diff --git a/dev-support/hbase_jdiff_acrossSingularityTemplate.xml b/dev-support/hbase_jdiff_acrossSingularityTemplate.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index e8c5867..0000000
--- a/dev-support/hbase_jdiff_acrossSingularityTemplate.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-distributed with this work for additional information
-regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-"License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
-  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
-Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-"AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-specific language governing permissions and limitations
-under the License.
--->
-
-<project name="jdiff" default="jdiff_report" basedir="JDIFF_FOLDER">
-
-<description>
-Creates a report in the directory "hbase_jdiff_report-p-PREVIOUS_BRANCH-c-CURRENT_BRANCH" of the default jdiff report folder.
-This defaults to /tmp/jdiff but can optionally be specified by export $JDIFF_WORKING_DIRECTORY.
-</description>
-
-<target name="jdiff_report" depends="">
-  <!-- This variable is used by the Ant JDiff task. Set it to the
-       location where the jdiff package was unpacked -->
-  <property name="JDIFF_HOME" value="JDIFF_HOME_NAME" />
-  <property name="OLD_BRANCH" value="OLD_BRANCH_NAME"/>
-  <property name="NEW_BRANCH" value="NEW_BRANCH_NAME"/>
-
-  <taskdef name="jdiff"
-           classname="jdiff.JDiffAntTask"
-           classpath="${JDIFF_HOME}/antjdiff.jar" />
-  <jdiff destdir="hbase_jdiff_report"
-         verbose="off"
-         stats="on">
-    <old name="V1">
-      <!-- This is the location of your old source files -->
-      <dirset dir="${OLD_BRANCH}/src/main/java" includes="**" />
-    </old>
-    <new name="V2">
-      <!-- This is the location of your new source files -->
-      <dirset dir="${NEW_BRANCH}/hbase-server/src/main/java" includes="**" />
-      <dirset dir="${NEW_BRANCH}/hbase-client/src/main/java" includes="**" />
-      <dirset dir="${NEW_BRANCH}/hbase-common/src/main/java" includes="**" />
-      <dirset dir="${NEW_BRANCH}/hbase-protocol/src/main/java" includes="**" />
-      <dirset dir="${NEW_BRANCH}/hbase-it/src/test/java" includes="**" />
-      <dirset dir="${NEW_BRANCH}/hbase-hadoop-compat/src/main/java" includes="**" />
-      <dirset dir="${NEW_BRANCH}/hbase-hadoop2-compat/src/main/java" includes="**" />
-    </new>
-  </jdiff>
-</target>
-
-</project>
-
diff --git a/dev-support/hbase_jdiff_afterSingularityTemplate.xml b/dev-support/hbase_jdiff_afterSingularityTemplate.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 6c4cd93..0000000
--- a/dev-support/hbase_jdiff_afterSingularityTemplate.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-distributed with this work for additional information
-regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-"License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
-  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
-Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-"AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-specific language governing permissions and limitations
-under the License.
--->
-
-<project name="jdiff" default="jdiff_report" basedir="JDIFF_FOLDER">
-
-<description>
-Creates a report in the directory "hbase_jdiff_report-p-PREVIOUS_BRANCH-c-CURRENT_BRANCH" of the default jdiff report folder.
-This defaults to /tmp/jdiff but can optionally be specified by export $JDIFF_WORKING_DIRECTORY.
