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11:34 <notbenh> Hello all, I'm new to riak and can't seem to find if riak has an 'update' idea 

11:34 <seancribbs> notbenh: creating a new datum is the same as updating an existing one. it's key-value 

11:34 <seancribbs> with the exception that you need to send the vclock when you update 
(most clients do this for you) 

11:35 <notbenh> seancribbs: ok so if I need to update a part of a doc I need to do the merge 
and then just reload the merged doc 

11:35 <seancribbs> you'll need to write back the whole thing 

11:36 <notbenh> ie if current store is $key => {title => $title, body => $body} and I want to 
update title to $new_title  I would just store $key => {title => $new_title, body => $body} 

11:36 <notbenh> thats simple enough 

11:36 <notbenh> thanks 

11:36 <seancribbs> right 

11:37 <notbenh> seancribbs: perfect thanks 

11:38 <notbenh> seancribbs: does riak have a history (thinking git) such that I could see 
that a doc was changed from $title to $new_title or is that something that I should manage 
if I needed that 

11:38 <notbenh> I don't yet but it's just something I though of 

11:38 <seancribbs> you'll need to do that yourself, i.e. keep a list of changes 

11:39 <notbenh> simple enough 

11:39 <notbenh> thanks again 

11:40 <seancribbs> you can do cool things with links to implement something like that. 
it's in erlang but our wriaki demo app does that **( wriaki ---> http://github.com/basho/wriaki)**