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Here is the history of a question I tried to edit.

I first clicked edit on revision 4. Then I added the tag because it was correct. I then saved it.

What happened then? My edit... didn't do anything at all!

https://i.sstatic.net/zZlOt.png

What did I break? What happened?

EDIT

It appears I must zoom out a bit to clear some confusion:

https://i.sstatic.net/sYA78.png

To summarize: my intent was to roll back the change made to the body text by the suggested edit while preserving the change made to the tags. While the tag change was kept, the body changes were not rolled back!

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    Did you make the same changes as revision 5? If so, and given the timing, it's a simple edit clash.
    – Bart
    Commented Apr 6, 2013 at 1:28
  • Yes, adding a tag is a radical change. /jokingSarcasm
    – ɥʇǝS
    Commented Apr 6, 2013 at 1:29
  • @Seth No, he changed other stuff too
    – Doorknob
    Commented Apr 6, 2013 at 1:31
  • @Bart Please see updated post
    – Doorknob
    Commented Apr 6, 2013 at 1:32
  • Don't be so radical man
    – Brian Webster
    Commented Apr 6, 2013 at 4:34
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    FWIW: I reproduced this. I'll try to elaborate on why it happens at some point, but for now the evidence is in the revision history here.
    – Shog9 Mod
    Commented Apr 7, 2013 at 6:01
  • @David How does something become un-reproduced?
    – Doorknob
    Commented Aug 17, 2013 at 0:01
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    @Doorknob we're not using status-reproduced any more, since it doesn't mean anything has actually been resolved. Comments capture the "We've reproduced this" adequately enough.
    – David Fullerton
    Commented Aug 17, 2013 at 2:50
  • @DavidFullerton looks like the dev team is not familiar with the decision to not use the status-reproduced tag anymore. Personally I'm against that decision but it's your call. Anyway, think you better nuke that tag or blacklist it so the devs won't get confused.
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Jan 30, 2014 at 12:44
  • @Shog9 Something just like this happened on IPS today.
    – NVZ
    Commented Aug 13, 2017 at 15:37

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You've come across what I'd call rather strange behavior, but I'm not certain that it's necessarily a bug. I'm calling it Schrödinger's Revision ™

It appears that you were trying to roll back to a previous body revision while preserving tag changes. However, since all you changed was the tags, that's the only post history record created.

Since it was identical to the current set of tags, nothing shows up in the revision history. Hence, it was a revision, but wasn't a revision, and seemingly isn't a revision yet it is. But hey, it wasn't caching!

We're looking at it. This is a rather strange edge case, we are examining it to see if changes need to be made, if only to be made more obvious.

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