nickva commented on issue #5422:
URL: https://github.com/apache/couchdb/issues/5422#issuecomment-2655559239

   Thank you for your patience and sorry for the delay in responding
   
   > Is there any way to avoid an attachment getting sent over again during 
replication even though it already exists in both databases?
   
   I think you're absolutely correct, we should be able to avoid resending 
already existing attachments. We even have a mechanism for it: `_revs_diff` on 
the target returns a `possible_ancestors` revision list. Then we pass that list 
in `atts_since` parameter to `_bulk_get` and/or plain GET with 
`open_revs=[RevsList...]&atts_since=[AttsSinceRevList...]`
   
   But, somehow it doesn't work or stopped working at some point. The last 
major change in that area was the _bulk_get usage and the heuristic to skip 
calling `_revs_diff` if the target seems to be empty, so I suspect it's 
something I did that messed it up and I probably errored on the side of caution 
and opted to always fetch the attachments.
   
   Let's keep the issue open, we should investigate this a bit more.


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