Re: [jgit-dev] JGit without local filesystem

[Chris Aniszczyk <caniszczyk@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:33 AM, Shawn Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm starting to do the refactoring required to support JGit running on
> different storage technologies beyond just the local filesystem.  The
> bulk of the work is in [1], where I pull a lot of methods out of
> Repository up into a more abstract base class called GitRepository.
>
> Unfortunately, I hate this name "GitRepository".
>
> I would rather rename the current Repository class to FileRepository,
> and then make Repository available for this new abstract base class.
> Its a pretty severe API breakage for applications, including EGit.

+1, we have the power now to refactor and break. Once we hit 1.0
things will be a bit different.

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Chris Aniszczyk
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