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Switching from Visual Editor to the 2010 Wikitext editor without any changes adds oldid to the query string
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Description

Because of the oldid in the URL, the post-edit notification that appears when the page is saved uses the postedit-confirmation-restored message, which is confusing, as one might imagine.

Event Timeline

Change 511878 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; owner: Esanders):
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Switch to wikitext: Don't set oldid if unmodified current ID

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/511878

Change 511878 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Switch to wikitext: Don't set oldid if unmodified current ID

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/511878

I was surprised that this has not been reported before. Turns out is has:

I guess the issue of wrong post-edit message still occurs when switching with changes?