Re: identical repository uuid

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Just stumbled upon something that shouldn't happen:
>
> both neon and serf repositories have the very same repository uuid:
> 61a7d7f5-40b7-0310-9c16-bb0ea8cb1845
>
> you can check yourself with
> svn info http://serf.googlecode.com/svn
> and
> svn info http://svn.webdav.org/repos/projects
>
>
> Since the uuids are created by Subversion, maybe there's not enough
> randomness in the code? Or is this just a freaky coincidence?
>
> Or do all DAV libraries get the same uuid? :)

Looks like Serf lived here once:

http://svn.webdav.org/repos/projects/serf/trunk/

I am guessing that the Googlecode repository was created from a dump
of the project from this repository and they did not use --ignore-uuid
when they loaded the dump file?

Or something like that :)

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/