From 2da01fb183d56531b21a9b976aed017312b94422 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Inderjeet Singh <inder123@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:58:32 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Deleted deepCopy as GsonBuilder should not be designed as a
 reusable object.

---
 .../java/com/google/gson/GsonBuilder.java     | 26 -------------------
 1 file changed, 26 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gson/src/main/java/com/google/gson/GsonBuilder.java b/gson/src/main/java/com/google/gson/GsonBuilder.java
index db9e407f..76e6dd61 100644
--- a/gson/src/main/java/com/google/gson/GsonBuilder.java
+++ b/gson/src/main/java/com/google/gson/GsonBuilder.java
@@ -93,32 +93,6 @@ public final class GsonBuilder {
   public GsonBuilder() {
   }
 
-  /**
-   * Creates a deep copy of this instance: The collections for factories are deep copied, but the
-   * factories and type adapters themselves are not.
-   *
-   * @since 2.1
-   */
-  public GsonBuilder deepCopy() {
-    GsonBuilder copy = new GsonBuilder();
-    copy.excluder = excluder;
-    copy.longSerializationPolicy = longSerializationPolicy;
-    copy.fieldNamingPolicy = fieldNamingPolicy;
-    copy.instanceCreators.putAll(instanceCreators);
-    copy.factories.addAll(factories);
-    copy.hierarchyFactories.addAll(hierarchyFactories);
-    copy.serializeNulls = serializeNulls;
-    copy.datePattern = datePattern;
-    copy.dateStyle = dateStyle;
-    copy.timeStyle = timeStyle;
-    copy.complexMapKeySerialization = complexMapKeySerialization;
-    copy.serializeSpecialFloatingPointValues = serializeSpecialFloatingPointValues;
-    copy.escapeHtmlChars = escapeHtmlChars;
-    copy.prettyPrinting = prettyPrinting;
-    copy.generateNonExecutableJson = generateNonExecutableJson;
-    return copy;
-  }
-
   /**
    * Configures Gson to enable versioning support.
    *