Re: too many 'changed' entries

Yngve Svendsen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.bug-tracking.gnats.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At 10:15 27.03.2003 -0800, Mel Hatzis wrote:
>I noticed this too. In my case, I setup a field as 'required' and
>it wasn't working via gnatsweb, because gnatsweb was inserting a
>newline (thereby making the field look like it had a value).
>
>I fixed it by changing the 'fix_multiline_val' sub, as follows:

(snip)

>This basically prevents whitespace only values from being entered
>as the (multiline) field value which I consider to be a good fix.
>
>This should help you in the case where a newly created PR is edited
>for the first time - since this is when gnatsweb will add the
>newline, thereby changing the field and adding a change log to the
>audit trail.

Nice catch. I have committed the fix. Of course, Gnatsweb's somewhat 
reckless sprinkling of newlines should itself be cleaned up, but I dare not 
do it for 4.0 after seeing what removing one apparently extraneous newline 
did to attachment handling.

- Yngve
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