RFR: JDK-8223355: Redundant output by javadoc

Sat Feb 20 01:47:37 UTC 2021

On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 18:51:44 GMT, Jonathan Gibbons <jjg at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This change addresses a bug that was observed while playing with small demo API: some files may be generated twice.
> 
> The fix is to build a single set of the files to be generated.
> 
> Note: this bug also affected the generation of the main JDK API docs.  According to the log file, before the fix we were generating 14812 files; now, we are generating only 10146 files! That's a drop of 4466 files or over 30%!

Just curious, does this bug affect users who specify all files individually or users who just specify a directory without detailing selection rules for classes or packages?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2652