Quote: either allow synchronization to back out a user's changes or propagate just the non-conflicting changes; the later is better for unsupervised reconciliations

Quotation Skeleton

During synchronization, it is possible that some of … we can weaken users' expectations of the persistence … out changes that the user has made to … Alternatively, we can keep persistence and instead give … non-conflicting change[s] … In Harmony, we have chosen to favor persistence …   Google-1   Google-2

Copyright clearance needed for quotation.

Related Topics

Topic: updating information in a distributed system (50 items)
Topic: optimistic update for concurrency control (35 items)