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If you want local-first, conflict resolution is something you're unlikely to be able to avoid. The other option is to say "whoops" and arbitrarily throw away a change when there is a conflict due to a spotty wifi or some such.

Fortunately, a lot of what chafes with git are UX issues more than anything else. Its abstractions are leaky, and its default settings are outright bad. It's very much a tool built by and for kernel developers with all that entails.

The principle itself has a lot of redeemable qualities, and could be applied to other similar syncing problems without most of the sharp edges that come with the particular implementation seen in git.





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