-</description>
-
-<target name="jdiff_report" depends="">
-  <!-- This variable is used by the Ant JDiff task. Set it to the
-       location where the jdiff package was unpacked -->
-  <property name="JDIFF_HOME" value="JDIFF_HOME_NAME" />
-  <property name="OLD_BRANCH" value="OLD_BRANCH_NAME"/>
-  <property name="NEW_BRANCH" value="NEW_BRANCH_NAME"/>
-
-  <taskdef name="jdiff"
-           classname="jdiff.JDiffAntTask"
-           classpath="${JDIFF_HOME}/antjdiff.jar" />
-  <jdiff destdir="hbase_jdiff_report"
-         verbose="off"
-         stats="on">
-    <old name="V1">
-      <!-- This is the location of your old source files -->
-      <dirset dir="${OLD_BRANCH}/hbase-server/src/main/java" includes="**" />
-      <dirset dir="${OLD_BRANCH}/hbase-client/src/main/java" includes="**" />
-      <dirset dir="${OLD_BRANCH}/hbase-common/src/main/java" includes="**" />
-      <dirset dir="${OLD_BRANCH}/hbase-protocol/src/main/java" includes="**" />
-      <dirset dir="${OLD_BRANCH}/hbase-it/src/test/java" includes="**" />
-      <dirset dir="${OLD_BRANCH}/hbase-hadoop-compat/src/main/java" includes="**" />
-      <dirset dir="${OLD_BRANCH}/hbase-hadoop2-compat/src/main/java" includes="**" />
-
-    </old>
-    <new name="V2">
-      <!-- This is the location of your new source files -->
-      <dirset dir="${NEW_BRANCH}/hbase-server/src/main/java" includes="**" />
-      <dirset dir="${NEW_BRANCH}/hbase-client/src/main/java" includes="**" />
-      <dirset dir="${NEW_BRANCH}/hbase-common/src/main/java" includes="**" />
-      <dirset dir="${NEW_BRANCH}/hbase-protocol/src/main/java" includes="**" />
-      <dirset dir="${NEW_BRANCH}/hbase-it/src/test/java" includes="**" />
-      <dirset dir="${NEW_BRANCH}/hbase-hadoop-compat/src/main/java" includes="**" />
-      <dirset dir="${NEW_BRANCH}/hbase-hadoop2-compat/src/main/java" includes="**" />
-    </new>
-  </jdiff>
-</target>
-
-</project>
-
diff --git a/dev-support/hbase_jdiff_template.xml b/dev-support/hbase_jdiff_template.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 21fe8ed..0000000
--- a/dev-support/hbase_jdiff_template.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-distributed with this work for additional information
-regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-"License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
-  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
-Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-"AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-specific language governing permissions and limitations
-under the License.
--->
-
-<project name="jdiff" default="jdiff_report" basedir="JDIFF_FOLDER">
-
-<description>
-Creates a report in the directory "hbase_jdiff_report-p-PREVIOUS_BRANCH-c-CURRENT_BRANCH" of the default jdiff report folder.
-This defaults to /tmp/jdiff but can optionally be specified by export $JDIFF_WORKING_DIRECTORY.
-</description>
-
-<target name="jdiff_report" depends="">
-  <!-- This variable is used by the Ant JDiff task. Set it to the
-       location where the jdiff package was unpacked -->
-  <property name="JDIFF_HOME" value="JDIFF_HOME_NAME" />
-  <property name="OLD_BRANCH" value="OLD_BRANCH_NAME"/>
-  <property name="NEW_BRANCH" value="NEW_BRANCH_NAME"/>
-
-  <taskdef name="jdiff"
-           classname="jdiff.JDiffAntTask"
-           classpath="${JDIFF_HOME}/antjdiff.jar" />
-  <jdiff destdir="hbase_jdiff_report"
-         verbose="off"
-         stats="on">
-    <old name="V1">
-      <!-- This is the location of your old source files -->
-      <dirset dir="${OLD_BRANCH}/src/main/java" includes="**" />
-    </old>
-    <new name="V2">
-      <!-- This is the location of your new source files -->
-      <dirset dir="${NEW_BRANCH}/src/main/java" includes="**" />
-    </new>
-  </jdiff>
-</target>
-
-</project>
-
diff --git a/dev-support/jdiffHBasePublicAPI.sh b/dev-support/jdiffHBasePublicAPI.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 2000d2a..0000000
--- a/dev-support/jdiffHBasePublicAPI.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,249 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-set -e
-
-# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-# distributed with this work for additional information
-# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-# specific language governing permissions and limitations
-# under the License.
