From an email I wrote, explaining Buckybase's multi-device replication (which is put on ice until the basic server protocol has a reference implementation):
> ... users never have to merge if they don't want to: the
> system stores all variants of a document separately (at each device),
> and when I look at my laptop I can see:
> that this document has title "foo" on my laptop, but title "bar" on my
> server, and title "quux" on my cellphone. The GUI would show me all
> three values, but on each device the "local" value would displayed in
> a preferred style.
>
> Now, of course, this just defers the merging problem. As a next step,
> Simple Sharing Extensions could be added, so we can show the user only
> the real conflicts. I just hope that the real conflicts between a
> user's devices are rather small, and when the devices are synced e.g.
> daily, quite manageable.
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