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patchEquals method should not assume anything about the type of its argument

Subject: [PATCH JGIT] Equals method should not assume anything about the type of its argument

## tl;dr

2 messages between Apr 29, 2009 and Apr 29, 2009. Diffs are folded; open one to read it.

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Sohn, Matthias· Apr 29, 2009, 21:47 UTC · lore
From: Matthias Sohn <matthias.sohn@sap.com>
The equals(Object o) method shouldn't make any assumptions about the
type of o. It should simply return false if o is not the same type as
this.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Sohn <matthias.sohn@sap.com>
---
Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
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> FWIW, your From header in the emails comes out "Sohn, Matthias"
> while your Signed-off-By is as above.  This means that when I slam
> your patch through git-am I get an author name of "Sohn, Matthias",
> which looks damn funny.  I have to remember to edit the patch after
> the fact to make it come out correct.
>
> Any change you can get your MUA to behave better?  Or is this
> Exchange enforcing a nice uniform standard... *sigh*

Didn't find a way to get around our Exchange server mangling the from header, hence trying to give From: in mail body. If this doesn't help I will issue a ticket for our Exchange administration to get this solved.

.../src/org/spearce/jgit/lib/AnyObjectId.java      |    5 ++++-
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
Show changes to org.spearce.jgit/src/org/spearce/jgit/lib/AnyObjectId.java +4 −1
diff --git a/org.spearce.jgit/src/org/spearce/jgit/lib/AnyObjectId.java b/org.spearce.jgit/src/org/spearce/jgit/lib/AnyObjectId.java
index 2e3a43e..acb3cb5 100644
--- a/org.spearce.jgit/src/org/spearce/jgit/lib/AnyObjectId.java
+++ b/org.spearce.jgit/src/org/spearce/jgit/lib/AnyObjectId.java
@@ -253,7 +253,10 @@ public boolean equals(final AnyObjectId other) {
 	}
 
 	public boolean equals(final Object o) {
-		return equals((AnyObjectId) o);
+		if (o instanceof AnyObjectId)
+			return equals((AnyObjectId) o);
+		else
+			return false;
 	}
 
 	/**
-- 
1.6.2.2.1669.g7eaf8
Shawn O. Pearce· Apr 29, 2009, 21:51 UTC · re: Sohn, Matthias · lore

Re: [PATCH JGIT] Equals method should not assume anything about the type of its argument

"Sohn, Matthias" <matthias.sohn@sap.com> wrote:
> From: Matthias Sohn <matthias.sohn@sap.com>
...
> Signed-off-by: Matthias Sohn <matthias.sohn@sap.com>
> Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> > FWIW, your From header in the emails comes out "Sohn, Matthias"
...
> Didn't find a way to get around our Exchange server mangling the from header, 
> hence trying to give From: in mail body. If this doesn't help I will issue a 
> ticket for our Exchange administration to get this solved.
Oh, yea, doing that works.  :-)
Thanks.
-- 
Shawn.

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