What is the CouchDB replication protocol? Is it like Git?

Question

Is there technical documentation describing how replication between two Couches works?

What is the basic overview of CouchDB replication? What are some noteworthy ch

Answer 1

The documentation for CouchDB v2.0.0 covers the replication algorithm much more extensively. They have diagrams, example intermediate responses, and example errors. They use the "MUST", "SHALL", etc. language of IETF RFCs.

The specifics for 2.0.0 (still unreleased as of January 2016) are a bit different from 1.x, but the basics are still as @natevw described.