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Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #4102, comment 69

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1	1	After reviewing the history of this ticket, it seems what started as a simple opt-in feature request of adding a field white-list to the Model's save function morphed into a complicated dirty flag approach that obviously has many edge cases and performance implications given that this ticket has been open for 5 years now. Just compare the very first proposed patch to the latest to see what I mean.
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3		Unfortunately, this seemed to have happened without much discussion about the relative merits of each approach. I would prefer the Django ORM leave it to me to decide which fields I would like to update rather than relying on it to correctly infer which fields I would like updated. Clearly some people differently and favor the dirty flag approach for a more hands-off approach. As such, I propose adding support for both methods so that developers can choose the right approach for their use case.
	3	Unfortunately, this seemed to have happened without much discussion about the relative merits of each approach. I would prefer the Django ORM leave it to me to decide which fields I would like to update rather than relying on it to correctly infer which fields I would like updated. Clearly some people feel differently and favor the dirty flag approach for a more hands-off approach. As such, I propose adding support for both methods so that developers can choose the right approach for their use case.