How to replicate design documents only?

Question

So I want to replicate some changes I made to my design files from dev to production (a.k.a. I want to deploy something).

I\'m somehow confused since my research did no

Answer 1

You can use 'Filtered Replication' (See http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Replication#Filtered_Replication for details)

Basically, you'll supply a function that returns true for design documents like;

function(doc, req) {
  return "_design/" === doc._id.substr(0, 8)
}

and then add "filter":"ddocname/filtername" to your _replicate request body.