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Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 17:19:05 +0200
From: Gregor Martynus <gregor@martynus.net>
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Subject: per-user databases & collaboration problem
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Hey everyone,

Imagine the following setup: 3 databases with 2 cont. replications:

"user/joe"
      ||
      || cont. replication (filtered)
      ||
      \/
"shared/123"
      ||
      || cont. replication
      ||
      \/
"user/sarah"

Joe (user/joe) is sharing a list of documents with an extra database (shared/123) and a filtered replication. Sarah
(user/sarah) subscribed to the Joe's shared documents with another cont. replication.

So far, so awesome. 

And now the Problem:

1. Sarah deletes Joe's documents and stops the replication.
2. Sarah changes her mind, she wants to have the documets back again
3. it doesn't work, because new revisions have been added for each deleted document, the shared documents do not get replicated because of the conflicts.

And here I am, and don't see  a "couch way" to solve this problem. Neither do I see a simple workaround.

Is there anything you can think of, to solve or work around this problem? Or is this kind of "sharing" between user databases broken by design?

-- 
Gregor


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