Gee, how can automatic merge without conflict identification break? In all the ways that automatic merge <i>with</i> conflicts, with even more opportunities.<p>It&#x27;s trivial for two editors to make edits to a sentence which are grammatical in isolation, but the system will merge them such that there is a problem.<p>Original sentence: &quot;There were two people present: Bob and Alice&quot;.<p>Parallel edit 1: &quot;There were three people present: Bob, Alice and Eve.&quot;<p>Parallel edit 2: &quot;There were three people present: Carlos, Bob and Alice.&quot;<p>Seamlessly integrated, &quot;self-healed&quot;, &quot;robust&quot; result: &quot;There were three people present: Carlos, Bob, Alice and Eve&quot;.