<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Joseph Bonneau <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jbonneau@gmail.com" target="_blank">jbonneau@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div> We could design a chat protocol where every participant has a Lamport clock and these are committed to in each message as an alternative to the "git commit history" formulation considered above.</div>
</div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>I was actually thinking about proposing exactly this when I saw Moxie's original description, but I began to worry about the details, like:</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">- If someone joins a conversation later, who do they inherit their vector clocks from? Someone who invited them to the conversation?</div><div class="gmail_extra">
- What about siblings? (same problem as git)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div>- Could this actually result in confusing/deceptive output?</div><div><br></div>-- <br>Tony Arcieri<br>
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