-
-################################################ ABOUT JDIFF #######################################################
-#
-#   What is JDiff? JDiff is a tool for comparing the public APIs of two separate Java codebases. Like diff, it will
-#   give additions, changes, and removals. It will output an HTML report with the information.
-#   To learn more, visit http://javadiff.sourceforge.net/.
-#   JDiff is licensed under LGPL.
-
-############################################# QUICK-START EXAMPLE ##################################################
-#
-#   Suppose we wanted to see the API diffs between HBase 0.92 and HBase 0.94. We could use this tool like so:
-#   > ./jdiffHBasePublicAPI.sh https://github.com/apache/hbase.git 0.92 https://github.com/apache/hbase.git 0.94
-#
-#   This would generate a report in the local folder /tmp/jdiff/hbase_jdiff_report-p-0.92-c-0.94/
-#   To view the report, simply examine /tmp/jdiff/hbase_jdiff_report-p-0.92-c-0.94/changes.html in your choice of
-#   browser.
-#
-#   Note that this works because 0.92 and 0.94 have the source directory structure that is specified in the
-#   hbase_jdiff_template.xml file. To compare 0.95 to 0.96, which have the post-singularity structure,  two other
-#   template files (included) are used. The formats are autoated and is all taken care of automatically by the script.
-#
-#   On a local machine, JDiff reports have taken ~20-30 minutes to run. On Jenkins, it has taken over 35 minutes
-#   in some cases. Your mileage may vary. Trunk and 0.95 take more time than 0.92 and 0.94.
-#
-#
-############################################ SPECIFYING A LOCAL REPO ###############################################
-#
-#   The JDiff tool also works with local code. Instead of specifying a repo and a branch, you can specifying the
-#   absolute path of the ./hbase folder and a name for code (e.g. experimental_94).
-#
-#   A local repo can be specified for none, one, or both of the sources.
-#
-############################################### EXAMPLE USE CASES ##################################################
-#
-#   Example 1: Generate a report to check if potential change doesn't break API compatibility with Apache HBase 0.94
-#
-#   In this case, you could compare the version you are using against a repo branch where your changes are.
-#   >  ./jdiffHBasePublicAPI.sh https://github.com/apache/hbase.git 0.94 https://github.com/MY_REPO/hbase.git 0.94
-#
-#   Example 2: Generate a report to check if two branches of the same repo have any public API incompatibilities
-#   >  ./jdiffHBasePublicAPI.sh https://github.com/MY_REPO/hbase.git $BRANCH_1  \
-#   >   https://github.com/MY_REPO/hbase.git $BRANCH_2
-#
-#   Example 3: Have Example 1 done in a special directory in the user's home folder
-#
-#   >  export JDIFF_WORKING_DIRECTORY=~/jdiff_reports
-#   >  ./jdiffHBasePublicAPI.sh https://github.com/apache/hbase.git 0.94 https://github.com/MY_REPO/hbase.git 0.94
-#
-#   Example 4: Check the API diff of a local change against an existing repo branch.
-#   >  ./jdiffHBasePublicAPI.sh https://github.com/apache/hbase.git 0.95 /home/aleks/exp_hbase/hbase experiment_95
-#
-#   Example 5: Compare two local repos for public API changes
-#   >  ./jdiffHBasePublicAPI.sh /home/aleks/stable_hbase/hbase stable_95 /home/aleks/exp_hbase/hbase experiment_95
-#
-#
-################################################## NOTE ON USAGE ###################################################
-#
-#   1. When using this tool, please specify the initial version first and the current version second. The semantics
-#      do not make sense otherwise. For example: jdiff 94 95 is good. jdiff 95 94 is bad
-#
-############################################# READING A JDIFF REPORT ###############################################
-#
-#   The purpose of the JDiff report is show things that have changed between two versions of the public API. A user
-#   would use this report to determine if committing a change would cause existing API clients to break. To do so,
-#   there are specific things that one should look for in the report.
