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		adgasf on Feb 27, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Oracle Reveals Funding of Dark Money Group Fightin... Google Docs solves the 95% case of version-control simply by bringing everyone to the head of master at all times.

lrem on Feb 27, 2020 [–]

And further 3% by having a linear revision history. With some luck it will even render diffs correctly.

Disclaimer: I work at Google and hate docs. But acknowledge the thing works ok for its intended user.

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