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I don't think the concern was necessarily about overhead, but about sensitive data. This is a problem in Git too: people make the mistake of reverting a commit

by Vinnl 2y ago

I don't think the concern was necessarily about overhead, but about sensitive data. This is a problem in Git too: people make the mistake of reverting a commit with sensitive values and think it's gone, but the history is still out there. Edit: or maybe that was the concern, but this other concern exists too :)

josephg 2y ago
If thats what you're worried about, use Yjs. Yjs doesn't store deleted characters in documents. Unless you actively make yjs snapshots, once a character in a yjs document is deleted, its gone.
- Vinnl 2y ago
  Huh! I wonder how that works if the deletion isn't synced with other clients yet.
  - toomim 2y ago
    It stores the deleted ranges, but not the chars of text that compose those ranges. So from a privacy perspective, you see the metadata of edit history (the DAG of character positions edited), but are blind to the text.
    - Vinnl 2y ago
      Ah! That makes sense, thanks - today I learned!