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diff --git a/doc/en/release-notes/bzr-0.91.txt b/doc/en/release-notes/bzr-0.91.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..11892a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/en/release-notes/bzr-0.91.txt @@ -0,0 +1,372 @@ +#################### +Bazaar Release Notes +#################### + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + +bzr 0.91 +######## + +:Released: 2007-09-26 + +Bug Fixes +********* + +* Print a warning instead of aborting the ``python setup.py install`` + process if building of a C extension is not possible. + (Lukáš Lalinský, Alexander Belchenko) + +* Fix commit ordering in corner case (Aaron Bentley, #94975) + +* Fix ''bzr info bzr://host/'' and other operations on ''bzr://' URLs with + an implicit port. We were incorrectly raising PathNotChild due to + inconsistent treatment of the ''_port'' attribute on the Transport object. + (Andrew Bennetts, #133965) + +* Make RemoteRepository.sprout cope gracefully with servers that don't + support the ``Repository.tarball`` request. + (Andrew Bennetts) + + +bzr 0.91rc2 +########### + +:Released: 2007-09-11 + +* Replaced incorrect tarball for previous release; a debug statement was left + in bzrlib/remote.py. + + +bzr 0.91rc1 +########### + +:Released: 2007-09-11 + +Changes +******* + +* The default branch and repository format has changed to + ``dirstate-tags``, so tag commands are active by default. + This format is compatible with Bazaar 0.15 and later. + This incidentally fixes bug #126141. + (Martin Pool) + +* ``--quiet`` or ``-q`` is no longer a global option. If present, it + must now appear after the command name. Scripts doing things like + ``bzr -q missing`` need to be rewritten as ``bzr missing -q``. + (Ian Clatworthy) + +Features +******** + +* New option ``--author`` in ``bzr commit`` to specify the author of the + change, if it's different from the committer. ``bzr log`` and + ``bzr annotate`` display the author instead of the committer. + (Lukáš Lalinský) + +* In addition to global options and command specific options, a set of + standard options are now supported. Standard options are legal for + all commands. The initial set of standard options are: + + * ``--help`` or ``-h`` - display help message + * ``--verbose`` or ``-v`` - display additional information + * ``--quiet`` or ``-q`` - only output warnings and errors. + + Unlike global options, standard options can be used in aliases and + may have command-specific help. (Ian Clatworthy) + +* Verbosity level processing has now been unified. If ``--verbose`` + or ``-v`` is specified on the command line multiple times, the + verbosity level is made positive the first time then increased. + If ``--quiet`` or ``-q`` is specified on the command line + multiple times, the verbosity level is made negative the first + time then decreased. To get the default verbosity level of zero, + either specify none of the above , ``--no-verbose`` or ``--no-quiet``. + Note that most commands currently ignore the magnitude of the + verbosity level but do respect *quiet vs normal vs verbose* when + generating output. (Ian Clatworthy) + +* ``Branch.hooks`` now supports ``pre_commit`` hook. The hook's signature + is documented in BranchHooks constructor. (Nam T. Nguyen, #102747) + +* New ``Repository.stream_knit_data_for_revisions`` request added to the + network protocol for greatly reduced roundtrips when retrieving a set of + revisions. (Andrew Bennetts) + +Bug Fixes +********* + +* ``bzr plugins`` now lists the version number for each plugin in square + brackets after the path. (Robert Collins, #125421) + +* Pushing, pulling and branching branches with subtree references was not + copying the subtree weave, preventing the file graph from being accessed + and causing errors in commits in clones. (Robert Collins) + +* Suppress warning "integer argument expected, got float" from Paramiko, + which sometimes caused false test failures. (Martin Pool) + +* Fix bug in bundle 4 that could cause attempts to write data to wrong + versionedfile. (Aaron Bentley) + +* Diffs generated using "diff -p" no longer break the patch parser. + (Aaron Bentley) + +* get_transport treats an empty possible_transports list the same as a non- + empty one. (Aaron Bentley) + +* patch verification for merge directives is reactivated, and works with + CRLF and CR files. (Aaron Bentley) + +* Accept ..\ as a path in revision specifiers. This fixes for example + "-r branch:..