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. (For backwards compatability, git-annex should treat lines with no timestamp as being timestamped with 0.)