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From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: Alex Blewitt <alex.blewitt@gmail.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 21:09:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200908122109.29560.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090812142049.GA1033@spearce.org>

onsdag 12 augusti 2009 16:20:49 skrev "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>:
> 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() ?

Ok with me.

-- robin

      reply	other threads:[~2009-08-12 19:09 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
2009-08-12 19:09           ` Robin Rosenberg [this message]

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