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Comments on Renaming a tag to an existing one fails silently

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Renaming a tag to an existing one fails silently

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If I try to rename a tag to an existing one it silently fails. Example: trying to rename data-archiving to archiving fails with console error only:

application-f4dc10c11dc65439a992f7c98cb554bfbc419e710e5a5267f5048e7cb1f8794f.js:37 Failed to rename tag, somehow

Not allowing duplicate tags is OK, but it would be nice to also display a meaningful error message for the end-user.

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You can merge tags too
ArtOfCode‭ wrote over 2 years ago

Doesn't make this less of a bug, but remember that you can also merge tags if they have the same meaning. Merging data-archiving into archiving would seem to make sense here.

Alexei‭ wrote over 2 years ago

Yes, I have already performed several tag-merges so far and this is one of those cases. However, it happened once that I renamed a tag and it did not work. If I remember correctly, several months ago it was actually possible to rename a tag to an existing name, thus getting duplicate tag names.