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MRs created from UI and API are different

Created by: klausbayrhammer

When creating a merge request with an empty description the behavior is different whether this is done via the gitlab UI or the REST-API.

If I create the MR via the UI and query https://gitlab.com/api/v3/projects/1/merge_request/1?private_token=xxxx the description is an empty string. If I create the MR via the REST-API and do not set the description param e.g.

 curl -X POST --data-urlencode "source_branch=$currentBranch" \
        --data-urlencode "target_branch=master" \
    --data-urlencode "title=$lastCommitsSubject" \
    --data-urlencode "private_token=$privateToken" \
    https://gitlab.com/api/v3/projects/$projectId/merge_requests

and query the MR with https://gitlab.com/api/v3/projects/1/merge_request/1?private_token=xxxx the description is null.

It would be nice if the behavior would be the same in both cases - since this also causes problems in jenkinsci/gitlab-plugin#179

Gitlab version: Gitlab 8.2.2-ee