Comment by hinkley

> Nobody

I count five or six people, including the author, in your 'nobody'.

If you watch any of the videos on CRDT, live editing (real-time) is every bit as much a corner case as the 'play by mail' scenario that code repositories do.

Asynchronous communications complicate Last Writer Wins algorithms, because the network is partitioned and time stamps don't have the same predictive value. Git is DVCS, where the "D" really means partition-resilience.