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Re:JSON Patch – a format for describing changes to a JSON do... by azinman2 on Thursday October 30, 2014 @12:49AM (#8531437)
You can know keys/paths but nothing else. Or you might have user-specific parts that won't be concurrently modified, but the base JSON doc might be modified by others. You'd have to have the latest version to do a text-based patch.

A text-based diff doesn't really gain much for what it loses in use cases.

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