Probably what is abstruse here is the jargon "emitting history events", is 
it something as a newbie must understand in order to use Session properly? 
As a beginner should I know this before studying Session section? I'd 
appreciate some insight from pros. Thanks.

On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 5:57:59 PM UTC-7, Bao Niu wrote:
>
> In the documentation for *session.merge()* method, there is a section on 
> the mechanism of reconciling if the *load=true* is set:
>
>> If the load=True flag is left at its default, this copy process emits 
>> events and will load the target object’s unloaded collections for each 
>> attribute present on the source object, so that the incoming state can be 
>> reconciled against what’s present in the database. If load is passed as 
>> False, the incoming data is “stamped” directly without producing any 
>> history.
>>
>  
> I don't quite understand the relationship between "stamped" and without 
> "stamped". The author is apparently trying to contrast something important 
> here, but I just couldn't imagine what a stamp could be here. Could someone 
> explain this process in a newbie-friendlier way please? Thanks.
>

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