Bazaar Release Notes

bzr 1.13

Codename:paraskavedekatriaphobia 1.13:2009-03-14 1.13rc1:2009-03-10 1.13.1:2009-03-23 1.13.2:2009-04-27

GNU Changelog output can now be produced by bzr log --gnu-changelog. Debug flags can now be set in ~/.bazaar/bazaar.conf. Lightweight checkouts and stacked branches should both be much faster over remote connections.

Changes From 1.13.1 to 1.13.2

A regression was found in the 1.13.1 release. When bzr 1.13.1 and earlier push a stacked branch they do not take care to push all the parent inventories for the transferred revisions. This means that a smart server serving that branch often cannot calculate inventory deltas for the branch (because smart server does not/cannot open fallback repositories). Prior to 1.13 the server did not have a verb to stream revisions out of a repository, so that’s why this bug has appeared now.

Bug Fixes

• Fix for bug 354036 ErrorFromSmartServer - AbsentContentFactory object has no attribute ‘get_bytes_as’ exception while pulling from Launchpad (Jean-Francois Roy, Andrew Bennetts, Robert Collins)

Changes From 1.13final to 1.13.1

A couple regessions where found in the 1.13 release. The pyrex-generated C extensions are missing from the .tar.gz and .zip files. Documentation on how to generate GNU ChangeLogs is wrong.

Bug Fixes

• Change ./bzr‘s _script_version to match ./bzrlib/__init__.py version_info. (Bob Tanner, Martin Pool, #345232)
• Distribution archives for 1.13 do not contain generated C extension modules (Jean-Francois Roy, Bob Tanner, #344465)
• GNU ChangeLog output can now be produced by bzr log –format gnu-changelog is incorrect (Deejay, Bob Tanner, Martin Pool, Robert Collins, #343928)
• merge --force works again. (Robert Collins, #342105)

Changes From 1.13rc1 to 1.13final

• Fix “is not a stackable format” error when pushing a stackable-format branch with an unstackable-format repository to a destination with a default stacking policy. (Andrew Bennetts)
• Progress bars now show the rate of network activity for bzr+ssh:// and bzr:// connections. (Andrew Bennetts)

Compatibility Breaks

• bzr log --line now indicates which revisions are merges with [merge] after the date. Scripts which parse the output of this command may need to be adjusted. (Neil Martinsen-Burrell)

New Features

• bzr reconfigure now supports –with-trees and –with-no-trees options to change the default tree-creation policy of shared repositories. (Matthew Fuller, Marius Kruger, #145033)
• Debug flags can now be set in ~/.bazaar/bazaar.conf. (Martin Pool)
• Filtered views provide a mask over the tree so that users can focus on a subset of a tree when doing their work. See Filtered views in chapter 7 of the User Guide and bzr help view for details. (Ian Clatworthy)
• GNU Changelog output can now be produced by bzr log --gnu-changelog. (Andrea Bolognani, Martin Pool)
• The -Dmemory flag now gives memory information on Windows. (John Arbash Meinel)
• Multiple authors for a commit can now be recorded by using the “–author” option multiple times. (James Westby, #185772)
• New clean-tree command, from bzrtools. (Aaron Bentley, Jelmer Vernooij)
• New command bzr launchpad-open opens a Launchpad web page for that branch in your web browser, as long as the branch is on Launchpad at all. (Jonathan Lange)
• New API for getting bugs fixed by a revision: Revision.iter_bugs(). (Jonathan Lange)

Improvements

• All bzr Hooks classes are now registered in bzrlib.hooks.known_hooks. This removes the separate list from bzrlib.tests and ensures that all hooks registered there are correctly isolated by the test suite (previously MutableTreeHooks were not being isolated correctly). Further, documentation for hooks is now dynamically generated from the present HookPoints. bzr hooks will now also report on all the hooks present in the bzrlib.hooks.known_hooks registry. (Robert Collins)
• bzr add no longer prints add completed on success. Failure still prints an error message. (Robert Collins)
• bzr branch now has a --no-tree option which turns off the generation of a working tree in the new branch. (Daniel Watkins, John Klinger, #273993)
• Bazaar will now point out bzr+ssh:// to the user when they use ssh://. (Jelmer Vernooij, #330535)
• bzr -v info now omits the number of committers branch statistic, making it many times faster for large projects. To include that statistic in the output, use bzr -vv info. (Ian Clatworthy)
• bzr push to a bzr url (bzr://, bzr+ssh:// etc) will stream if the server is version 1.13 or greater, reducing roundtrips significantly. (Andrew Bennetts, Robert Collins)
• Lightweight Checkouts and Stacked Branches should both be much faster over remote connections. Building the working tree now batches up requests into approx 5MB requests, rather than a separate request for each file. (John Arbash Meinel)
• Support for GSSAPI authentication when using HTTP or HTTPS. (Jelmer Vernooij)
• The bzr shelve prompt now includes a ‘?’ help option to explain the short options better. (Daniel Watkins, #327429)
• bzr lp-open now falls back to the push location if it cannot find a public location. (Jonathan Lange, #332372)
• bzr lp-open will try to find the Launchpad URL for the location passed on the command line. This makes bzr lp-open lp:foo work as expected. (Jonathan Lange, #332705)
• bzr send now supports MH-E via emacsclient. (Eric Gillespie)

