Diagrams
Bob, Alice and Carol are editing the same data item. When they try to send updates to the server, 8 RAYS cloud enforces the order that only changing last saved block state is actually allowed, so only one update is accepted and the rest get the merge request.
Here is the multimerge cycle sample; the "par" fragments here are special meaning: interactions inside the par gragment are executed in parallel, buth the sequence show their respectable order in time.
Note that the update data push from the server is send asynchronously and in the case the party got "merge required" answer the rendundant notification could be trashed by the server, this is a RC based issue, so each "merge required" and "update data" has identification data to avoid repeating updates/megres.