# Merged edits will clobber the first "edit reason"
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/merged-edits-will-clobber-the-first-edit-reason/123475
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [July 19, 2019, 10:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/merged-edits-will-clobber-the-first-edit-reason/123475 "2019-07-19T22:11:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2019, 10:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/merged-edits-will-clobber-the-first-edit-reason/123475/1 "2019-07-19T22:11:24Z")
If a user edits a post and includes an Edit Reason then (within the edit window) makes another edit without entering a reason, the first Edit Reason will be clobbered.
Edit Reasons should probably concatenate instead.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2019, 1:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/merged-edits-will-clobber-the-first-edit-reason/123475/2 "2019-11-12T01:24:19Z")
@Martin_Brennan seems like an easy fix.
I would not go so far as to concatenate here, instead if a reason is specified then a revision needs to be forced somehow.
- If this is the first edit… you got to add a revision so you can keep the text of the edit reason somewhere.
- If it is a subsequent edit… you can still handle grace period properly as long as you don’t change the reason.
- Once you change the reason you force a new edit.
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### Author:  [@martin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/martin)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2019, 3:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/merged-edits-will-clobber-the-first-edit-reason/123475/5 "2019-11-18T03:18:35Z")
A fix for this has now been merged! 🔨
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2019, 3:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/merged-edits-will-clobber-the-first-edit-reason/123475/6 "2019-11-18T03:35:22Z")