Closed cclauson closed 1 year ago
Hi @cclauson, thanks for trying Automerge. I'm afraid the scenario you describe is not treated as a conflict by Automerge. That's because every Automerge object is independent, and when you delete an object from a list of objects, you're actually only deleting a reference to the nested object.
We did previously consider alternatives whereby an update inside a deleted object causes that object to become un-deleted again. However, this can lead to some quite strange situations, as illustrated in figure 6 of this paper. For Automerge we decided to go a different path and not try to merge updates to different objects.
Please let me know if you have any further questions.
Closing this issue as it has been quiet for a long time; please re-open if there is still something to do here.
Hi,
I'm new to automerge and am experimenting with it. Based on trying the examples on the doc page, concurrent changes to the value of a map key will result in conflicts that can be queried via Automerge.getConflicts() and resolved.
Consider this conflict scenario--a list of maps exists. One site edits a value in one of the maps, while another site deletes that map. Is there any way to query and discover this conflict?
Based on experimenting with this--it looks like the element is deleted, but I'm unclear on whether a parameter can be passed to Automerge.getConflicts() to detect and/or resolve this.
Thanks so much for any clarification here :)