From b4539a9df90a70ef2824f1133367aa59451f2db1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Beckingham <paul@beckingham.net>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 00:34:00 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Task

- ::modify now assumes that it is not mandatory that there be a non-trivial set
  of changes.  This can be overridden.
---
 src/Task.cpp | 4 ++--
 src/Task.h   | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Task.cpp b/src/Task.cpp
index 54725a818..698b97bd6 100644
--- a/src/Task.cpp
+++ b/src/Task.cpp
@@ -1934,7 +1934,7 @@ float Task::urgency_blocking () const
 // well as reducing the object depdendencies of Task.
 //
 // It came from the Command base object, but doesn't really belong there either.
-void Task::modify (modType type)
+void Task::modify (modType type, bool mods_required /* = false */)
 {
   std::string text = "";
   Tree* tree = context.parser.tree ();
@@ -2186,7 +2186,7 @@ void Task::modify (modType type)
       break;
     }
   }
-  else if (modCount == 0)
+  else if (modCount == 0 && mods_required)
   {
     throw std::string (STRING_CMD_MODIFY_NEED_TEXT);
   }
diff --git a/src/Task.h b/src/Task.h
index 631e9459b..b115e5d7b 100644
--- a/src/Task.h
+++ b/src/Task.h
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ public:
   float urgency ();
 
   enum modType {modReplace, modPrepend, modAppend, modAnnotate};
-  void modify (modType);
+  void modify (modType, bool mods_required = false);
 
 private:
   int determineVersion (const std::string&);