From 427ec6d6a82b0ff960157e418ab6be4e6011b66d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Amaury Chamayou <amchamay@microsoft.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2023 15:52:09 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add comment about contains_new_view

---
 src/consensus/aft/raft_types.h | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/consensus/aft/raft_types.h b/src/consensus/aft/raft_types.h
index 8284981611fb..2c4c3e3596d6 100644
--- a/src/consensus/aft/raft_types.h
+++ b/src/consensus/aft/raft_types.h
@@ -130,6 +130,8 @@ namespace aft
     // from prev_term, then the first entry is the first transaction in that new
     // term
     Term term_of_idx;
+    // This is unused by the current implementation, but is kept to preserve
+    // wire compatibility with previous versions of the code.
     bool contains_new_view;
   };
   DECLARE_JSON_TYPE_WITH_2BASES(