Bazaar is a tool to manage versions of collaborative projects in a distributed way. It is what is called a version control system, which is used to manage all changes that are made to the elements of a project that is being developed by a work team. This software will help you by presenting a history of every change made in each element of the project, together with the author of each change. Every one of these variations is called a “revision”. You will have the possibility of adding, eliminating, moving or editing any element you want. Besides the main development branch, the software enables you to manage some parallel development branches.
Whenever more than one user changes anything in a project referring to the same element, Bazaar has a function to manage the conflicts that may appear because of those simultaneous changes. It is also possible to see the differences between the various revisions thanks to its state reports. At first, this kind of software tools was mainly used by the IT industry, but now individual developers also say that it gives a more dynamic range to their developments.
v2.6 [Nov 28, 2012]
Release notes
This release marks the start of a new long-term-stable series. From here, we
will only make bugfix releases on the 2.6 series (2.6.1, etc), while 2.7
will become our new development series.
This is a bugfix and polish release over the 2.5 series, with a large number
of bugs fixed (~50 for the 2.6 series alone).
All known fixed bugs are included here.
Users are encouraged to upgrade from the other stable series.
Changelog
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External Compatibility Breaks
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* ``bzr lp-propose --approve`` now also adds an "Approve" vote to the merge
proposal. (Jonathan Lange)
New Features
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* ``bzr switch --store`` now stores uncommitted changes in the branch, and
restores them when switching back to the branch. (Aaron Bentley)
* New option '--context' for 'bzr diff' command, to configure the amount of
context (i.e. showing lines that have not changed). Also available as the
named parameter 'context_lines' to bzrlib.diff.internal_diff(). (Paul Nixon)
* The 'grep' plugin is now shipped with bzr. (Jelmer Vernooij)
* The 'ping' plugin is now shipped with bzr. (Jelmer Vernooij)
Improvements
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* ``bzr help env-variables`` now points users at ``bzr help configuration``
which has much more detailed information on the same stuff.
(Robert Collins)
* ``bzr lp-find-proposal`` now only cares about the revision-id that is
specified, not the branch you use. This was enabled by a new API call in
Launchpad's web service. (Aaron Bentley)
* Implement authentication.conf password obfuscation, the password_encoding
option can now be set to base64. (Florian Dorn)
* Local configurations files (i.e. accessed on the local file system like
``bazaar.conf`` and ``locations.conf``) are now shared, reducing the
number of IOs when querying a configuation option. (Vincent Ladeuil,
#832042)
* ``bzr lp-propose --approve`` now correctly specifies the approved revision
and provides an "Approve" vote from the proposer, allowing for smoother
interaction with downstream merge tools. (Jonathan Lange)
Bug Fixes
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* Add a ``progress_bar`` configuration option defaulting to
``BZR_PROGRESS_BAR``. This can be set in ``bazaar.conf`` or specified from
the command line with ``-Oprogress_bar=text``. (Vincent Ladeuil, #388275)
* ``Authentication.Config`` now always returns unicode user names and passwords.
(Vincent Ladeuil, #514301)
* Fixed a bug where the entire contents of ``/etc/mailname`` is read in.
We only want to read in the first line so that comments could be added
and would be ignored.
(Haw Loeung, #932515)
* Fixed a syntax error in ``doc/ja/user-guide/http_smart_server.txt`` that
causes breakage with docutils 0.9.1.
(Vincent Ladeuil, Jelmer Vernooij, #1066307)
* Support utf8 characters in platform names even without looking inside the
box (Fedora's Schrödinger's Cat).
(Toshio Kuratomi, Vincent Ladeuil, #1195783)
* Warn when ``--show-base`` is used for ``pull`` in a treeless branch
instead of failing. It's useless but harmless. (Vincent Ladeuil, #1022160)
* When a missing referenced chk root error is encountered, bzr now suggests
running ``bzr reconcile --canonicalize-chks``. (Jelmer Vernooij)
* When pushing a specific revision, create the new working tree at
that revision. (#484516, Neil Martinsen-Burrell)
Documentation
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* Clarify ``bzr config`` usages especially around other option references
expansion. (Vincent Ladeuil, #996401)
API Changes
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* None.
Internals
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* Add __iter__ to http ResponseFile. (Jelmer Vernooij, #1184021)
* The launchpad plugin now requires API 1.6.0 or later. This version shipped
with Ubuntu 9.10. (Aaron Bentley)
* Better align with upstream gzip.py in tuned_gzip.py. We may lose a bit of
performance but that's for knit and weave formats and already partly
deprecated, better keep compatibility than failing fast ;)
(Vincent Ladeuil, #1116079)
Testing
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* Fix test failures occurring only with LC_ALL=C, when prompting a user,
``stderr`` encoding should be preferred over terminal encoding if
available. (Vincent Ladeuil, #1086209)
