Bug or feature? [Change Tracking]

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 5/8/20 1:54 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> 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?

I would also think that is what should happen. A whole lot has been done
in master on change tracking by Jürgen, though, so this may be be fixed.

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