[jira] [Created] (SCM-914) InfoItem.lastChangedDate is leaky abstraction

[Tobias Gruetzmacher (JIRA)]

Tobias Gruetzmacher created SCM-914:
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Summary: InfoItem.lastChangedDate is leaky abstraction
Key: SCM-914
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SCM-914
Project: Maven SCM
Issue Type: Bug
Components: maven-scm-api
Reporter: Tobias Gruetzmacher


I was looking into implementing [https://github.com/mojohaus/buildnumber-maven-plugin/pull/16] in a sane way, but had to conclude that InfoItem.lastChangedDate is unfortunately just a string and not a Data, so will leak the console output of different providers to the user.

Does anybody see a sane way to fix this API and create a sane abstraction for different SCMs? If yes, I would try to go ahead with the following tasks:
# Fix InfoItem, so that lastChangedDate is a Date
# Fix the current providers filling this field (svnexe and svnjava AFAICS - aside: why is svnjava not part of the maven-scm repository?)
# Implement this feature for at least gitexe (and maybe jgit) so I can use it for my usecase

Ideas, comments?



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