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Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 02:38:01 +0400
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Subject: Re: accessing previous document revisions within a view
From: Alexander Shorin <kxepal@gmail.com>
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Hi Tim,

CouchDB documents revisions aren't for versioning things[1]. To access
to previous document revision within view you need to store previous
revisions inlined within document and emit them in map function. Note,
that this solution promises that document size will rapidly grow over
time - you'll need to limit stored inlined revisions somehow.

[1] http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Document_revisions

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On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 2:29 AM, Tim Tisdall <tisdall@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to access a previous revision of a document from within
> a view?  I'd like to output something in a view based on the
> difference between the revisions of the documents.
>
> -Tim