-#
-#   1. Identify the classes that constitute the public API. An example in 0.94 might be all classes in
-#      org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.*
-#   2. After identifying those classes, go through each one and look for offending changes.
-#      Those may include, but are not limited to:
-#      1. Removed methods
-#      2. Changed methods (including changes in return type and exception types)
-#      3. Methods added to interfaces
-#      4. Changed class inheritence information (may in innocuous but definitely worth validating)
-#      5. Removed or renamed public static member variables and constants
-#      6. Removed or renamed packages
-#      7. Class moved to a different package
-
-########################################### SETTING THE JDIFF WORKING DIRECTORY ####################################
-#
-#   By default, the working environment of jdiff is /tmp/jdiff. However, sometimes it is nice to have it place reports
-#   and temp files elsewhere. In that case, please export JDIFF_WORKING_DIRECTORY into the bash environment and this
-#   script will pick that up and use it.
-#
-
-scriptDirectory=$(dirname ${BASH_SOURCE[0]})
-x=`echo $scriptDirectory | sed "s{\.{{g"`
-DEV_SUPPORT_HOME="`pwd`$x"
-. $scriptDirectory/jdiffHBasePublicAPI_common.sh
-
-EXPECTED_ARGS=4
-
-if [[ "$#" -ne "$EXPECTED_ARGS" ]]; then
-  echo "This tool expects $EXPECTED_ARGS arguments, but received $#. Please check your command and try again.";
-  echo "Usage: $0 <repoUrl or local source directory 1> <branch or source name 1> <repoUrl or local source directory 2> <branch or source name 2>"
-  exit 1;
-fi
-
-echo "JDiff evaluation beginning:";
-isGitRepo $1
-FIRST_SOURCE_TYPE=$INPUT_FORMAT;
-isGitRepo $3
-SECOND_SOURCE_TYPE=$INPUT_FORMAT;
-
-PREVIOUS_BRANCH=$2  ## We will still call it a branch even if it's not from a git repo.
-CURRENT_BRANCH=$4
-
-echo "We are going to compare source 1 which is a $FIRST_SOURCE_TYPE and source 2, which is a $SECOND_SOURCE_TYPE"
-
-
-# Check that if either source is from a git repo, that the name is reasonable.
-if [[ "$FIRST_SOURCE_TYPE" = "git_repo" ]]; then
-
-  git check-ref-format --branch $2
-fi
-
-if [[ "$SECOND_SOURCE_TYPE" = "git_repo" ]]; then
-
-  git check-ref-format --branch $4
-fi
-
-#If the JDIFF_WORKING_DIRECTORY is set, then we will output the report there. Otherwise, to the default location
-if [[ "$JDIFF_WORKING_DIRECTORY" = "" ]]; then
-
-  JDIFF_WORKING_DIRECTORY=/tmp/jdiff
-  echo "JDIFF_WORKING_DIRECTORY not set. That's not an issue. We will default it to $JDIFF_WORKING_DIRECTORY."
