This issue is outside of my problem domain because:
Oh no... you opened the can of worms, you don't get off that easily ;-)
1. You probably can't solve this for common objects like DTML methods because there's not enough meta-info in the body to determine how diffs should be applied.
Well, doing diff-style things will never work for anythign except simple text objects. The standard (?!) way to handle this is to store two copies of the object and then manaualy sort it out. It's certainly the safest approach...
2. For my project, synchronization of objects is always specified in one- direction for a given folder or meta-type
This is an interesting, and I'm sure common, variation on the problem. I'm not sure how Notes handles this but wouldn't it be amazing if Zoep could do it properly... ;-) Chris