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COPY actually can be used to overwrite an existing target, when Destination set to the target id with its revision, as described here
The only clarification possibly needed is that it doesn't have to be a full URL in Destination when doc copied to the same db, it could be just in form of id?rev=1-abcd
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Ahh thanks! I think it's worth mentioning that in the description of the |
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The documentation suggests that COPY can be used to overwrite the target document, but there's no (obvious) way to actually do this. The
revparameter is used for the source, and there is no (documented/obvious) way to specify the rev for the target document to update. This leads me to believe it is mis-documented.If someone can explain that my assumption is incorrect, I'll instead update the docs to explain how to overwrite the target.