https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28720

--- Comment #1 from Brion Vibber <[email protected]> 2011-04-27 22:00:50 UTC 
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IIRC we originally added this for the following (verrrrrry common at least back
in '02-03) case:

* user hits 'edit', makes some changes
* user hits 'save' and is redirected to the view page
* user remembers he/she wants to add something else, hits 'back' to return to
the edit page
* edit page comes back in its previous state, with all the user's changes but
with the edit time marker that indicates you're still working from the previous
revision
* user makes some more changes
* user hits 'save'

If anything that was changed in the first edit is changed further in the
second, it would be unable to resolve the two edits with diff3, and kick out an
edit conflict warning.

By suppressing the edit conflict, we let the edit just go right through; since
you started with the same text we can consider that you've "merged" it
yourself, basically.

Now it may have changed somewhat in the meantime, but if we are to change how
this is handled to make other cases work, we still want to handle this common
case cleanly.

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