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package org.netbeans.modules.vcscore.commands;

import org.netbeans.api.vcs.commands.Command;

/**
 * A command, that permits chaining of several command. This is used e.g. when
 * customizing a command with extra data for each file or when the corresponding
 * task can run only on one file at a time.
 *
 * @author  Martin Entlicher
 */
public interface ChainingCommand extends Command {
    
    /**
     * Get the next command, that should be procesed after this one.
     * @return The next command to be processed.
     */
    public Command getNextCommand();
    
    /**
     * Set the next command, that should be procesed after this one.
     * @param cmd The next command to be processed.
     */
    public void setNextCommand(Command cmd);
    
}