I think you're misunderstanding how couch/pouch works. It doesn't merge documents automatically - it deterministically picks a "winning" version of the data, b

I think you're misunderstanding how couch/pouch works. It doesn't merge documents automatically - it deterministically picks a "winning" version of the data, but the winner is completely arbitrary. You need to look at the conflicting versions to properly resolve conflicts, otherwise you're pretty much just rolling a dice and saying "yeah that version of the data will do whatever". There's no actual merging going on.