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by rayiner 3291 days ago
It doesn't scale. E.g. a common operation in a law firm is to send a draft of a Word document,[1] to several people for revisions and comments. You get back several redlines against a common version that some junior associate then has to integrate manually.

[1] It has to be a word document for integration with tooling that does stuff like generating tables of authorities and whatnot.

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the built-in 3-way merge tool will do that... just set it up to be called from your favourite VCS.