internetarchive / internetarchive/openlibrary
Edition revisions with zero changes being created
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Affects: Librarians
Lead: @jimchamp
Priority: 3
Theme: Editing
Type: Bug
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Description
The _work_ edit referenced in bug report #6016 caused an _edition_ revision with no changes to be created unnecessarily. This confuses the provenance and edit history when someone is listed as having modified the record when they didn't.
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https://openlibrary.org/books/OL27504584M/Some_Answered_Questions?_compare=Comparer&b=2&a=1&m=diff
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