Kubernetes supports both JSON patch and merge patch, and it has been a continuous source of amazement to me (in the “that’s a bloody giant hole in the ground” s

Kubernetes supports both JSON patch and merge patch, and it has been a continuous source of amazement to me (in the “that’s a bloody giant hole in the ground” sense) of how hard actually calculating, representing, and developing durable intuition about finding differences between and merging JSON-like trees (empty lists, null vs empty, representing insertion vs deletion, lists with primary keyed members, list uniqueness, field ordering, duplicate fields, number equivalence, etc). Add in defending against pathologically malformed patches - several vulnerabilities were discovered in the golang patch libraries Kube used - and one starts to develop a twitch whenever it is mentioned…