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-Since uuid.log, trust.log and remote.log are union merged, it's possible
-for any given item in them to have multiple values after a merge.
-This would happen, for example, if the value was changed in different ways
-in two repos which were then merged. git-annex will use an arbitrary
-one of the multiple values.
-
-A workaround if this should happen to you is to use `git annex describe`
-or other commands to re-set the value you want. The process of setting
-the value will remove the multiple lines.
-
-To fix this the file format needs to be changed to include a timestamp
-as is done with the other log files, then git-annex can consistently
-pick the newest value -- which is as close to the "right" value as can be
-determined in this situation.
-
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-
-File format backwards-compatability is the issue. Ideally, old git-annex
-would keep working, ignoring the timestamp.
-
-- uuid.log: "uuid description timestamp" would work; old git-annex
- would just treat the timestamp as part of the description which would be
- ok
- > update: converted! --[[Joey]]
-- trust.log: "uuid trustlevel timestamp" would work; old git-annex
- ignores trailing words
- > update: converted! --[[Joey]]
-- remote.log: "uuid key=value ... timestamp" is on the edge but does work
- (old git-annex will include the timestamp in the key/value map it builds,
- but that should not break anything really)
- > update: converted! --[[Joey]]
-
-Appending "timestamp=xxxxx" would be good for clarity, and make
-it easier to parse the timestamp out from lines that have it.
-
-> [[done]] --[[Joey]]