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Posted to user@couchdb.apache.org by Patrick Aljord <pa...@gmail.com> on 2008/02/23 00:56:05 UTC

Re: Extracting information for documents in CouchDB with XPath

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 7:29 PM, kerr <ke...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  On Feb 22, 6:07 pm, Damien Katz <da...@gmail.com> wrote:
>  > not a reliable distributed revision
>  > control mechanism, because CouchDB only replicates the most recent
>  > revisions (main doc and conflicts), but not previous revisions of
>  > those documents.
>
>  That would be the "technical reason why" I was looking for.  Thanks
>  Damien. ;)

that and the fact that "the amount of data incrementally replicated
around can almost [be as] small as the actual diff patches" :D