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Syntax-only manual merges are just time consuming waste of human time.

I'm a small PR-er so 99% of the time it is Syntax. If if it is semnatic at all often then try trunk based development.



The CRDT isn't syntax-aware either


If it is doing what I think CRDT does, and tracking where the user clicked and what they typed, it sort of carries a bit more syntax info. It has a chance to get it right. And often since it does something it turns a figure this shit out with review this.


Much better is AST merging (which itself is also more amenable to crdts). But doing this at the text level is doing to be a failed experiment - the value isn’t there.




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