[ANN] bzr 2.5b2 released

[Ben Finney]

Vincent Ladeuil <vila+bzr at canonical.com> writes:

> To wet your appetite

Thanks, you have whet our appetites (sharpened them).

Hopefully they didn't need to be wet (moistened) for that.

> New Features
> ************
>
> * A new ``-O`` standard option (common to all commands) have been added. It
>   provides a value for a config option in the ``-Oname=value`` form that
>   takes precedence over all definitions found in config files. It can be
>   used multiple times to override different options.

This looks great. Perhaps I don't yet know how, or perhaps it's not
possible, to have configuration among different files so I can have some
config options shared between machines and others customised per machine.

> * ``bzr log`` now has an option called ``--omit-merges`` to omit
>   those commits that merged branches, i.e. those having more than one
>   parent.

Hmm. This looks dangerous; a merge, like any other commit, can have
changes of its own that don't exist in any other revision. Will this
option ignore *only* those merges which have no additional changes?

> * The new experimental format ``development-colo`` supports colocated
>   branches. This format will eventually be merged back into the ``2a``
>   format when it has stabilized and there is adequate UI support for
>   colocated branches.

I'm glad to see this progress. But will the format still be “2a” after
that change? Wouldn't it be better to have a different name, to
differentiate the formats?

> * ``bzr info -v`` can now be run against branches that don't support
>   ``last_revision_info``, in which case the branch information will simply
>   not be displayed. (Jelmer Vernooij)

:-( Can't the rest of the branch information be shown anyway in those
cases?


The progress looks good.

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Ben Finney