HADOOP-10208. Remove duplicate initialization in StringUtils.getStringCollection. Contributed by Benoy Antony.

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/common/trunk@1556602 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt

@@ -412,6 +412,9 @@ Release 2.4.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-10198. DomainSocket: add support for socketpair.
     (Colin Patrick McCabe via wang)
 
+    HADOOP-10208. Remove duplicate initialization in StringUtils.getStringCollection.
+    (Benoy Antony via jing9)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HADOOP-9748. Reduce blocking on UGI.ensureInitialized (daryn)

hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/StringUtils.java

@@ -343,7 +343,6 @@ public class StringUtils {
     if (str == null)
       return values;
     StringTokenizer tokenizer = new StringTokenizer(str, delim);
-    values = new ArrayList<String>();
     while (tokenizer.hasMoreTokens()) {
       values.add(tokenizer.nextToken());
     }