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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Alex Blewitt <alex.blewitt@gmail.com>
Cc: "robin.rosenberg@dewire.com" <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>,
	"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [EGIT PATCH] Provide a more JavaBeans-style 'getName' accessor for the id Signed-off-by: Alex Blewitt <alex.blewitt@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:20:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090812142049.GA1033@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8ACC6C83-75FD-477C-9083-96CA426FC069@gmail.com>

Alex Blewitt <alex.blewitt@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10 Aug 2009, at 21:59, "Shawn O." <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
>>
>>>> ./org/spearce/jgit/revwalk/RevTag.java:206: getName() in
>>>> org.spearce.jgit.revwalk.RevTag cannot override getName() in
>>>> org.spearce.jgit.lib.AnyObjectId; overridden method is final
>>
>> I can't apply this patch because getName() on RevTag is already
>> defined with a different meaning.  :-(
>
> That sounds dangerous. We now have a .name() and a .getName() with  
> different semantics. Can we not change the RevTag method name to  
> something else so that we dont have an inconsistency?

Good point.  We didn't think that RevTag.getName method through
very well.  Rename it to getTagName() ?

-- 
Shawn.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-12 14:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-09 22:57 [EGIT PATCH] Provide a more JavaBeans-style 'getName' accessor for the id Signed-off-by: Alex Blewitt <alex.blewitt@gmail.com> Alex Blewitt
2009-05-10 21:19 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-08-10 15:52 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-08-10 18:11   ` Alex Blewitt
2009-08-10 18:19   ` Alex Blewitt
2009-08-10 20:59     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-08-11 12:53       ` Alex Blewitt
2009-08-12 14:20         ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2009-08-12 19:09           ` Robin Rosenberg

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