Cross-post to user@, why CouchDB is like Git. On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Paul Joseph Davis (JIRA) <[email protected]> wrote: > > [ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1252?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13087489#comment-13087489 > ] > > Paul Joseph Davis commented on COUCHDB-1252: > -------------------------------------------- > > @Jason, > > A couple weeks ago I would have agreed completely with you. So much in fact > that when someone reported a bug that _bulk_docs was storing the body of docs > submitted with _deleted: true set, it was immediately assumed to be a bug and > was promptly fixed. > > Until Damien said "That was on purpose so people can say why something was > deleted." > > In reality, the only "special" sauce for deleted docs is that they're not > considered conflicts. Other than that, you can still create a doc based on > the revision of a deleted doc. In fact you can rescue an edit history from > any known revision. But I digress.
Oh, so you are saying revisions are like Git? Cool. That makes it easy to understand. -- Iris Couch
