--CRM-16189, added comment

diff --git a/CRM/Contribute/BAO/Contribution.php b/CRM/Contribute/BAO/Contribution.php
index 28ad9988b94aa3f1b877d30e3dc512c859bf54b5..0928a8455a0bde6775be643d6b41699736358b73 100644 (file)
--- a/CRM/Contribute/BAO/Contribution.php
+++ b/CRM/Contribute/BAO/Contribution.php
@@ -5031,6 +5031,11 @@ LIMIT 1;";
   /**
    * Get values of CiviContribute Settings
    * and check if its enabled or not.
+   * Note: The CiviContribute settings are stored as single entry in civicrm_setting
+   * in serialized form. Usually this should be stored as flat settings for each form fields
+   * as per CiviCRM standards. Since this would take more effort to change the current behaviour of CiviContribute
+   * settings we will live with an inconsistency because it's too hard to change for now.
+   * https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/8562#issuecomment-227874245
    *
    *
    * @param string $name