-else
-  echo "JDIFF_WORKING_DIRECTORY set to $JDIFF_WORKING_DIRECTORY";
-fi
-mkdir -p $JDIFF_WORKING_DIRECTORY
-
-# We will need this to reference the template we want to use
-cd $JDIFF_WORKING_DIRECTORY
-scenario_template_name=hbase_jdiff_p-$PREVIOUS_BRANCH-c-$CURRENT_BRANCH.xml
-
-
-# Pull down JDiff tool and unpack it
-if [ ! -d jdiff-1.1.1-with-incompatible-option ]; then
-  curl -O http://cloud.github.com/downloads/tomwhite/jdiff/jdiff-1.1.1-with-incompatible-option.zip
-  unzip jdiff-1.1.1-with-incompatible-option.zip
-fi
-
-JDIFF_HOME=`pwd`/jdiff-1.1.1-with-incompatible-option
-cd $JDIFF_WORKING_DIRECTORY
-
-# Pull down sources if necessary. Note that references to previous change are prefaced with p- in order to avoid collission of branch names
-if [[ "$FIRST_SOURCE_TYPE" = "git_repo" ]]; then
-
-  PREVIOUS_REPO=$1
-  rm -rf p-$PREVIOUS_BRANCH
-  mkdir -p p-$PREVIOUS_BRANCH
-  cd p-$PREVIOUS_BRANCH
-  git clone --depth 1 $PREVIOUS_REPO && cd hbase && git checkout origin/$PREVIOUS_BRANCH
-  cd $JDIFF_WORKING_DIRECTORY
-  HBASE_1_HOME=`pwd`/p-$PREVIOUS_BRANCH/hbase
-else
-  HBASE_1_HOME=$1
-fi
-
-echo "HBASE_1_HOME set to $HBASE_1_HOME"
-echo "In HBASE_1_HOME, we have"
-ls -la $HBASE_1_HOME
-
-if [[ "$SECOND_SOURCE_TYPE" = "git_repo" ]]; then
-  CURRENT_REPO=$3
-  rm -rf $JDIFF_WORKING_DIRECTORY/c-$CURRENT_BRANCH
-  mkdir -p $JDIFF_WORKING_DIRECTORY/c-$CURRENT_BRANCH
-  cd $JDIFF_WORKING_DIRECTORY/c-$CURRENT_BRANCH
-  git clone --depth 1 $CURRENT_REPO && cd hbase && git checkout origin/$CURRENT_BRANCH
-  cd $JDIFF_WORKING_DIRECTORY
-  HBASE_2_HOME=`pwd`/c-$CURRENT_BRANCH/hbase
-else
-  HBASE_2_HOME=$3
-fi
-
-echo "HBASE_2_HOME set to $HBASE_2_HOME"
-echo "In HBASE_2_HOME, we have"
-ls -la $HBASE_2_HOME
-
-# Next step is to pull down the proper template based on the directory structure
-isNewFormat $HBASE_1_HOME
-export P_FORMAT=$BRANCH_FORMAT
-
-isNewFormat $HBASE_2_HOME
-export C_FORMAT=$BRANCH_FORMAT
-
-if  [[ "$C_FORMAT" = "new" ]]; then
-
-  if [[ "$P_FORMAT" = "new" ]]; then
-    templateFile=$DEV_SUPPORT_HOME/hbase_jdiff_afterSingularityTemplate.xml
-    echo "Previous format is of the new style. We'll be using template $templateFile";
-  else
-    templateFile=$DEV_SUPPORT_HOME/hbase_jdiff_acrossSingularityTemplate.xml
-    echo "Previous format is of the old style. We'll be using template $templateFile";
-  fi
-
-else
-
-  if [[ "P_FORMAT" != "old" ]]; then
-    echo "When using this tool, please specify the initial version first and the current version second. They should be in ascending chronological order.
-          The semantics do not make sense otherwise. For example: jdiff 94 95 is good. jdiff 95 94 is bad."
-    echo "Exiting the script."
-    exit 5;
-  fi
-  templateFile=$DEV_SUPPORT_HOME/hbase_jdiff_template.xml
-  echo "Both formats are using the 94 and earlier style directory format. We'll be using template $templateFile"
-fi
-
-cp $templateFile $JDIFF_WORKING_DIRECTORY/$scenario_template_name
-
-### Configure the jdiff script
-
-### Note that PREVIOUS_BRANCH and CURRENT_BRANCH will be the absolute locations of the source.
