On Aug 21, 2011, at 10:04 PM, Ryan Ramage wrote:

A summary from the link....I have a master couchapp that clients pull
replicate from. A refactoring of the couchapp may mess up the rev number for
the main design doc. So i need a way to go past the rev number to force an
update to the clients. Is there a better way?

The revision IDs aren’t “numbers” (again, just like Git). They do happen to 
have incrementing digits at the start, before the hashcode, but I’m told that’s 
just a detail of the implementation and shouldn’t be relied on. In the general 
case there isn’t any way to put an ordering on revisions, since different peers 
can be creating them out of contact with each other and then merging, so the 
replication algorithm doesn’t pay any attention to those digits at the 
beginning.

—Jens

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