steveloughran commented on issue #1450: MAPREDUCE-7234. Fixed typo in 
isSplitable methods
URL: https://github.com/apache/hadoop/pull/1450#issuecomment-533167830
 
 
   -1, with the reason being "yes, we agree its wrong, but its out in the wild 
and we are trapped"
   
   FileInputFormat is tagged as public/stable and we just can't change it. Not 
without breaking every custom input format which overrides it, or every 
application which also looks at the values (spark, hive, tez, ...)
   
   Sorry. We feel your pain, it irritates us all too much. But it's like most 
of the windows APIs: once you ship something broadly used, you are stuck with 
it.

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