\other-branch" on Windows. (Lukáš Lalinský) + +* ``BZR_PLUGIN_PATH`` may now contain trailing slashes. + (Blake Winton, #129299) + +* man page no longer lists hidden options (#131667, Aaron Bentley) + +* ``uncommit --help`` now explains the -r option adequately. (Daniel + Watkins, #106726) + +* Error messages are now better formatted with parameters (such as + filenames) quoted when necessary. This avoids confusion when directory + names ending in a '.' at the end of messages were confused with a + full stop that may or not have been there. (Daniel Watkins, #129791) + +* Fix ``status FILE -r X..Y``. (Lukáš Lalinský) + +* If a particular command is an alias, ``help`` will show the alias + instead of claiming there is no help for said alias. (Daniel Watkins, + #133548) + +* TreeTransform-based operations, like pull, merge, revert, and branch, + now roll back if they encounter an error. (Aaron Bentley, #67699) + +* ``bzr commit`` now exits cleanly if a character unsupported by the + current encoding is used in the commit message. (Daniel Watkins, + #116143) + +* bzr send uses default values for ranges when only half of an elipsis + is specified ("-r..5" or "-r5.."). (#61685, Aaron Bentley) + +* Avoid trouble when Windows SSH calls itself 'plink' but no plink + binary is present. (Martin Albisetti, #107155) + +* ``bzr remove`` should remove clean subtrees. Now it will remove (without + needing ``--force``) subtrees that contain no files with text changes or + modified files. With ``--force`` it removes the subtree regardless of + text changes or unknown files. Directories with renames in or out (but + not changed otherwise) will now be removed without needing ``--force``. + Unknown ignored files will be deleted without needing ``--force``. + (Marius Kruger, #111665) + +* When two plugins conflict, the source of both the losing and now the + winning definition is shown. (Konstantin Mikhaylov, #5454) + +* When committing to a branch, the location being committed to is + displayed. (Daniel Watkins, #52479) + +* ``bzr --version`` takes care about encoding of stdout, especially + when output is redirected. (Alexander Belchenko, #131100) + +* Prompt for an FTP password if none is provided. + (Vincent Ladeuil, #137044) + +* Reuse bound branch associated transport to avoid multiple + connections. + (Vincent Ladeuil, #128076, #131396) + +* Overwrite conflicting tags by ``push`` and ``pull`` if the + ``--overwrite`` option is specified. (Lukáš Lalinský, #93947) + +* In checkouts, tags are copied into the master branch when created, + changed or deleted, and are copied into the checkout when it is + updated. (Martin Pool, #93856, #93860) + +* Print a warning instead of aborting the ``python setup.py install`` + process if building of a C extension is not possible. + (Lukáš Lalinský, Alexander Belchenko) + +Improvements +************ + +* Add the option "--show-diff" to the commit command in order to display + the diff during the commit log creation. (Goffredo Baroncelli) + +* ``pull`` and ``merge`` are much faster at installing bundle format 4. + (Aaron Bentley) + +* ``pull -v`` no longer includes deltas, making it much faster. + (Aaron Bentley) + +* ``send`` now sends the directive as an attachment by default. + (Aaron Bentley, Lukáš Lalinský, Alexander Belchenko) + +* Documentation updates (Martin Albisetti) + +* Help on debug flags is now included in ``help global-options``. + (Daniel Watkins, #124853) + +* Parameters passed on the command line are checked to ensure they are + supported by the encoding in use. (Daniel Watkins) + +* The compression used within the bzr repository has changed from zlib + level 9 to the zlib default level. This improves commit performance with + only a small increase in space used (and in some cases a reduction in + space). (Robert Collins) + +* Initial commit no longer SHAs files twice and now reuses the path + rather than looking it up again, making it faster. + (Ian Clatworthy) + +* New option ``-c``/``--change`` for ``diff`` and ``status`` to show + changes in one revision. (Lukáš Lalinský) + +* If versioned files match a given ignore pattern, a warning is now + given. (Daniel Watkins, #48623) + +* ``bzr status`` now has -S as a short name for --short and -V as a + short name for --versioned. These have been added to assist users + migrating from Subversion: ``bzr status -SV`` is now like + ``svn status -q``. (Daniel Watkins, #115990) + +* Added C implementation of ``PatienceSequenceMatcher``, which is about + 10x faster than the Python version. This speeds up commands that + need file diffing, such as ``bzr commit`` or ``bzr diff``. + (Lukáš Lalinský) + +* HACKING has been extended with a large section on core developer tasks. + (Ian Clatworthy) + +* Add ``branches`` and ``standalone-trees`` as online help topics and + include them as Concepts within the User Reference. + (Paul Moore, Ian Clatworthy) + +* ``check`` can detect versionedfile parent references that are + inconsistent with revision and inventory info, and ``reconcile`` can fix + them. These faulty references were generated by 0.8-era releases, + so repositories which were manipulated by old bzrs should be + checked, and possibly reconciled ASAP. (Aaron Bentley, Andrew Bennetts) + +API Breaks +********** + +* ``Branch.append_revision`` is removed altogether; please use + ``Branch.set_last_revision_info`` instead. (Martin Pool) + +* CommitBuilder now advertises itself as requiring the root entry to be + supplied. This only affects foreign repository