Autosave immediately before a full save inserts a revision with no changes

[johnbillion]

Steps to reproduce:

• Publish a post.
• Make a change to the post content in the editor but do not save it.
• Wait for an autosave to kick in.
• Save the post.

Visit the Revisions screen for the post and you'll see that the latest revision shows no changes. Clicking Previous takes you to the autosave and shows the change that ought to be present in the most recent revision.

[adamsilverstein]

As I follow it, this actually reflects the state of things as you created them:

After your sequence there would be three revisions:

1. the original published post version
2. the autosave with the changes
3. the newly published version no changes here - changes were saved in the autosave

@johnbillion What were you expecting to see here? that the autosave would not show up in the revisions at all?

[johnbillion]

With a published piece of content, an autosave is not reflected in the live post content.

The third item in your list above is a revision where nothing has been revised. IMO it either shouldn't be stored, or it should replace the autosave immediately before it.

PS this happens quite frequently on the make.w.org sites which is where I first noticed it.

[adamsilverstein]

The third item in your list above is a revision where nothing has been revised. IMO it either shouldn't be stored, or it should replace the autosave immediately before it.

@johnbillion - Maybe it makes sense to delete the autosave when a regular save completes?

[adamsilverstein]

@johnbillion is this issue still valid/reproducible with GB/WP5.3?