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[JGIT PATCH 3/7] Fix FindBugs String == is bad form

From
Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
May 4, 2009, 23:30 UTC
Message-ID
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We only used "a == b" to test for both values == null, as we can't use a.equalsIgnoreCase if a is null. Instead test for that null case, and fall through for everything else.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
---
 .../src/org/spearce/jgit/lib/RepositoryConfig.java |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/org.spearce.jgit/src/org/spearce/jgit/lib/RepositoryConfig.java b/org.spearce.jgit/src/org/spearce/jgit/lib/RepositoryConfig.java
index 87fc254..cb287ee 100644
--- a/org.spearce.jgit/src/org/spearce/jgit/lib/RepositoryConfig.java
+++ b/org.spearce.jgit/src/org/spearce/jgit/lib/RepositoryConfig.java
@@ -1102,7 +1102,7 @@ boolean match(final String aBase, final String aExtendedBase,
 		}
 
 		private static boolean eq(final String a, final String b) {
-			if (a == b)
+			if (a == null && b == null)
 				return true;
 			if (a == null || b == null)
 				return false;
-- 
1.6.3.rc4.206.g03e16
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Message 3 of 8 in “Fix FindBugs exclude filter to work on UNIX platforms”
  1. 1/7 Fix FindBugs exclude filter to work on UNIX platformsShawn O. Pearce, May 4, 2009
  2. 2/7 Silence FindBugs "dubious use of GC" in PackFile.mmapShawn O. Pearce, May 4, 2009
  3. 3/7 Fix FindBugs String == is bad formShawn O. Pearce, May 4, 2009
  4. 4/7 Fix FindBugs load known null valueShawn O. Pearce, May 4, 2009
  5. 5/7 FindBugs: Fix use of byte[].toString() in error messagesShawn O. Pearce, May 4, 2009
  6. 6/7 Make TransportLocal.StreamRewritingThread staticShawn O. Pearce, May 4, 2009
  7. 7/7 FindBugs: Disable clone() idiom testsShawn O. Pearce, May 4, 2009
  8. Sohn, MatthiasMay 6, 2009

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