trunk``, ``trunk.remote``, etc.
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* ``*/trunk`` is mapped to ``git-trunk``, ``git-trunk.remote``, etc.
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This new mapping has been introduced so that more natural
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branch names are used and to enable round-tripping back to git.
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* The old ``fast-import-filter`` command is now called
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``fast-import-query``. ``fast-import-filter`` now
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really filters the input to produce a fast-import stream
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based on filtering criteria. See below.
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* The ``--inv-fulltext`` option is no longer supported. It was
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only used in experimental mode for old versions of bzrlib so
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it added more complexity than value. (Ian Clatworthy)
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* Added ``fast-import-filter`` command for splitting out a
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subdirectory or bunch of files into their own project. It can
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also be used to create a new repository without any history
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for nominated files and directories. This is useful for
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removing information which is a security risk, huge binary
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files like ISO images, etc.
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* Copying of files and symbolic links is now supported.
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* Initial cut at reset support. (Brian de Alwis, Ian Clatworthy)
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* If ``refs/heads/xxx`` and ``refs/remotes/origin/xxx`` are both
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defined, the latter is now mapped to a bzr branch called
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``xxx.remote`` rather than ``remotes--origins--xxx``.
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* ``bzr fast-import-info`` now handles an unlimited # of parents for a
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revision. The spec suggests the maximum ought to be 16 but the linux
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kernel has revisions with more than that.
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* ``bzr fast-import-info`` now reports on things that may need caching,
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i.e. merges, rename old paths and copy source paths.
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* Tag commands with a missing from clause now produce a warning but
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are otherwise ignored. (Scott James Remnant, Ian Clatworthy)
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* The fastimport-id-map file can now have more revisions than the
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repository. (Scott James Remnant)
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* Updated the bundled version of hg-fast-export to be the latest
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code from http://repo.or.cz/w/fast-export.git. It should now
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support recent Mercurial releases.
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(Ian Clatworthy, #318903)
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* Fixed a *bad* bug where filecopy commands were being parsed
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as filerename commands. Repositories generated by previous
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version of bzr-fast-import where the input stream contained
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filecopy commands might be missing data (the copy source will
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no longer be there if it was unchanged since the copy happened)
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and ought to be regenerated.
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* Fixed how the per-file graph is generated. The per-file graph
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may still be less than perfect in the case where a file is only
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changed in a merge and not the parent, but in the vast majority
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of cases now, ``bzr check`` should no longer report inconsistent
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parents. (Ian Clatworthy)
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* Fix ``os`` import as needed on Windows.
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(Ian Clatworthy, esskov, #264988)
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* Handle a directory turning into a file and then the children
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of that directory being deleted.
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(Ian Clatworthy, #309486)
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* Handle an empty email section.
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* Handle multiple merges within the one merge clause. That's illegal
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according to the spec but git-fast-export does it.
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(Ian Clatworthy, #259711)
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* Handle names and paths that aren't utf8 encoded. The spec recommends
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utf8 encoding of these but git-fast-export doesn't always do that.
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(Ian Clatworthy, #289088)
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* Ignore lightweight tags with no from clause rather than abort.
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(It seems git-fast-export outputs these commands frequently now
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while it didn't appear to in early versions.)
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(Ian Clatworthy, edice, #259711)
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* Import into rich-root (and subtree) repositories without aborting.
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(Ian Clatworthy, #300921)
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* Recursively delete children when a directory is deleted.
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(Scott James Remnant)
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* The ``deleteall`` command now only tries to delete files in the
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nominated branch, not all known files. As a consequence,
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it should now be possible (if it wasn't before) to import
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multiple Darcs branches (via darcs-fast-export) at once.
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* A large number of tests have been added.
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* Refactored ``processors/generic_processor.py`` into a bunch of modules.
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* bzr-fast-export.py renamed to bzr-fast-export.
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* Add support for the deleteall command.
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(Miklos Vajna, #284941)
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* bzr-fast-export now exports rm+mv correctly.
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* Fix recursive rename handling in bzr-fast-export.
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(Pieter de Bie, #287785)
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* hg-fast-export should use binary mode on Windows.
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* setup.py no longer assumes python2.4.
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* setup.py support fixed.
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* Update the last-modified revision for a renamed file.
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* Added NEWS containing Release Notes. (Ian Clatworthy)
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* ``bzr help fastimport`` now provides help that is useful.
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* Numerous fixes to ``bzr-fast-export.py`` to improve round-tripping
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with Git. Added ``--import-marks`` and ``--export-marks`` options
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to ``fast-import`` as well.
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* ``svn-fast-export.py`` now supports a regular-expression to specify
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the branches to export.
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* Support the new Repository API added in bzr.dev r3510. The old API
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will be used for earlier versions of bzr including bzr 1.6beta2 and
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earlier. (Ian Clatworthy)
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* The ``--inv-fulltext`` option is not yet supported when the new
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Repository API is used to import revisions. The option can be
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provided but it will be ignored. (Ian Clatworthy)
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* The ``RevisionLoader`` class has been renamed to ``RevisionLoader1``.
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The ``ExperimentalRevisionLoader`` class has been renamed to
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``ImportRevisionLoader1``. New classes called ``RevisionLoader2``
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and ``ImportRevisionLoader2`` are provided that use the new
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Repository API. (Ian Clatworthy)
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* Improved packaging by adding a setup.py file. (Ian Clatworthy)
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* Version suitable for Bazaar 1.5.