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by BillinghamJ 991 days ago
I don't think there's truly any technical solution to "two users edited the same piece of text" tbh. You can try to be smart about it in various ways, but at the end of the day you're still going to hit situations where it's really not clear what the users' intent would be to handle two mutually-unaware edits on the same words
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CRDTs handle exactly that. There are times where things aren't exactly as the user intends but at least there's a way to determine a resolution.
I meant in terms of achieving the intended outcome for the end-users. Is it actually desirable to ensure there's a resolution when really they need to decide?