Operational Transformation

From 0.3.2, we started supporting operational transformation. It makes concurrent editing safe and will not break up other users' operations. Additionally, now can show other clients' selections.

See more at https://operational-transformation.github.io/

And even more in this 2010 article series:

• https://drive.googleblog.com/2010/09/whats-different-about-new-google-docs_21.html
• https://drive.googleblog.com/2010/09/whats-different-about-new-google-docs_22.html
• https://drive.googleblog.com/2010/09/whats-different-about-new-google-docs.html

OT library

HedgeDoc uses a vendored version of OT.js. The source code lives under public/vendor/ot/. The HedgeDoc frontend uses a minified build public/vendor/ot/ot.min.js.

This build is generated by yarn run build:ot. This needs to be done after changes to the OT code.