Re: identical repository uuid

On 08.08.2012 21:45, Mark Phippard wrote:
> 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 :)

Ah, that explains it.

I guess I better use the repository root url then to distinguish between
repositories, not the uuid.

Thanks for the info.

Stefan

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