[Owncloud] Suggestions

[Cyrille Berger]

On Thursday 15 July 2010, iberlynx wrote:
> I stand corrected.
> 
> What about my suggestion of only locking locally within a couple of words
> of other user's editing? And about using a duchain-like structure aware
> system?
> And about block formatting changes that span over other users changes,
> giving those 3 choices?
It seems to me that you are trying to fit the tool to solve the problem, which 
is a wrong approach because it will leads you to add work around to work 
around. It would be better to analyse the problem and then find the best tool. 

However, there is a very simple way to test the idea of using git for 
collaborative editing of text and odf file. You can easily simulate an editing 
session, and conflict. In KWord (and I think OOWriter too) you can save a ODF 
document to a directory, that you can then put under revision control by git. 
If you use several KWord instance, saving to different repository, and then 
manually push between the different git repository, you should be able to test 
different editing scenarios and see what works, and what does not.

-- 
Cyrille Berger