Hi Garren. Went back to the instructions. :) (http://docs.couchdb.org/en/latest/replication/conflicts.html) Did a _bulk_docs update with _deleted:true in unwanted revs. Worked. Fauxton happy. I'm happy. Question: Why could Fauxton not do that??? Thanks.
On 23 February 2017 at 14:01, John Le Brasseur <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Garren. > > Thank you. > > I resolve conflicts by PUT ing an updated doc using the latest rev no. > which in any case is the 'Server-Selected Rev:'. > All is/seems to be fine. > > In Fauxton, however, when I click 'delete other conflicts' or 'select as > winner' nothing happens. A warning is given re deleting documents but no > revisions are deleted and the other alternatives in the dropdown are not > activated at all. > The couchdb.log shows no change in the situation either as far as I can > see. > > I am running v 2.0.0 on a single node on Windows 10. > > > I am using the following to PUT my new document: > > curl -X PUT 'http://usr:[email protected]:5984/db/id' -d @1234.json -H > "Content-Type: application/json" > > > Understandably I presume, I tried and failed to DELETE the conflicts using: > > curl -X DELETE 'http://usr:[email protected]:5984/db/id?_rev=other-rev' > > resulting in {"error":"conflict","reason":"Document update conflict."} > > I presume one cannot just delete conflicts. > > > Should I be using different port numbers? (v2.0.0) > > > > Everything seems to be behaving normally and all the commands I use are > the same as those I have used in v1.6.1. > > > > Maybe my Fauxton is slightly out of date. Can it be updated separately?? > > > > Thanks for your time. > > > On 23 February 2017 at 12:10, Garren Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi John, >> >> If you want the server selected winner then select delete other conflicts. >> If you want the other revision to win, then select it in the dropdown and >> click select as winner. >> >> Cheers >> Garren >> >> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 9:01 PM, John Le Brasseur < >> [email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > Hi. >> > I was resolving a conflict and happened to notice that Fauxton had a >> > '(1)Conflicts' tab showing. >> > Its very nice. >> > It shows the server selected winner and the alternative. >> > One can check the complete documents as well. >> > Very useful. >> > However, I wanted to make the 'other' revision my choice as the winner >> but >> > there seemed no way to highlight the current 'loser' and make it the >> > winner. >> > Is there a way of doing this? >> > >> > >> > John >> > >> > > > John > John
