Bug or feature?

[Paul A. Rubin]

Before I file a ticket on this, I'd like to get a sense of whether it is 
in fact a bug v. intended behavior.

Consider a document with an activated branch containing text that has 
been edited, and with change tracking turned on. The user wants to 
dissolve the branch but retain the content. If the user does this with 
change tracking turned on, the entire branch gets crossed out and the 
full contents gets reproduced, which is a bit clunky to put it mildly. 
If the user turns off change tracking before dissolving the branch 
inset, the branch contents are retained but none of the change 
information survives. In particular, if the user has replaced one word 
with another, both words will survive in the latter case.

I tripped over this recently. My preferred behavior would be that (with 
tracking temporarily turned off) dissolving the inset would preserve the 
contents including tracking info. Am I off base here?

Thanks for any feedback,
Paul