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• Rev 2429 – 4787 d 12 h
• Author: dpurdie

• Log message:

  Major changes:
  * Make-time performance improvement of packaging
  Improved the performance of the 'packaging' and 'installing' operations
  by an order of magnitude under windows. Replaced the shell scripting of
  these operations with a dedicated program.
  
  This change also addressed a long-time Windows issue with the packaging
  of files into very long (>~250) paths as the utility supports the full
  windows path scheme.
  
  Minor changes:
  * Command Changes: jats clobber
  The 'jats clobber' command has been significantly sped up
  The 'clobber' no longer unpackages and uninstalls files one by one
  from the relevant directories. The entire directory is deleted.
  
  The original sequence can still be perform, if required, with the commands
  jats make clobber
  This operates as before.
  
  * Utility: escrow
  Support to extract packages with a subdirectory structure that
  breaks the JATS rule that the TTB directory names are reserved.
  Some COTS packages break the rule.
  
  * Utility: svn : delete-branch
  Modified the svn branch deletion operation.
  With no arguments it will show the current branch.
  
  * Utility: svn : url
  Improved the conversions supported. Now handles leading SVN::
  and will decode tags of the form SVN::path::tag
  
  * Utility: svn : import
  Added a '-nocommit' option to allow the results of the import to be
  inspected before committing them to the Repository.
  
  * Subversion Support
  Detect authentication errors and issue user-friendly error messages
  showing the user what to do.
  
  The special label of TIMESTAMP now creates a tag with a .WIP
  suffix. This allows the tag to be deleted in the VIX protected
  repositories.