JSON Merge Patch – a simpler format for describing changes to a JSON document (tools.ietf.org)

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In a nutshell, to update a JSON document you:

  * include properties with updated values
  * leave out properties that should be unchanged
  * set properties null to remove them

It's the approach github and others have taken.