-echo "Configuring the jdiff script"
-sed -i "s]hbase_jdiff_report]hbase_jdiff_report-p-$PREVIOUS_BRANCH-c-$CURRENT_BRANCH]g" $JDIFF_WORKING_DIRECTORY/$scenario_template_name
-sed -i "s]JDIFF_HOME_NAME]$JDIFF_HOME]g" $JDIFF_WORKING_DIRECTORY/$scenario_template_name
-sed -i "s]OLD_BRANCH_NAME]$HBASE_1_HOME]g" $JDIFF_WORKING_DIRECTORY/$scenario_template_name
-sed -i "s]NEW_BRANCH_NAME]$HBASE_2_HOME]g" $JDIFF_WORKING_DIRECTORY/$scenario_template_name
-
-sed -i "s]V1]$PREVIOUS_BRANCH]g" $JDIFF_WORKING_DIRECTORY/$scenario_template_name
-sed -i "s]V2]$CURRENT_BRANCH]g" $JDIFF_WORKING_DIRECTORY/$scenario_template_name
-
-sed -i "s]JDIFF_FOLDER]$JDIFF_WORKING_DIRECTORY]g" $JDIFF_WORKING_DIRECTORY/$scenario_template_name
-
-echo "Running jdiff";
-ls -la $JDIFF_WORKING_DIRECTORY;
-ant -f $JDIFF_WORKING_DIRECTORY/$scenario_template_name;
-
-echo "jdiff operation complete. Report placed into $JDIFF_WORKING_DIRECTORY/hbase_jdiff_report-p-$PREVIOUS_BRANCH-c-$CURRENT_BRANCH/changes.html";
-
diff --git a/dev-support/jdiffHBasePublicAPI_common.sh b/dev-support/jdiffHBasePublicAPI_common.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 1cc9954..0000000
--- a/dev-support/jdiffHBasePublicAPI_common.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,76 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-# distributed with this work for additional information
-# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-# specific language governing permissions and limitations
-# under the License.
-#
-##########################################################################################################################
-#
-### Purpose: To describe whether the directory specified has the old directory format or the new directory format
-### Usage: This function takes one argument: The directory in question
-### It will set the temporary variable BRANCH_FORMAT. This variable can change with every call, so it is up to the user to
-### store it into something else as soon as the function exists
-### Example:
-### > isNewFormat ./myDevDir/testing/branch/hbase
-isNewFormat() {
-
-  echo "Determining if directory $1 is of the 0.94 and before OR 0.95 and after versions";
-  if [[ "$1" = "" ]]; then
-    echo "Directory not specified. Exiting";
-  fi
-  echo "First, check that $1 exists";
-  if [[ -d $1 ]]; then
-    echo "Directory $1 exists"
-  else
-    echo "Directory $1 does not exist. Exiting";
-    exit 1;
-  fi
-
-  if [[ -d "$1/hbase-server" ]]; then
-
-    echo "The directory $1/hbase-server exists so this is of the new format";
-    export BRANCH_FORMAT=new;
-
-  else
-    echo "The directory $1/hbase-server does not exist. Therefore, this is of the old format";
-    export BRANCH_FORMAT=old;
-  fi
-}
-
-### Purpose: To describe whether the argument specified is a git repo or a local directory
-### Usage: This function takes one argument: The directory in question
-### It will set the temporary variable INPUT_FORMAT. This variable can change with every call, so it is up to the user to
-### store it into something else as soon as the function exists
-### Example:
-### > isGitRepo ./myDevDir/testing/branch/hbase
-
-isGitRepo() {
-
-  echo "Determining if this is a local directory or a git repo.";
-  if [[ "$1" = "" ]]; then
-    echo "No value specified for repo or directory. Exiting."
-    exit 1;
-  fi
-
-  if [[ `echo $1 | grep 'http://'` || `echo $1 | grep 'https://'` || `echo $1 | grep 'git://'`  ]]; then
-    echo "Looks like $1 is a git repo";
-    export INPUT_FORMAT=git_repo
-  else
-    echo "$1 is a local directory";
-    export INPUT_FORMAT=local_directory
-  fi
-
-
-}