Is merging really merging or is it over-writting?

  • I did this:
    duplicate original post (A), edit new post (Dup A) and save as draft.

    duplicate original post (A) again, edit new post (Dup A) [confusing it gets the same same as when I did the first dupe].

    I merged the second one to the original. It overwrote the original.

    I merged the first one to the original. it overwrote the original and lost the changes I’d made in the second dupe.

    Friendly suggestions:
    1) Make this behavior more clear.
    2) When merging force the user to view a diff before committing that merge.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/duplicate-and-merge-posts/

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  • Juan

    (@cybnet)

    I’ve read your post some weeks ago. Today I understand what you mean.

    I’ve used the plugin first time in my live website. I display post publication date and last modification date. My surpise was that 2 years old post (duplicated, edited and merged back) has now “today” as publication and last modification dates.

    It is not exactly what you described but another case of overriding, not merging.

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