[sportsaw]

I love this:

> In the Trellis project we experimented with a “time travel” interface, allowing a user to move back in time to see earlier states of a merged document, and automatically highlighting recently changed elements as changes are received from other users. The ability to traverse a potentially complex merged document history in a linear fashion helps to provide context and could become a universal tool for understanding collaboration.

[reasonabl_human]

I’ve always wondered why word processors don’t take this approach out of the box.... ‘resume_v2_2021_final_done.docx’ -> resume.docz using some wrappers around git seems pretty straight forward to me... and I’d be using it in a heartbeat

[CGamesPlay]

Word absolutely has this functionality, and it's about as complicated as git, which is why only people who use Word professionally use the functionality. It's just too complicated compared to using the file metaphor you're already familiar with.

[hippira]

Martin Kleppman has been writing quite a lot about auto merge data types.

[aklemm]

Google Wave?

[gmueckl]

Re-watch the initial presentation of Google Wave. This was a complex demo that tried to explain what Google Wave is step by step so that a pretty tech-savy audience could follow. And it took several hours to talk them through.

Now imagine teaching all of that to a less technology minded audience. It probably won't go well.