Log Message:
Version 1.2.0
(21 May 2005, from /branches/1.2.x)
http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/tags/1.2.0

See the 1.2 release notes for a more verbose overview of the changes since
the 1.1 release:  http://subversion.tigris.org/svn_1.2_releasenotes.html

 User-visible-changes:
  - Client:
    * add peg-rev syntax to co/blame/cat/ls/pget/plist/export (issue #1093)
    * 'svn info' now works on URLs (r13123, 13144)
    * 'svn* --version' now shows available repository back-ends (r13761)
    * new fixed-length keywords (for placement in binary files) (issue #2095)
    * on Windows, disk-cached passwords are now encrypted (r13888)
    * performance improvements:
       - 'svn status' does much less disk parsing (r11677, 11704)
       - 'svn st -u' no longer asks server to generate textdeltas (issue #2259)
       - 'svn revert -R' doing much less work (r13883)
       - utf8<->native conversions are faster now (issue #2016)
    * new switches added:
       - 'svn log --limit N'               - show only first N log messages
       - 'svn info --revision'             - show info on older object (r13265)
       - 'svn list --xml'                  - output listing in XML
       - 'svn propset --force'             - allow unusual propsets (#2065)
       - 'svn diff --force'                - show diffs on binary files (#2099)
       - 'svn co/up/st --ignore-externals' - skip over externals (#2189)
       - 'svn export --non-recursive'      - don't export subdirs (issue #2228)
       - 'svnversion --help'               - show help (r13128)
    * fixed: 'svn merge' fails to add symlinks or expand keywords (issue #2064)
    * fixed: 'svn merge --dry-run' shows spurious 'skip' messages (issue #1943)
    * fixed: 'svn merge' file-not-found' error (issue #1673)
    * fixed: 'svn merge' of propchanges into deleted file (issue #2132)
    * fixed: 'svn merge' on implicit target with space (r13010)
    * fixed: 'svn merge/diff URL URL' can cause httpd timeout (issue #2048)
    * fixed: 'svn switch/update' failure might corrupt wc (issue #1825)
    * fixed: 'svn up' should rm before add, helps case-insensitivity (r12616)
    * fixed: 'svn up -rX' causes file to be unrestorable (issue #2250)
    * fixed: 'svn copy wc wc' should keep .svn/ hidden (issue #1739)
    * fixed: 'svn copy wc wc' of deleted=true doesn't delete (issue #2101)
    * fixed: 'svn copy' shouldn't copy into schedule-delete area (issue #2020)
    * fixed: 'svn copy dir dir' infinite recursion (issue #2224)
    * fixed: 'svn log' throws error on unversioned target (issue #1551)
    * fixed: 'svn log' in r0 working copy shows r1 log msg (issue #1950)
    * fixed: 'svn export' bugs on deleted dirs or nonexistents (#2226, r13226)
    * fixed: 'svn export' on single file from working copy (issue #1708)
    * fixed: 'svn import' creating an empty revision (r14293)
    * fixed: 'svn commit' ignores --encoding when editing externally (#2244)
    * fixed: 'svn commit' log message lost if utf8-conversion failure (r13230)
    * fixed: 'svn diff' output encoding bug (r11461)
    * fixed: 'svn diff' showing prop-diffs on repos root dir (r13381-2)
    * fixed: 'svn diff' label reversal (issue #2033)
    * fixed: 'svn propget' prints extra newline in --strict mode (r14505)
    * fixed: 'svn propset' should skip unversioned files (#2030)
    * fixed: 'svn rm URL1 URL2 URL3...' huge memory usage (issue #2218)
    * fixed: 'svn mkdir' cleanup after failure (r11883)
    * fixed: 'svn status -u' crash in non-recursive wc's (issue #2122)
    * fixed: 'svn revert' should skip unversioned items (issues #2030, 2133)
    * fixed: 'svn revert' should suggest --recursive (issue #2114)
    * fixed: 'svn add/import' better detects invalid paths (issue #1954)
    * fixed: 'svn cleanup' should repair timestamps (r12012)
    * fixed: 'svn cat -rBASE' contacts repository (issue #1361)
    * fixed: fuzzily escape control-characters when sending over dav (#2147)
    * fixed: prevent client from manipulating svn:wc:* properties (r12523)
    * fixed: xml-escaping bugs over dav (r11090)
    * fixed: store symlinks as utf8, always work in non-utf8 locale (r11358-9)
    * fixed: bug in special-file detranslation (r11441)
    * fixed: show paths in local-style where we weren't (issue #1538)
    * fixed: detect invalid propnames better (issue #1832)
    * fixed: entire error stack not being printed (issue #1822)
    * fixed: improper utf8 conversion of revision strings (issue #1999)
    * fixed: use-commit-times timestamp bug (r12906)
    * fixed: don't comment out section-names in default config file (r11771)
    * more support for user-cancellation (r13083-4, 13086)
    * improved error messages (r12920, 11392, 11599, 11913, #2154, #2214)

