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The following page has been changed by mdornseif: http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/HTTP_Document_API The comment on the change is: Tried to better point out the nature of revisions ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See ["DocumentRevisions"] for additional notes on revisions. - The above example gets the current revision. You can get a specific revision by using the following syntax: + The above example gets the current revision. You may be able to get a specific revision by using the following syntax: {{{ GET /somedatabase/some_doc_id?rev=946B7D1C HTTP/1.0 @@ -206, +206 @@ GET /somedatabase/some_doc_id?revs=true HTTP/1.0 }}} - This returns the current revision of the document, but with an additional field, ''_revs'', the value being a list of the available revision IDs. Note though that not every of those revisions of the document is necessarily still stored on disk. For example, the content of an old revision may get removed by compacting the database, or it may only exist in a different database if it was replicated. + This returns the current revision of the document, but with an additional field, ''_revs'', the value being a list of the available revision IDs. ''Note though that not every of those revisions of the document is necessarily still available.'' For example, the content of an old revision get removed by compacting the database, or it may only exist in a different database if it was replicated. To get more detailed information about the available document revisions, use the ''revs_info'' parameter instead. In this case, the JSON result will contain a ''_revs_info'' property, which is an array of objects, for example:
