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Re:Faster CRDTs (2021) by josephg on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @03:21AM (#41376880)
> the "conflict free" decision is not necessarily the correct decision. It's merely a consistent one.

Yep. But there's no reason you couldn't build a system that supports both approaches - conflict-free when live pair programming, but conflicts are still generated when merging long lived branches. As I say, text CRDTs store all the data needed to do this. Just, nobody (as far as I know) has built that.

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