implementations which reuse + CommitBuilder directly and have changed record_entry_contents to require + that the root not be supplied. This should be precisely zero plugins + affected. (Robert Collins) + +* The ``add_lines`` methods on ``VersionedFile`` implementations has changed + its return value to include the sha1 and length of the inserted text. This + allows the avoidance of double-sha1 calculations during commit. + (Robert Collins) + +* ``Transport.should_cache`` has been removed. It was not called in the + previous release. (Martin Pool) + +Testing +******* + +* Tests may now raise TestNotApplicable to indicate they shouldn't be + run in a particular scenario. (Martin Pool) + +* New function multiply_tests_from_modules to give a simpler interface + to test parameterization. (Martin Pool, Robert Collins) + +* ``Transport.should_cache`` has been removed. It was not called in the + previous release. (Martin Pool) + +* NULL_REVISION is returned to indicate the null revision, not None. + (Aaron Bentley) + +* Use UTF-8 encoded StringIO for log tests to avoid failures on + non-ASCII committer names. (Lukáš Lalinský) + +Internals +********* + +* ``bzrlib.plugin.all_plugins`` has been deprecated in favour of + ``bzrlib.plugin.plugins()`` which returns PlugIn objects that provide + useful functionality for determining the path of a plugin, its tests, and + its version information. (Robert Collins) + +* Add the option user_encoding to the function 'show_diff_trees()' + in order to move the user encoding at the UI level. (Goffredo Baroncelli) + +* Add the function make_commit_message_template_encoded() and the function + edit_commit_message_encoded() which handle encoded strings. + This is done in order to mix the commit messages (which is a unicode + string), and the diff which is a raw string. (Goffredo Baroncelli) + +* CommitBuilder now defaults to using add_lines_with_ghosts, reducing + overhead on non-weave repositories which don't require all parents to be + present. (Robert Collins) + +* Deprecated method ``find_previous_heads`` on + ``bzrlib.inventory.InventoryEntry``. This has been superseded by the use + of ``parent_candidates`` and a separate heads check via the repository + API. (Robert Collins) + +* New trace function ``mutter_callsite`` will print out a subset of the + stack to the log, which can be useful for gathering debug details. + (Robert Collins) + +* ``bzrlib.pack.ContainerWriter`` now tracks how many records have been + added via a public attribute records_written. (Robert Collins) + +* New method ``bzrlib.transport.Transport.get_recommended_page_size``. + This provides a hint to users of transports as to the reasonable + minimum data to read. In principle this can take latency and + bandwidth into account on a per-connection basis, but for now it + just has hard coded values based on the URL. (E.g., http:// has a large + page size, file:// has a small one.) (Robert Collins) + +* New method on ``bzrlib.transport.Transport`` ``open_write_stream`` allows + incremental addition of data to a file without requiring that all the + data be buffered in memory. (Robert Collins) + +* New methods on ``bzrlib.knit.KnitVersionedFile``: + ``get_data_stream(versions)``, ``insert_data_stream(stream)`` and + ``get_format_signature()``. These provide some infrastructure for + efficiently streaming the knit data for a set of versions over the smart + protocol. + +* Knits with no annotation cache still produce correct annotations. + (Aaron Bentley) + +* Three new methods have been added to ``bzrlib.trace``: + ``set_verbosity_level``, ``get_verbosity_level`` and ``is_verbose``. + ``set_verbosity_level`` expects a numeric value: negative for quiet, + zero for normal, positive for verbose. The size of the number can be + used to determine just how quiet or verbose the application should be. + The existing ``be_quiet`` and ``is_quiet`` routines have been + integrated into this new scheme. (Ian Clatworthy) + +* Options can now be delcared with a ``custom_callback`` parameter. If + set, this routine is called after the option is processed. This feature + is now used by the standard options ``verbose`` and ``quiet`` so that + setting one implicitly resets the other. (Ian Clatworthy) + +* Rather than declaring a new option from scratch in order to provide + custom help, a centrally registered option can be decorated using the + new ``bzrlib.Option.custom_help`` routine. In particular, this routine + is useful when declaring better help for the ``verbose`` and ``quiet`` + standard options as the base definition of these is now more complex + than before thanks to their use of a custom callback. (Ian Clatworthy) + +* Tree._iter_changes(specific_file=[]) now iterates through no files, + instead of iterating through all files. None is used to iterate through + all files. (Aaron Bentley) + +* WorkingTree.revert() now accepts None to revert all files. The use of + [] to revert all files is deprecated. (Aaron Bentley) + + +.. + vim: tw=74 ft=rst ff=unix |