189360 - Bugzilla should give warning if no changes were submitted

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, defect)

Description

[Brant Gurganus]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030115
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030115

Bugzilla should give a warning if no changes are sumbitted on a bug.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a bug.
2. Click the Commit button.
Actual Results:  
The bug is committed with no warnings.

Expected Results:  
There should be some sort of warning and the bug should not be processed.

searched dupes using "no changes" and "blank changes"

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

You'll note that it doesn't send mail either, when they're no changes.

We'd have to do some testing to make sure it was in single-bug mode before
spitting an error.  The same processing code is used for single changes that's
used for change several bugs at once.  It's quite legal to make no changes to a
bug in change-several because what you're trying to change your entire list to
might already be what one of the bugs in the list is already set to, and you
don't want that to abort changing the rest of the bugs....

Comment 2

[Frédéric Buclin]

*** Bug 284464 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Frédéric Buclin]

(In reply to Brant Gurganus from comment #0)
> There should be some sort of warning and the bug should not be processed.

I don't see the rationale why throwing a warning would be useful. To know that there has been no changes, you have to processes the bug. And if no changes is found, then that's fine, do nothing.