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Is that really inherent to the data, or a case of useful merge plug-ins just not having been written yet for the proprietary file formats of big closed source apps?

Source code doesn't ~really merge all that well either; there's just been a big community of software developers collaboratively fixing up their tools for collaboration.

Of course we have it easy cause the tools we're using are ~made of the same stuff we work with daily. No amount of photoshop filter experience will enable you to write a program that intelligently merges two photoshop files.




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