ahayes commented on issue #1069: Want to view previous revision content of a document URL: https://github.com/apache/couchdb-fauxton/issues/1069#issuecomment-398542747 Every time I see the devs squash someone's desire to make use of revisions (and I have seen it a lot), I can't help but wonder why this couldn't be a killer feature of CouchDB. I understand that for performance reasons on huge databases, compaction can be a good thing. But I have many databases of 10s of thousands of records that have run for years without compaction and being able to see and use the revision history is great. In fact, I wish I could have older revisions replicate too. A replicating document oriented database able to serve dependable previous versions of documents using the same uuid to reference them would be great. Just pass a revision number or leave off for latest. When there is a fear of a bunch of people coming to depend on something, it is a pretty good sign that you have made something that has valuable uses you didn't imagine. Those uses could potentially be embraced instead of being dismissed/blocked. Anyway, I have to assume there is some big technical reason not to do it because otherwise, why not? If there is somewhere better to document the bigger discussion (or if it already exists) let me know and I will take it there. :)
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