musescore / musescore/MuseScore

Section breaks are overwritten by system breaks

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Description

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Create empty score
  2. Apply section break somewhere in the middle
  3. Press M to enable MMRests
    → you have two MMRests now, with the section break in between
  4. Select the "measure" of the first one
  5. In the Palettes, click on the System break element
    → the MMRests are merged into one, and you don't see the section break anymore
  6. Undo → doesn't work and/or causes crash

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/48658420/212558703-e6565af8-d8aa-4d87-94ab-bd81d69e6229.mov

Expected behaviour
The MMRests should stay separated by the section break

Additional context
Same happens in MS3.6.2, except for the crash on undo

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