Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-couchdb-user-archive@locus.apache.org Received: (qmail 42179 invoked from network); 23 Jul 2008 15:24:20 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.2) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 23 Jul 2008 15:24:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 93449 invoked by uid 500); 23 Jul 2008 15:24:19 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-couchdb-user-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 93155 invoked by uid 500); 23 Jul 2008 15:24:19 -0000 Mailing-List: contact couchdb-user-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: couchdb-user@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list couchdb-user@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 93144 invoked by uid 99); 23 Jul 2008 15:24:19 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:24:19 -0700 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=10.0 tests=SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [89.16.172.240] (HELO bytesexual.org) (89.16.172.240) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:23:25 +0000 Received: from nslater by bytesexual.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KLgBx-0006iX-7S for couchdb-user@incubator.apache.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:23:49 +0100 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:23:49 +0100 From: Noah Slater To: couchdb-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Selectively keeping revisions around Message-ID: <20080723152349.GB25736@bytesexual.org> Mail-Followup-To: couchdb-user@incubator.apache.org References: <4E69EB4B-8914-4F9C-AD2F-D68649F91153@mubble.net> <6dfc41e10807221847k7bc1fb7ex6bceebd8aea9b826@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6dfc41e10807221847k7bc1fb7ex6bceebd8aea9b826@mail.gmail.com> X-Noah: Awesome User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 06:47:36PM -0700, Noah Tye wrote: > I was using revisions the same way Nick was. I know that the > revisions allow couchdb to only write to the db file, which makes it > more stable when it comes to concurrency and crashes, but also like > the idea of built-in revision control. If revisions are not meant to > be kept long-term, what are the use cases of couchdb revisions? Please see the following wiki page: http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/DocumentRevisions -- Noah Slater, http://people.apache.org/~nslater/