add note about partial push updates & missing fields

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Yusef Napora
2019-05-01 16:04:21 -04:00
parent 749fc104e5
commit a1daad7073

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@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ The push variant works by opening a stream to each remote peer you want to updat
`/ipfs/id/push/1.0.0` as the protocol id string. When the remote peer accepts the stream,
the local peer will send an `Identify` message and close the stream.
Upon recieving the pushed `Identify` message, the remote peer should update their local
metadata repository with the information from the message. Note that missing fields
should be ignored, as peers may choose to send partial updates containing only the fields
whose values have changed.
## The Identify Message
```protobuf