Kinda sorta. Except for how they're different.

On Aug 19, 2011, at 3:01 AM, Jason Smith wrote:

> 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:
>> 
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>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1252?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13087489#comment-13087489
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>> Paul Joseph Davis commented on COUCHDB-1252:
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>> 
>> @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

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