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Description
The one argument constructor to HTable was removed at some point, which means that you now have to pass in a Configuration to instantiate an HTable. This is annoying for me when I create quick scripts.
This JIRA is a tiny patch which lets you get an HTable instance in the shell by doing
foo_table = @shell.hbase_table('foo').table
Basically, it is changing table to be a public member rather than a private one.