Bug Fixes

• Allows bzr log <FILE> to be called in an empty branch without backtracing. (Vincent Ladeuil, #346431)
• Bazaar now gives a better message including the filename if it’s unable to read a file in the working directory, for example because of a permission error. (Martin Pool, #338653)
• bzr cat -r<old> <path> doesn’t traceback anymore when <path> has a file id in the working tree different from the one in revision <old>. (Vincent Ladeuil, #341517, #253806)
• bzr send help is more specific about how to apply merge directives. (Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #253470)
• bzr missing now uses Repository.get_revision_delta() rather than fetching trees and determining a delta itself. (Jelmer Vernooij, #315048)
• bzr push to a smart server no longer causes “Revision {set([(‘null:’,)])} not present ...” errors when the branch has multiple root revisions. (Andrew Bennetts, #317654)
• bzr shelve now properly handle patches with no terminating newline. (Benoît PIERRE, #303569)
• bzr unshelve gives a more palatable error if passed a non-integer shelf id. (Daniel Watkins)
• Export now handles files that are not present in the tree. (James Westby, #174539)
• Fixed incorrect “Source format does not support stacking” warning when pushing to a smart server. (Andrew Bennetts, #334114)
• Fixed “sprout() got an unexpected keyword argument ‘source_branch’” error branching from old repositories. (Martin Pool, #321695)
• Make bzr push --quiet <non-local location> less chatty. (Kent Gibson, #221461)
• Many Branch hooks would not fire with bzr:// and bzr+ssh:// branches, and this was not noticed due to a bug in the test logic for branches. This is now fixed and a test added to prevent it reoccuring. (Robert Collins, Andrew Bennetts)
• Restore the progress bar on Windows. We were disabling it when TERM wasn’t set, but Windows doesn’t set TERM. (Alexander Belchenko, #334808)
• setup.py build_ext now gives a proper error when an extension fails to build. (John Arbash Meinel)
• Symlinks to non ascii file names are now supported. (Robert Collins, Vincent Ladeuil, #339055, #272444)
• Under rare circumstances (aka nobody reported a bug about it), the FTP transport could revert to ascii mode. It now stays in binary mode except when needed. (Vincent Ladeuil)
• Unshelve does not generate warnings about progress bars. (Aaron Bentley, #328148)
• shelve cleans up properly when unversioned files are specified. (Benoît Pierre, Aaron Bentley)

Documentation

• Added Organizing your workspace to the User Guide appendices, summarizing some common ways of organizing trees, branches and repositories and the processes/workflows implied/enabled by each. (Ian Clatworthy)
• Hooks can now be self documenting. bzrlib.hooks.Hooks.create_hook is the entry point for this feature. (Robert Collins)
• The documentation for shelve and unshelve has been clarified. (Daniel Watkins, #327421, #327425)

API Changes

• bzr selftest now fails if the bazaar sources contain trailing whitespace, non-unix style line endings and files not ending in a newline. About 372 files and 3243 lines with trailing whitespace was updated to comply with this. The code already complied with the other criteria, but now it is enforced. (Marius Kruger)
• bzrlib.branch.PushResult was renamed to bzrlib.branch.BranchPushResult. (Jelmer Vernooij)
• Branch.fetch and Repository.fetch now return None rather than a count of copied revisions and failed revisions. A while back we stopped ever reporting failed revisions because we started erroring instead, and the copied revisions count is not used in the UI at all - indeed it only reflects the repository status not changes to the branch itself. (Robert Collins)
• Inventory.apply_delta now raises an AssertionError if a file-id appears multiple times within the delta. (Ian Clatworthy)
• MutableTree.commit now favours the “authors” argument, with the old “author” argument being deprecated.
• Remove deprecated EmptyTree. (Martin Pool)
• Repository.fetch now accepts an optional fetch_spec parameter. A SearchResult or MiniSearchResult may be passed to fetch_spec instead of a last_revision to specify exactly which revisions to fetch. (Andrew Bennetts)
• RepositoryAcquisitionPolicy.acquire_repository now returns a tuple of (repository, is_new_flag), rather than just the repository. (Andrew Bennetts)
• Revision.get_apparent_author() is now deprecated, replaced by Revision.get_apparent_authors(), which returns a list. The former now returns the first item that would be returned from the second.
• The BranchBuilder test helper now accepts a timestamp parameter to build_commit and build_snapshot. (Martin Pool)
• The _fetch_* attributes on Repository are now on RepositoryFormat, more accurately reflecting their intent (they describe a disk format capability, not state of a particular repository of that format). (Robert Collins)

