Initializing resources with a Commit

[joepio]

Currently, Commits have some serious ambiguity. They do not specify if they are editing a resource, or if they are creating a new one. This can lead to accidental overwrites of existing data. How to solve this?

Require previous commit ID / signature in each edit commit

• Makes commits more easily browseable
• It makes commits a blockchain, basically. That's a cool word!
• Means that the client has to find this commit. That means adding logic to the client, which now has to query some endpoint of a server to find the latest commit for a resource. Which takes precious cycles.

Require 'init' boolean in initialization commits

• Very lightweight to implement