Conflicts are caused when two people edit the same text or verse. The conflict is because you don’t know which text should take precedence. This can be a disaster if it fits in long enough. When you have different user names, paratext can prevent the different
users from editing the same text because you assign different book, or even different chapter, editing privileges to different users. If the team were totally consistent in never working in the same books and always doing send receive before and after working,
you might be able to prevent most conflicts, but there are times, like when correcting spelling or biblical terms or even basic checking errors when it is very hard to resist the temptation to fix all the errors and accidents do happen.
Since you are doubting whether more conflicts will actually occur (and yes they really should be occurring more), it occurs to me that paratext might not always be recognizing the duplicate editing of the same text as a conflict if it’s done with the same user
name. You should deliberately test that because if a conflict wasn’t flagged in that situation, you could be experiencing users overwriting each other’s edits without knowing it and that would be quite a problem. You could only find hints of that by studying
the history.
As for correcting conflicts that do get flagged, the difficulty in correcting them will lie in the fact that you can’t easily differentiate between the actions of two people and so it can be hard to decide which choice should take precedence.
Blessings Shegnada
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