Internals

• Branching from a non-stacked branch on a smart protocol is now free of virtual file system methods. (Robert Collins, Andrew Bennetts)
• Branch and Repository creation on a bzr+ssh://server are now done via RPC calls rather than VFS calls, reducing round trips for pushing new branches substantially. (Robert Collins)
• Branch.clone now takes the repository_policy formerly used inside BzrDir.clone_on_transport, allowing stacking to be configured before the branch tags and revision tip are set. This fixes a race condition cloning stacked branches that would cause plugins to have hooks called on non-stacked instances. (Robert Collins, #334187)
• BzrDir.cloning_metadir now has a RPC call. (Robert Collins)
• BzrDirFormat.__str__ now uses the human readable description rather than the sometimes-absent disk label. (Robert Collins)
• bzrlib.fetch is now composed of a sender and a sink component allowing for decoupling over a network connection. Fetching from or into a RemoteRepository with a 1.13 server will use this to stream the operation. (Andrew Bennetts, Robert Collins)
• bzrlib.tests.run_suite accepts a runner_class parameter supporting the use of different runners. (Robert Collins)
• Change how file_ids and revision_ids are interned as part of inventory deserialization. Now we use the real intern(), rather than our own workaround that would also cache a Unicode copy of the string, and never emptied the cache. This should slightly reduce memory consumption. (John Arbash Meinel)
• New branch method create_clone_on_transport that returns a branch object. (Robert Collins)
• New hook Commands[‘extend_command’] to allow plugins to access a command object before the command is run (or help generated from it), without overriding the command. (Robert Collins)
• New version of the BzrDir.find_repository verb supporting _network_name to support removing more _ensure_real calls. (Robert Collins)
• RemoteBranchFormat no longer claims to have a disk format string. (Robert Collins)
• Repository objects now have suspend_write_group and resume_write_group methods. These are currently only useful with pack repositories. (Andrew Bennetts, Robert Collins)
• BzrDirFormat, BranchFormat and RepositoryFormat objects now have a network_name for passing the format across RPC calls. (Robert Collins, Andrew Bennetts)
• RepositoryFormat objects now all have a new attribute _serializer used by fetch when reserialising is required. (Robert Collins, Andrew Bennetts)
• Some methods have been pulled up from BzrBranch to Branch to aid branch types that are not bzr branch objects (like RemoteBranch). (Robert Collins, Andrew Bennetts)
• Test adaptation has been made consistent throughout the built in tests. TestScenarioApplier, multiply_tests_from_modules, adapt_tests, adapt_modules have all been deleted. Please use multiply_tests, or for lower level needs apply_scenarios and apply_scenario. (Robert Collins)
• TestSkipped is now detected by TestCase and passed to the TestResult by calling addSkip. For older TestResult objects, where addSkip is not available, addError is still called. This permits test filtering in subunit to strip out skipped tests resulting in a faster fix-shrink-list-run cycle. This is compatible with the testtools protocol for skips. (Robert Collins)
• The _index of KnitVersionedFiles now supports the ability to scan an underlying index that is going to be incorporated into the KnitVersionedFiles object, to determine if it has missing delta references. The method is scan_unvalidated_index. (Andrew Bennetts, Robert Collins)
• There is a RemoteSink object which handles pushing to smart servers. (Andrew Bennetts, Robert Collins)
• TransportTraceDecorator now logs put_bytes_non_atomic and rmdir calls. (Robert Collins)
• VersionedFiles record adapters have had their signature change from (record, record.get_bytes_as(record.storage_kind)) to (record) reducing excess duplication and allowing adapters to access private data in record to obtain content more efficiently. (Robert Collins)
• We no longer probe to see if we should create a working tree during clone if we cannot get a local_abspath for the new bzrdir. (Robert Collins)