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From: Jens Alfke <jens@couchbase.com>
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Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 20:25:23 -0800
Subject: Re: overwrite document without revision?
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On Nov 8, 2013, at 7:07 PM, Ryan Mohr <ryan@kumu.io> wrote:

> Couldn't you do this with _bulk_docs and new_edits:false?

This would add a new revision, but it'd be a new roots in the revision tree=
 (i.e. a sibling not a child of the previous revision.) This would essentia=
lly create a conflict, and it would then be a toss-up which revision would =
be considered the current one. You don=92t want to do this.

=97Jens=