https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166723
--- Comment #51 from Lars Jødal <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #50) > (In reply to Lars Jødal from comment #49) > > Reinstate: Alice is not happy about the change, but instead of just > > deciding, she uses Reinstate to produce a text that contains tracks of the > > proposed change. _If_ Accept is used on the text after Reinstate, the result > > will correspond to Reject (unchanged baseline). But the case is not closed, > > and Bob has the possibility of editing the change futher (Reject, Reinstate, > > rewriting...). > > Lars, I'm sorry, but - you're just repeating a mistaken claim from earlier > comments. Remember: "reinstate" accepts a change into the baseline, then > creates a tracked reversion of the original change, i.e. removes the change > from the proposed version of the document. Thus, instead of Bob having to > convince Alice to accept his proposal, a "reinstate" would put her in the > position of needing to convince Bob to accept her proposal. > > So, in this scenario, Alice would certainly _not_ use "reinstate". Eyal, I'm sorry too, but I disagree. Having once more checked the functionality of using Reinstate (e.g. on the test file attachment 201313), I maintain that this is a case where Reinstate could be very useful for Alice for the purpose I describe. As I see it: If Bob has made a deletion change, then Reinstate will add the deleted text (tracked). If Bob has made an insertion change, then Reinstate will delete the inserted change (tracked). In both cases, if Accept is used after Reinstate, the text will be back to Alice's original text. So by using Reinstate, Alice is presenting a text that she hopes will end up as Accept'ed (in which case the text will be beack to her original text), but she has not closed the mattter. We seem to be at the heart of the matter: Is my description/descriptions above relevant for using Reinstate (as I think), or is my description based on a misunderstanding of Reinstate (as Eyal thinks)? Eyal and I disagrees on the answer to that question. What do others think? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
