}
@Override
- public TreeNode applyTouch(final ModifiedNode modification, final TreeNode currentMeta, final Version version) {
+ protected TreeNode applyTouch(final ModifiedNode modification, final TreeNode currentMeta, final Version version) {
/*
* The user may have issued an empty merge operation. In this case we do not perform
* a data tree mutation, do not pass GO, and do not collect useless garbage. It