NewMerger initiates the Merger, populating the []reflectTreefor future merging of pointer targetspanics if the donor is not a pointer.

NewProtoMerger returns an instance of a Merger using proto.Merge to merge Messages.

NewReducer initiates a merger and returns its Reducer.

Merger can SetFields to a receiver given values givenby a donor at instance initiation via NewMerger.

Reducer can RemoveFields of a given object given values givenby a reference at instance initiation via NewReducerthe reducer removes fields that are equal the reference.