12. The method of claim 11 , wherein making the determination comprises requesting permission from an author of the second electronic document regarding whether the first electronic document should supersede the second electronic document in the distributed document control system in response to the first electronic document being saved.
11. A computer program product, tangibly embodied in a computer-readable storage medium, operable to cause one or more data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising: receiving, by a server from a client, an offline audit log containing information with respect to modifications made to content provided within a first electronic document that is retained locally at the client; making a comparison of data of the first electronic document with data of a second electronic document to determine whether the first electronic document should supersede the second electronic document in a distributed document control system, wherein the determination is based, at least in part, on the information contained within the offline audit log; and based on the determination, storing information in the distributed document control system that links the first electronic document with the second electronic document in a superior-subordinate relationship such that when a request to modify content provided within the second electronic document is received, the distributed document control system provides authorization to modify content provided within the first electronic document.