Last modified: 2013-12-07 21:02:34 UTC
If you enter just a space as summary for an edit this is handled inconsistently in different places: In the user contributions and the page history the summary doesn't show up, there are no parentheses as for non-empty summaries. This is the behavior which is correct in my eyes. In the watchlist and the recent changes the whitespace-summary is shown: There are parentheses with a space between them, which looks a bit ugly. At least the summary should be treated the same in every place.
Lowering priority on high priority bugs that have a low severity
With Gerrit change #36359 more summaries are trimmed before saving to database, that means summaries with spaces will roll out of the recentchanges table and the differences are not seen anymore. Feel free to mark as fixed, if you think, that is enough.
Michael: Is the patch mentioned in comment 2 sufficient?
I used a space as summary to supress auto-summaries and warnings about missing summaries. If I understand the patch correctly, it removes this behavior, i.e. a space as summary will cause an autosummary/warning. If I'm the only one who used this, then it's ok for me, but if there are other users who used a space as summary for this, trimming the summary before everything else isn't the best way to do it.
Works for me, since Gerrit change #49483 the whitespace is stripped only on save, not on preview/show changes, and that is after forceeditsummary.
(In reply to comment #3) > Michael: Is the patch mentioned in comment 2 sufficient? Yes, closing as fixed.
