you cannot. revisions are only for concurrency control to handle conflicts when replicating. If you need a document versioning you need to build that by yourself.
On 18.12.2010, at 10:45, Svein Helge Grinden wrote: > How can I set up CouchDB to keep the last 10 revisions of each document after > compaction? > > > On 18. des. 2010, at 09:33, Sebastian Cohnen <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> just to clear things up: Setting the revision limit doesn't mean that >> CouchDB will keep around 10 revisions of each document. If there is no >> conflict, only the current version is kept around after compaction. >> >> On 18.12.2010, at 04:30, Paul Davis wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Svein Helge Grinden >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> I wonder if it's possible to set the revision limit per-document and not >>>> just for the whole database? >>>> >>>> I would like to keep lets say 10 revisions for each document. After compact >>>> database is ran I would still want to have up to 10 revision of each >>>> document. >>>> Far as I have figured out, I can only set the total number of revisions for >>>> the hole database. >>>> >>> >>> The revs_limit is per document already. There is no database wide >>> revision limit. >>> >>> HTH, >>> Paul Davis >>
