Error Creating Review: At least one revision being added must be a textual change

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*Except Fisheye and Crucible

Symptoms

Error when attempting to create a review:

1 java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - At least one revision being added must be a textual change

Cause

Crucible normally rejects changes which do not have line count values from reviews.

Workaround

Set the system property crucible.detect.metadata.revision.changes to false. The following page describes the ways in which you can set the system properties:

JVM system properties

Updated on April 8, 2025

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