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Brett Harrison

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Jan 27, 2015, 4:58:17 PM1/27/15

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In the sync gateway data feed, when the first number of the revision (ex. 1-1dec8991883482368060e6bf2f21a783) is 1 does that mean that this is the first version? So if I would like to trigger a process only when the first version is created I can look for the 1?

Jens Alfke

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Jan 27, 2015, 11:01:03 PM1/27/15

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On Jan 27, 2015, at 1:58 PM, Brett Harrison <brett.h...@musicmastermind.com> wrote:

In the sync gateway data feed, when the first number of the revision (ex. 1-1dec8991883482368060e6bf2f21a783) is 1 does that mean that this is the first version? So if I would like to trigger a process only when the first version is created I can look for the 1?

Yes, the number before the "-" is the generation count.

It isn't exactly the first version … it's possible (but unlikely) to have a conflict where two clients create a new document (with different contents) and push it to the server. You'd then have two revisions starting with "1-". Basically they'd be contending to be the first revision, and someone would have to merge them.