[HADOOP-11661] Deprecate FileUtil#copyMerge

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.8.0, 3.0.0-alpha1
• Component/s: util
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Brahma Reddy Battula
• Reporter: Brahma Reddy Battula
• Created: 02/Mar/15 19:40
• Updated: 30/Aug/16 01:30
• Resolved: 01/Apr/16 05:05

Description

FileUtil#copyMerge is currently unused in the Hadoop source tree. In branch-1, it had been part of the implementation of the hadoop fs -getmerge shell command. In branch-2, the code for that shell command was rewritten in a way that no longer requires this method.

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https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-11392?focusedCommentId=14339336&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-14339336

Issue Links

• is related to: HADOOP-11392 Use IOUtils.closeStream while closing streams in FileUtil.java
• is related to: HDFS-8060 org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileUtil.copyMerge should merge all files in recursive sub directories
• is related to: HADOOP-12967 Remove FileUtil#copyMerge