Gutenberg saves a huge number of revisions

[mhsabbagh]

Issue Overview

When writing a new post using Gutenberg, the editor seems to be saving a revision each second, which causes a huge number of revisions to be stored for just one post. E.g: Yesterday I wrote a post of 700 words using Gutenberg, the editor created 225 revisions for that post alone.

This is huge, and causes the database usage to rise and could cause some bandwidth/storage issues on limited environments.

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

1. Go to the new post page.
2. Start writing some words, adding some images or modifying blocks continuously.
3. After a minute or two of continues writing and editing, check the revisions number.

Expected Behavior

Gutenberg should have created a way less number of revisions, instead of doing it almost every second.

Current Behavior

Gutenberg seems to create a revision each second, each revision includes a difference of the new words that you wrote before you stop for a split second while writing.

Also, Gutenberg seems to take a revision each new block is created/modified/deleted instantly.

Screenshots / Video

Todos

• Tests
• Documentation

[ocean90]

Thanks for the report. This is being tracked at #3656.