   - Server:
    * mod_dav_svn autoversioning feature now complete (see release notes)
    * 'svnadmin create' now creates FSFS repositories by default (r13624)
    * new pre/post-revprop hook argument to describe propchange (r12162)
    * mod_authz_svn groups can now contain other groups (issue #2085)
    * 'svnadmin recover' now creates default svnserve passwd file (r11589)
    * increase default BDB cache size in DB_CONFIG (r13030)
    * new switches added:
       - 'svnlook diff --no-diff-added'        - suppress added files (#2180)
       - 'svnlook propget/proplist --revprop'  - show revision props (#2181)
       - 'svnadmin load --use-pre-commit-hook'
         'svnadmin load --use-post-commit-hook'- invoke hooks when loading
    * fixed: FSFS race condition on posix platforms (issue #2265)
    * fixed: change FSFS revprops atomically and safely (issue #2193)
    * fixed: FSFS should verify checksums (issue #2253)
    * fixed: 'svnadmin create' should clean up when it fails (r13200)
    * fixed: 'svnadmin load' compatibility on pre-0.14 dumpfiles (r12075)
    * fixed: 'svnadmin load' crashes on contentful rev 0 (issue #1674)
    * fixed: 'svnadmin dump' should write in console encoding (issue #1997)
    * fixed: check for null-streams in dump/load code (r10510)
    * fixed: hook script ignored when symlink is broken (issue #1700)
    * fixed: hook script may inherit server's stdin stream (r12155)
    * fixed: potential svnserve segfault (r13199)
    * fixed: svnserve handling mutually-exclusive options (issue #2251)
    * fixed: mod_authz_svn should log errors to httpd errorlog (issue #2182)
    * fixed: 'svnadmin hotcopy' failed to copy format files (r14678, r14683)
    * mailer.py: add win32 compatibility, plus other bugfixes

   - Both:
    * new 'locking' feature (issue #1478, see release notes for details):
        - new: 'svn lock/unlock', 'svnadmin lslocks/rmlocks', 'svnlook lock'
        - new: 'svn:needs-lock' property to enable communication
        - 'svn st [-u]' shows local or remote lock overview
        - 'svn info wc | URL'  shows local or remote lock details
        - 'svn commit' sends locks, 'svn up' removes stale locks
        - new hook scripts: pre-lock, pre-unlock, post-lock, post-unlock
    * speedups for 'svn blame' and other commands (see xdelta in release notes)
    * fixed: make both svnserve and svn:// urls work with IPv6 (r13235-6)
    * continued improvement of localized message translations:
        - German, Spanish, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
          Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese
        - more localized messages in all svn-related binaries

 Developer-visible changes:
 * binary diff algorithm now defaults to xdelta instead of vdelta
 * huge number of new APIs:
     - new locking APIs in svn_client.h, svn_ra.h, svn_repos.h, svn_fs.h
     - new 'flattened' svn_ra.h API, which imitates svn_fs.h  (issue #1931)
     - new notification API in svn_client.h, svn_wc.h
     - http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2005-04/0319.shtml has all API changes
 * fs now has its own 'format' file, independent of repos 'format' (r13387)
 * improve efficiency of delta combining algorithm (r13016, r13063)
 * make all BDB apis take explicit pool parameters (r13198, r13205)
 * remove libsvn_fs_base caching of node revisions (r13299)
 * libsvn_repos commit editor can now take incoming txn (r13733)
 * fixed: mod_dav_svn sending illegal editor-drive (issue #2258)
 * pool usage improvements (r12954, 12852, r13386, issue #1310)
 * SWIG bindings:  better API coverage overall.
    - new ruby bindings!
    - remove bitrotting swig-java bindings
    - perl and python bindings:  numerous improvements, see their own logs.
    - bindings tests now within svntest framework
 * javahl bindings:   numerous improvements, see its own logs.
 * many improvements to mailer.py and commit-email.pl
 * rewrite/improvements to gen-make build system, including VS.NET support
 * many improvements to the automated python testsuite (issue #2257)
 * book moved to separate repository (http://svn.red-bean.com/svnbook)

pkgsrc changes:
 * New package devel/ruby-subversion.
 * Switch to devel/swig13, which we no longer need at runtime.
 * Provide TEST_TARGET for p5-subversion.