Wrong order of rendered elements when using ng-repeat, ng-if, and a directive

[thatkookooguy]

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BUG

What is the current behavior?
Order of rendered DOM is messed-up.

Currently, I get:

1
2
3
Printed twice, but should not
Printed twice, but should not
Printed twice, but should not

If the current behavior is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce and if possible a minimal demo of the problem via https://plnkr.co or similar (template: http://plnkr.co/edit/tpl:yBpEi4).
http://plnkr.co/edit/0KpEwgW8P2p00UfTYH6e?p=preview

What is the expected behavior?
The expected output should be:

1
Printed twice, but should not
2
Printed twice, but should not
3
Printed twice, but should not

What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior?
This behaviour is confusing and isn't expected

Which versions of Angular, and which browser / OS are affected by this issue? Did this work in previous versions of Angular? Please also test with the latest stable and snapshot (https://code.angularjs.org/snapshot/) versions.
tried this on angular 1.4.7 up to 1.5.0. happens on all of them

Other information (e.g. stacktraces, related issues, suggestions how to fix)
This is probably related to #6006 .

[lgalfaso]

This is another variation of the fact that directives that do transclude: element are not supported in the top-level element of a templateURL of directives that do replace: true. I would like to tell you that there is an easy solution, but fixing this would involve an overhaul on how $compile works, and I do not see this happening soon.

[jeremypele]

I had the same issue. Needed to move the ng-if condition on the directive element itself to 'fix' it

[wesleycho]

I thought replace: true was deprecated? This issue can probably be closed given that it is not likely to be fixed due to the complexity of issues involving its usage, and there being a more than adequate workaround by just not using it & structuring HTML appropriately.

[gkalpak]

👍 We should document this as a known issue in the guide or in $compile API docs and close this issue.