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feat(Documentation): add a section on consistent reads #585

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@philips philips commented Feb 20, 2014

We have waited too long to document consistent=true. Document it!

### Read Consistency

Followers in a cluster can be behind the leader in their copy of the keyspace.
If your application wants or needs the most up to date version of a key it should ensure it reads from the current leader.
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"If your application wants or needs the most up-to-date¹ version of a key then² it should ensure that it reads from the current leader."

¹ http://jeffmilner.com/index.php/2005/11/07/up-to-date-vs-up-to-date/comment-page-1/
² Or make this a comma.

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heh, I love that url. fixed.

We have waited too long to document `consistent=true`. Document it!
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philips commented Feb 21, 2014

Thanks for the detailed review @benbjohnson. I updated the commit with all of the changes. I will merge it now.

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feat(Documentation): add a section on consistent reads
@philips philips merged commit 7289224 into etcd-io:master Feb 21, 2014
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